Eyup Sultan Mosque (Telfs)
The Eyüp Sultan Mosque ( Telfer Mosque ) is the Islamic prayer house of the Austrian mosque community in Telfs . The mosque opened in 1998 and added a 15 meter high minaret (after 29 meters had been planned) in 2006 after a nationally known legal battle . After the Islamic Center Vienna opened in 1979, it is the second mosque to be built in Austria.
Minaret dispute in Telfs
2005 controversially discussed application was ATIB (Turkish Islamic Union for Cultural and Social Cooperation in Austria) of a mosque tower in the construction of the Austrian community Telfs in the media to the minaret dispute Telfs stylized.
course
At the center of the dispute were the mayor of the community Stephan Opperer and the FPÖ politician Gerald Hauser . Parts of the non-Muslim population of Telfs had reservations about the construction of the tower, and a citizens' initiative against the project was founded. The 20-meter-high minaret, which is currently in the planning stage, fully complied with the provisions of the Tyrolean building regulations, which is why Mayor Opperer took the position that there was no legal basis for prohibiting construction. This attitude earned him death threats, among other things. According to media reports, the controversy assumed the dimensions of a “real culture war”. In order to calm the emotionally charged mood in Telfs, it was finally negotiated to build the tower five meters lower. The building permit also included the requirement that loudspeakers attached to the tower should be dispensed with.
After a spray attack on the faith center, the head of the mosque brought incriminating evidence against a 33-year-old blogger, who was then sentenced to an invalid five-month prison term.
Result
In March 2006 a prayer tower was added to the mosque. It is the first minaret to be built in Tyrol .
effect
The minaret dispute made the municipality of Telfs known nationwide and the subject of numerous articles and reports.
The author Felix Mitterer processed the minaret dispute in the 2009 crime scene crime thriller Tree of Redemption , which in Austria was embedded in an ORF theme evening about integration. The thriller was created by its author as a "call to reconciliation". Subsequent to the broadcast of the crime thriller, an episode of "Am Schauplatz" filmed in Telfs was broadcast, reporting on the coexistence of different cultures in this community of 15,000 people, in which 3,000 with a Turkish migration background live. Both locals and immigrants had their say. This was followed by a panel discussion led by the moderator Ingrid Thurnher about integration, especially of Muslims, in Austria.
See also
Web links
- Does Telfs need a mosque with a minaret? , Catholic news service on November 13, 2005 (mosque, opened by the Turkish Islamic Association ATIB in the former rescue home on Gießenweg)
- ORF: Split opinion on the prayer column in Telfs
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comment: Let the mosque in the village , Der Standard on November 14, 2005
- ↑ a b Background: Do mosques have to have minarets? , The press on August 24, 2007
- ↑ "Tatort: Tree of Redemption" - The Döner Saga - Battle of the Cold Doors in front of an Alpine panorama: Tyroleans and Turks fight a murderous religious and mountain war. , Focus on January 5, 2009
- ↑ Spray attack on Telfer mosque causes a stir . ( kurier.at [accessed on January 3, 2018]).
- ↑ "Schimpf- und Hasstiraden" in Telfs - In the "Tatort" a murder in the Tyrolean Telfs is solved - Alfred Schwarz shot a "Scene Special" about the situation two years after the minaret was built. , The standard on January 2nd, 2009
Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '22.7 " N , 11 ° 4' 38.7" E