Mosque of rome

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Mosque of rome
Interior of the prayer hall
View from the east

The Mosque of Rome ( Italian Moschea di Roma ) is located in the north of the city at the foot of Monte Parioli , in the area of Acqua Acetosa , and is one of the largest mosques outside the Islamic countries. The central prayer hall can accommodate around 2500 worshipers.

The mosque is the seat of the Centro Culturale Islamico d'Italia (Islamic Cultural Center Italy) and thus not only a religious meeting place, but also offers cultural and social services for Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Weddings, funerals, exegeses and other religious events are held.

construction

The mosque was jointly donated by the exiled Afghan prince Muhammad Hasan of the House of Baraksai and his wife Razia Begum. The construction was financed by Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz , then head of the Saudi royal family and thus guardian of the holy places . The mosque was designed by Paolo Portoghesi , Vittorio Gigliotti and Sami Mousawi.

The construction time was more than ten years: the city council of Rome donated the land in 1974, but the foundation stone was only laid in 1984 in the presence of the Italian President Sandro Pertini . The inauguration finally took place on June 21, 1995.

The mosque was built with a built-up area of ​​13,800 m on an approximately triangular plot of approximately 30,000 m². The central prayer hall measures 60 by 40 meters, its central dome with a diameter of 21.6 meters is surrounded by 16 smaller domes. The building is stylistically assigned to postmodernism and takes up elements of the baroque architecture of Rome as well as the Islamic building tradition .

organization

The current imam of the mosque is the Egyptian Ala 'al-Din Muhammad Isma'il al-Ghobashi. Abd Allah Ridwan heads the Islamic Cultural Center. Former imams were:

  • 1983–1993: Muhammad Nur al-Din Isma'il
  • 1993-2006: Mahmud Hammad Shwayta
  • since 2007: Ala 'al-Din Muhammad Isma'il al-Ghobashi

See also

Web links

Commons : Mosque of Rome  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ashraf Salama: Rome, Italy. Mosque & Islamic Cultural Center (PDF). Technical Review Summary, 2001 at masjed.ir (accessed January 10, 2016)
  2. ↑ Paolo Portoghesi. Moschea e Centro culturale islamico. Data sheet from ArchDiAP (Italian, accessed January 10, 2016)
  3. ↑ BBC-News on August 22, 2007: Rome halts mosque conversion work
  4. ^ The Mosque of Rome. IslamiCity.com (accessed January 10, 2016)

Coordinates: 41 ° 56 '5.2 "  N , 12 ° 29" 42.8 "  E