DITIB central mosque Cologne-Chorweiler
The DITIB Central Mosque in Cologne-Chorweiler ( Turkish: Chorweiler Merkez Camii ) is a mosque that was opened in 2008 and is maintained by the DİTİB umbrella organization in the Feldkassel industrial park in Cologne's Chorweiler district .
In 2005, the mosque association DİTİB - Turkish Islamic Community of Chorweiler eV, founded in 2003, bought a former commercial building on Morsestrasse in the Feldkassel industrial area, which belongs to the Merkenich district , which was the seat of a civil engineering company. After a three-year planning and usage change construction period, the Islamic community center with mosque was completed in 2008, which is the first Muslim place of worship in the city district that the Islamic population has sought for 30 years.
Muslims from the nearby districts of Chorweiler and Seeberg are mainly organized in the community. It has around 300 members.
literature
- Britta Fuchs: When the muezzin wants to call. Discourses about a mosque construction project in Cologne's Chorweiler district . Institute for Ethnology, Cologne 2003.
- Ziya Çiçek: About the mosque building in Cologne-Chorweiler . In: Event documentation Muslims and Islam in Europe . Federal Agency for Civic Education, July 2002.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 15 " N , 6 ° 55 ′ 33" E