List of church buildings and shrines rededicated in mosques

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The conversion of church buildings and shrines into mosques began in the early phase of Islam , during the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and continued later during the Islamic conquests .

A former Greek church in North Nicosia, which was conquered by Turkey, which has been converted into a "Şehitler Mosque"

Consequences of the transformations

Numerous Hindu temples , churches , synagogues , Zoroastrian temples, in modern times also temples of the Baha'i and other shrines, were converted into mosques. These transformations lead to political disputes to this day. B. in Israel or also in India. In India, more than 2000 people died because of such a conflict in Ayodhya in 1992. In his work Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them, the Indian Ram Goel already lists around 2000 mosques from a Hindu nationalist point of view that were built in places of earlier Hindu temples.

Several such structural conversions in mosques in Muslim or formerly Muslim-ruled countries have since been reversed. In addition, some of these buildings have been converted into museums, such as B. the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul , Turkey. In non-Islamic countries, new mosques are being built today through the purchase of secularized buildings or former secular buildings from other religions.

Some of the most popular such conversions include:

Middle East, Islamic Countries

Egypt

Algeria

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Israel and Palestine

Libya

Turkey

Istanbul:

Hagia Sophia was the most important church in Byzantine Orthodox Christianity. It was converted into a mosque after the Islamic conquest. It has been a museum since 1932

Adana:

Ani:

Antalya:

  • Kesik minaret

Ayvalik:

Bagbasi:

Barhal:

Gaziantep:

Iznik:

Kars

Tarsus:

Trabzon:

Van:

Saudi Arabia

Syria

Cyprus

India and Far East

India

Indonesia

Europe

Albania

Germany

  • New Apostolic Church in Berlin-Tempelhof
  • Methodist Church in Mönchengladbach
  • Evangelical Emergency Church Johannes, Kielstrasse, Dortmund, now Merkez Camii (DITIB)
  • Kapernaum Church (Hamburg-Horn)

France

Greece

Montenegro

Spain

Hungary

United Kingdom

United States

See also

literature

  • Michael R. Fischbach: Jewish property claims against Arab countries . Columbia University Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-13538-2 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Richard M. Eaton: Temple desecration and Indo-Muslim states. In: Lloyd Ridgeon (ed.): Islam and religious diversity. Critical concepts in Islamic studies. Volume 3: Eastern religions. Routledge, New York, NY 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-68009-7 , pp. 35-68.
  • Sita Ram Goel [and a.]: Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them. Voice of India, New Delhi 1991. Volume 1, ISBN 81-85990-49-2 . Volume 2, 81-85990-03-4. ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Koenraad Elst: Ban this Book ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.voiceofdharma.com 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. . In: The Observer of business and Politics. New Delhi, December 1, 1993. Book review, accessed September 25, 2012.
  2. ↑ Compare also in the English Wikipedia the article en: Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them .
  3. ↑ Houses of God: Churches Become Mosques , Tagesspiegel, October 5, 2007.
  4. ^ Marion Menne: Whirling around church sales ( Memento from May 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), WDR, June 25, 2012.