Gdańsk mosque
The Gdansk Mosque is a Sunni mosque in the Polish port city of Gdansk . It is the only mosque in Poland that has a minaret . After the foundation stone was laid in 1984, the building was completed in 1990 as the country's third mosque. In addition to Muslim guests from abroad, Tadeusz Gocłowski , Archbishop of Danzig, and Lech Wałęsa , then Chairman of Solidarność and from December 1990 President of Poland, took part in the opening ceremony . In October 2001, Walesa's successor, President Aleksander Kwaśniewski , visited the mosque.
In recent years, unknown perpetrators have committed acts of vandalism at the Gdansk mosque, the last time in July 2012 and October 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.tvn24.pl, July 19, 2012 (Polish)
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- Agata S. Nalborczyk: Mosques in Poland, past and present (Engl.)
- Official homepage of the Gdańsk Mosque
Coordinates: 54 ° 23 ′ 36.8 ″ N , 18 ° 34 ′ 19.9 ″ E