Alperenler Mosque

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Alperenler Mosque

The Alperenler Mosque is a mosque built in 1996 in Rheinfelden (Baden) . It is affiliated with the umbrella organization Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DITIB).

history

The industrial city of Rheinfelden has had a Turkish - Islamic community since the 1960s , which today has around 1000 members.

On October 26, 1986, the Turkish-Islamic Community of Rheinfelden was founded with the approval of the court by some Muslims from Turkey who lived in Rheinfelden . Your first place of prayer with six to seven rooms was in the barracks of the power transmission works Rheinfelden (KWR, today Energiedienst AG ) in the Rheinfeld industrial area Schildgasse. In 1987 the board of directors of the association was formally elected for the first time. Thanks to membership fees and donations, it was possible to purchase today's 2,000 m² property in the industrial park for 180,000 DM.

Schopfheim civil engineer Joachim Wetzel created the construction plans free of charge. Ali Hafizoğlu's French construction company created the shell, which could be completed by 1996 with the help of members of the DITIB and many volunteers as well as machines from the Rheinfeld contractor Willi Henke. In 2003/2004, the mosque was supplemented by a minaret with a height of 20.8 m, also financed only by donations and membership fees.

In autumn 2009, the mosque made international headlines: a member of the board had, contrary to an express requirement of the city administration in the building permit, which he was not aware of, had three loudspeakers installed on the minaret, which were used to call for Friday prayers . After a citizen of Rheinfeld complained to the mayor shortly afterwards, the regional press first reported. Since this incident took place in the run-up to the vote in nearby Switzerland on the Federal People's Initiative “Against the Construction of Minarets” , the Swiss and German media in particular took up the incident, with some false reports. The letters to the editor and the sometimes extremely polemical, probably mostly not written by local people, in the online forum of the Rheinfeld local edition of the Badische Zeitung, reached record levels. However, the conflict was quickly resolved through the cooperation of the city administration, the Christian-Islamic Association of the Upper Rhine and the Turkish-Islamic Association, which immediately dismantled the loudspeakers.

On the night of May 2, 2010, unknown perpetrators carried out an attack on the mosque by throwing in several windows and spraying swastikas and other slogans on the facade . On the night of May 22, 2010, several discs with stones were thrown in again.

building

Prayer niche of the Alperenler Mosque

The room plan of the mosque consists of a prayer room (for men and women on a gallery), a classroom (Koran school), an office, a lounge, a group room for women, a meeting room (used by the Turkish sports club, among others), and a Turkish grocery store and an apartment for the Imam's family . There was also a minaret in 2004 .

The ceramic tiles, chandeliers, carpets, the prayer niche and the pulpit used in the construction of the mosque come from Turkey, the marble used from Italy.

use

In the mosque there are primarily prayers. Some of them are called to by the minaret in a human voice: weekly for Friday prayers and on major Islamic holidays. In addition, Koran lessons as well as general religion and ethics lessons for children take place in the rooms, as well as tutoring on weekends and during school holidays. A Koran course for women is held three days a week, and if necessary also for men and German Muslims. In addition, the Turkish football club organizes sports evenings and offers young people various leisure activities. The women's group looks after guests, cleans the mosque and organizes sociable women's rounds.

Relatives of deceased Muslims are supported with the formalities for a burial on the Islamic grave field of the Rheinfeld city cemetery (the first in the entire district of Lörrach) or for transportation to the home country. Advice on organizing Islamic weddings and circumcision ceremonies in the mosque is also offered if needed .

The mosque also serves as an information point for messages from the Turkish Consulate in Germany and the Presidium for Religious Affairs to the Muslim community.

For religious and ethics lessons at schools in Rheinfelden and the surrounding area, for confirmation and adult groups, there is a range of mosque tours and an introduction to the world of Islam. People who want to convert to Islam are also given advice.

Christian-Islamic Association of the Upper Rhine

On April 16, 1999, the Christian-Islamic Association Hochrhein eV was founded with headquarters in Rheinfelden, which is supported by the city of Rheinfelden in addition to the religious communities and aims to promote mutual information and coexistence between the Christian denominations and the Islamic community in Rheinfelden. The association is a member of the coordination council of the Christian-Islamic dialogue .

Web links

Commons : Alperenler Mosque Rheinfelden (Baden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rheinfelden: Trouble about loudspeakers on the minaret , Badische Zeitung , October 12, 2009.
  2. ↑ Swastikas and Stones - Attack on Mosque , Badische Zeitung, May 2, 2009 (advance notice of the online edition).
  3. ↑ New attack or chaos? , Badische Zeitung, May 22, 2009

Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '24 "  N , 7 ° 47' 38"  E