Freimann mosque

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Freimann mosque

Freimann Mosque rear front

Coordinates : 48 ° 12 '37 "  N , 11 ° 38' 3"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '37 "  N , 11 ° 38' 3"  E
place Schwabing-Freimann
Laying of the foundation stone October 6, 1967
opening 1973
Direction / grouping IZM
Architectural information
architect Osman Edip Gürel, interior designer Necla Gürel
Details
capacity 450
minaret 1
building-costs 3 million deutschmarks

Website: islamisches-zentrum-muenchen.de

The Freimann Mosque was built from 1967 to 1973 as the seventh mosque in Germany and the first mosque in Bavaria in the Fröttmaning district of Munich's Schwabing-Freimann district .

history

The foundation stone was laid on October 6, 1967, the inauguration on August 24, 1973. The construction work quickly came to a standstill due to a lack of financial resources. In 1968, the mosque and cultural center were only in the shell. The first Ramadan festival took place on November 20, 1971 in the still unfinished mosque. In 1973, Libya finally gave Libya the funds it needed to complete. The construction costs of around 3 million German marks were financed by fourteen Islamic states, 1.6 million of which came from Libya. The planning was carried out by the architect Osman Edip Gürel together with his wife, the interior designer Necla Gürel. The mosque was designed as a parabolic shell construction with a free-standing, 33 meter high minaret . The client and sponsor is the Islamic Community in Germany eV , IGD for short. The prayer room seats 450 people, 100 of them in the women's gallery.

meaning

As the seat of the Islamic Center in Munich , the mosque played an essential role in political Islam in Europe and is therefore one of the most important mosques of all. Originally, it was supposed to act as a link to the Islamic world during the Cold War, based on joint plans by Gerhard von Mendes and the Federal Intelligence Service , in order to weaken Soviet communism politically. With the support of the US secret service CIA , the Muslim Brotherhood around Said Ramadan finally prevailed against the German plans and took over the management of the mosque-building project. The mosque became a meeting point for Muslim Brotherhood from all over the world. Even Mahmoud Abouhalima , one of the masterminds of the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 , attended the Freimann mosque regularly. Like Mamduh Mahmud Salim, known as Abu Hadscher , a close confidante of Osama bin Laden , he regularly sought contact with the local Imam Ahmed al-Khalifa. In recent years, the mosque has been the target of police raids and investigations into suspected criminal acts in favor of Islamic endeavors.

literature

Web links

Commons : Freimann Mosque  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Editor Joachim Gaertner in the ARD program Titel, Thesen, Temperamente from February 27, 2011: Munich, one of the most important mosques in the world! How Islamic fundamentalism came about with the help of the Nazis and the CIA. No more access
  2. Gaertner, ARD broadcast, see above
  3. ^ For example, on March 10, 2009: Raid in the mosque in Freimann Abendzeitung , March 10, 2009
  4. ^ Review of the book by Matthias Küntzel , engl. Original, 2010.