Islamic Center Vienna

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Islamic Center Vienna in the 21st district
Main portal of the center

The Islamic Center Vienna is a mosque in the 21st Viennese district of Floridsdorf in the Bruckhaufen settlement at Am Bruckhaufen 3 . It is the first ever mosque to be built in Austria.

mosque

The mosque was built from 1975 to 1979 by builder Richard Lugner on behalf of the Saudi Arabian King Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz . The minaret is 32 meters high, the diameter of the dome is 20 meters. Facilities for maintaining Islamic culture are connected to the center.

The Islamic Center was opened on November 20, 1979 in the presence of the then Austrian Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger .

The director of the Islamic Center is a member of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Vienna. The Islamic Center is the Muslim World League ( Muslim World League received), which mainly from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is financed.

During the symposium “The Unease with Religion” of the Institute for Religiosity in Psychiatry & Psychotherapy on June 18, 2011, Gregor Henckel-Donnersmarck , a high Catholic dignitary, gave a lecture in the Vienna mosque for the first time.

Image gallery

  • Southwest view of the center

  • West view of the center

  • Large prayer room of the mosque

  • Vestibule of the mosque

See also

literature

  • Josef Peter Schuller: The hidden mosque. On the Visibility of Muslim Prayer Rooms in Vienna , ed. Ulrike Bechmann / Wolfram Reiss: Application-oriented religious studies, contributions to social and political issues , Volume 4, Tectum, Marburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8288-3177-3

Web links

Commons : Islamisches Zentrum Wien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Background: Do mosques have to have minarets? , The press on August 24, 2007
  2. ↑ www.wien.info - Islamic Center, Mosque ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.info
  3. ↑ See also the media coverage, for example in Zeit im Bild (ORF) on November 20, 1979. - On the 30th anniversary in Vienna Today (ORF regional program) on November 20, 2009.
  4. ↑ The Islamic Center Vienna ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. islam-landkarte.at, Ednan Aslan , Islamic Religious Education University of Vienna @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.islam-landkarte.at
  5. ↑ MWL Centers Around The World: Islamic Center in Austria ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. themwl.org, Muslim World League @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / themwl.org
  6. ↑ The discomfort with religion.

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 42 "  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 51"  E