List of mosques in Germany
The list of mosques in Germany includes mosques and mosque construction projects supported by mosque associations and umbrella organizations.
According to the Central Islam Archive Institute in Soest, there were 206 mosques and around 2600 prayer houses nationwide in 2008, as well as countless so-called “ backyard mosques ”. Another 120 mosques are said to be under construction or in the planning stage. According to the German newspaper Die Zeit, there were around 2,750 mosques and Muslim prayer houses in Germany in July 2016 . In comparison, there are around 45,000 Christian churches and around 130 synagogues in Germany.
The list is neither exhaustive nor representative.
Surname | image | country | City and district | year | carrier | Remarks |
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Mosque Wünsdorf in the half-moon camp | Brandenburg | Zossen near Berlin | 1915 | DR | Demolished: Wooden mosque, built in 1915 for Muslim prisoners of war, demolished in 1925/26 due to dilapidation. | |
Wilmersdorfer Mosque | Berlin | Berlin-Wilmersdorf | 1924 | AAIIL | Oldest still existing mosque in Germany. | |
Fazle Omar Mosque | Hamburg | Hamburg-Stellingen | 1957 | AMJ | First mosque built after World War II. | |
Nuur Mosque | Hesse | Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen | 1959 | AMJ | Oldest mosque in Frankfurt am Main. | |
Abu Bakr mosque | Hesse | Frankfurt-Hausen | 1966 | IGF | One of the largest mosques in Frankfurt. | |
Imam Ali Mosque | Hamburg | Hamburg-Uhlenhorst | 1961 | IZH | Built by Iranian merchants. Islamic Center Hamburg | |
Bilal mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Aachen | 1964 | IZA | Maintained by the Islamic Center Aachen (IZA). | |
Freimann mosque | Bavaria | Munich-Freimann | 1973 | IZM | Laying of the foundation stone on October 6, 1967. Islamic Center Munich . | |
Pasing mosque | Bavaria | Munich-Pasing | 1999 | DİTİB | ||
Centrum Mosque Hamburg | Hamburg | Hamburg-St. George | 1977 | IGMG | ||
Ulu mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Heiligenhaus | 1982 | DİTİB | ||
Eving Selimiye Camii | North Rhine-Westphalia | Dortmund - Eving | 1977 | DİTİB | Mosque has a 24.5 meter high minaret | |
DITIB Iserlohn main mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Iserlohn | 1977 | DİTİB | Diyanet-Turkish-Islamic Culture Association e. V., Iserlohn. Mosque with dome and minaret on 836 m²; about 600 members. | |
Yavuz Selim Mosque | Hesse | Offenbach am Main | 1979 | DİTİB | Location | |
Mimar Sinan Mosque Lauda "Mimar Sinan Camii" |
Baden-Württemberg | Lauda | 1987 | DİTİB | Founded in 1987 at Bahnhofstrasse 1 in Lauda; 1990 Move to Bahnhofstrasse 27 | |
Mosque Wesseling "Mimar Sinan Camii" |
North Rhine-Westphalia | Wesseling | 1987 | DİTİB | ||
Sendling mosque | Bavaria | Munich-Sendling | 1989 | DİTİB | since 1989 in Schanzenbachstraße,
New building was planned at Gotzinger Platz (failed in 2010) |
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Fatih Mosque Werl | North Rhine-Westphalia | Werl | 1990 | DİTİB | First mosque in Germany with a minaret. Fatih Camii, location | |
Mevlana Mosque City Processes | Bavaria | Stadtprozelten -Brasselburg | 1990 | DİTİB | The Mevlana Mosque was opened in 1990. It was a normal residential building that was converted into a mosque. Location | |
Mimar Sinan mosque Mosbach | Baden-Württemberg | Mosbach | 1990s | DİTİB | Architecture with Bavarian-Alpine influences, location | |
Fatih mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Pforzheim | 1990/92 | DİTİB | ||
Koenigswinter Mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Koenigswinter | 1991 | DİTİB | New building with dome added in 2002 | |
Tarik Bin Ziyat Camii | North Rhine-Westphalia | Gelsenkirchen-Hassel | 1992 | IGMG | Islamic Community Gelsenkirchen-Hassel eV Location | |
Bait ul-Shakur | Hesse | Gross-Gerau | 1992 | AMJ | Largest Ahmadiyya mosque in Germany with 850 seats and a minaret (7 m). Location | |
Al-Quds-Mosque Hamburg | Hamburg | Hamburg-St. George | 1993 | "Arab Cultural Association eV". The Al-Quds Mosque gained international attention when it became known after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 that it was used as a meeting place for several of the attackers. Renamed Masjid Taiba in 2009, closed in August 2010. | ||
Bait ur-Rashid | Hamburg | Hamburg-Schnelsen | 1994 | AMJ | Headquarters for Northern Germany | |
Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Mannheim-Jungbusch | 1995 | DİTİB | One of the largest mosques in Germany with 2,500 seats. | |
King Fahd Mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Bonn - Bad Godesberg | 1995 | The King Fahd Academy is a school named after Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz , to which a mosque is attached. | ||
Hicret mosque | Bavaria | Lauingen | 1996 | DİTİB | ||
Alperenler Mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Rheinfelden (Baden) | 1996 | DİTİB | 2003 a minaret supplemented with 20.8 m high local situation | |
Eyup Sultan Mosque (Nuremberg) | Bavaria | Nuremberg | 1996 | DİTİB | Largest mosque in Nuremberg. Mosque association founded in 1976 with around 600 members. Location | |
Big Mosque Buggingen | Baden-Württemberg | Buggingen | 1998 | DİTİB | "Turkish Islamic Association Buggingen", members: 200 places, 500 mosque-goers from a catchment area from Freiburg to Lörrach., Location | |
Ham'd mosque | Rhineland-Palatinate | Wittlich | 1998 | AMJ | 600 places, location | |
Fatih mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | eat | 1998 | DİTİB | ||
Fatih mosque | Bremen | Bremen-Groepelingen | 1999 | IGMG | Third largest mosque in Germany with around 1,300 seats. | |
Emir Sultan Mosque | Hesse | Darmstadt | 1999 | ATIB | "Turkish Islamic Center Darmstadt eV", 300 members. Location | |
Aksa mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Ahaus | 2000 | DİTİB | ||
Bitburg mosque | Rhineland-Palatinate | Bitburg | 2000 | Association for the care of Muslim fellow citizens | ||
Ulu mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Sindelfingen | 2000 | DİTİB | 1200 m², minaret 26 m, | |
Mimar Sinan Mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Maulbronn | 2001 | DİTİB | 750 m², minaret 19 m local location | |
Mevlana mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Constance-Petershausen | 2001 | DİTİB | 225 m², minaret 35 m, | |
Mevlana mosque | Berlin | Berlin-Kreuzberg | 2002 | IGMG | ||
Ayasofya mosque | Berlin | Berlin-Moabit | 2002 | IGMG | ||
Nuur-ud-Din Mosque | Hesse | Darmstadt | 2003 | AMJ | Location | |
Bait ul-Momin | North Rhine-Westphalia | Munster-Hiltrup | 2003 | AMJ | First new mosque in Münster | |
Bait ul-Huda | Hesse | Usingen | 2004 | AMJ | Location | |
Tahir mosque | Rhineland-Palatinate | Koblenz-Lützel | 2004 | AMJ | Prayer rooms 180 and 135 m², 600 members, location | |
Bait ul-Aziz | Hesse | Riedstadt - Goddelau | 2004 | AMJ | Property 1753 m², prayer area 200 m² | |
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat | Hesse | Limburg on the Lahn | 2012 (new building) | DİTİB | New construction of the mosque in Blumenröder Strasse | |
Şehitlik Mosque | Berlin | Berlin-Neukölln | 2004 | DİTİB | Second largest mosque in Germany with 1,500 seats, built by Hilmi Senalp. | |
Fatih mosque | Hesse | Stadtallendorf | 2004 | DİTİB | , Location | |
Vatan mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Bielefeld-Brackwede | 2004 | DİTİB | ||
Mosque of the Islamic Forum Penzberg | Bavaria | Penzberg | 2005 | “Islamic Community Penzberg eV”, 600 members, opening on September 18, 2005, architect Alen Jasarevic location | ||
Mesxhidi Aksa Mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Leverkusen - Küppersteg | 2006 | Albanian carrier location | ||
Al Salam Mosque | Lower Saxony | Wolfsburg | 2006 | The main sponsor of the construction was the ruler of the emirate Sharjah Sultan bin Mohamed al-Qasimi | ||
Bashir mosque | Hesse | Bensheim | 2006 | AMJ | Property 1006 m², prayer area 188 m², 400 members | |
Mimar Sinan Mosque DITIB Sachsenheim | Baden-Württemberg | Sachsenheim | 2007 | DİTİB | On a plot of 2,500 m² there are numerous parking spaces, the club house and the mosque, which together make up an actual usable area of 950 m². The dome is 7 × 3 meters. Location | |
Fatih mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Heilbronn | ? | IGMG | Location | |
Mevlana mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Eppingen | ? | DİTİB | Location | |
Merkez mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Wuppertal-Elberfeld | ? | DİTİB | Location | |
Central Mosque Offenburg | Baden-Württemberg | Offenburg | ? | DİTİB | Location | |
Nasir mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Isselburg | 2007 | AMJ | Location | |
Muqeet mosque | Hesse | Wobble | 2007 | AMJ | First mosque in Germany to be built using clay . | |
Omar-Ibn-Al-Khattab Mosque | Berlin | Berlin-Kreuzberg | 2008 | AICP ( al-Habash ) | “Islamic Association for Charitable Projects” (IVWP), 1,000 places. | |
Bait us Sami | Lower Saxony | Hanover | 2008 | AMJ | Black Heide settlement area | |
Fatih Mosque (Meschede) | North Rhine-Westphalia | Meschede | 2008 | DİTİB | First new mosque in the Sauerland | |
Gottingen mosque | Lower Saxony | Goettingen | 2008 | DİTİB | Location | |
Khadija mosque | Berlin | Berlin-Heinersdorf | 2008 | AMJ | Opened on October 16, 2008, with 500 seats. | |
Kocatepe Mosque and Ingolstadt Cultural Center | Bavaria | Ingolstadt | 2008 | DİTİB | Turkish-Islamic Congregation in Ingolstadt eV founded on May 12th, 1987, opening in Manisa Strasse on May 18th, 2008, 2 minarets of 27.5 meters each, 1000 seats. | |
Chorweiler Central Mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Cologne-Chorweiler | 2008 | DİTİB | Turkish Islamic Congregation zu Chorweiler eV founded on January 3, 2003, opening in the Feldkassel industrial park on August 30, 2008, 500 visitors for Friday prayers. Location | |
DITIB Merkez Mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Duisburg-Marxloh | 2008 | DİTİB | Opened on October 26, 2008, largest mosque in Germany with 1,200 seats. | |
Centrum Mosque Rendsburg | Schleswig-Holstein | Rendsburg | 2008 | IGMG | 100 members (Hamburger Abendblatt), 500 members (Die Zeit), 300 seats (200 + 100), 2 minarets of 26 m each. | |
Anwar mosque | Hesse | Rodgau | 2008 | AMJ | Opened on August 19, 2008 by Mirza Masrur Ahmad . | |
Selimiye Mosque Wertheim "Selimiye Camii" |
Baden-Württemberg | Wertheim-Reinhardshof | 2009 | DİTİB | Since 2009 by converting an old industrial hall into a church in Theodor-Heuss-Straße 37 in the Reinhardshof district of Wertheim; The new building replaced an old mosque in a dilapidated building near the Wertheim sports field | |
Mëshira mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Bonn -Zentrum | 2010 | Albanian-Islamic Cultural Association Bonn | ||
Ehsaan mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Mannheim-Neckarau | 2010 | AMJ | Property 1641 m², prayer area 208 m², two minarets each 12 m high | |
Bait ul Ghafur | Hesse | Ginsheim-Gustavsburg | 2011 | AMJ | Property 2725 m², prayer area 352 m², 400 places for 250 members | |
Bait ul-Hadi | Hesse | Seligenstadt | 2011 | AMJ | The modular mosque was completed within three months. | |
Bait ul-Aman | Hesse | Nidda | 2011 | AMJ | Land 2189 m², prayer area 301 m² | |
Bait ul-Baqi | Hesse | Dietzenbach | 2011 | AMJ | Land 1500 m², prayer area 318 m² | |
DITIB Central Mosque Cologne | North Rhine-Westphalia | Cologne-Ehrenfeld | 2018 | DİTİB | The foundation stone was laid on November 7, 2009. The mosque has 1,200 places | |
Buyuk Mosque | Berlin | Berlin-Spandau | ? | Turkish carrier location | ||
Fatih mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Ravensburg | ? | "Islamischer Bund Ravensburg eV" location | ||
Mevlana mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Ravensburg | ? | DİTİB | Turkish-Islamic Cultural Association Ravensburg eV (1986) Location | |
Ennigloh Mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Bünde - Ennigloh | ? | DİTİB | Association of Turkish Workers Location | |
Kocatepe Mosque | Hamburg | Hamburg-Bergedorf | 2008 | DİTİB | Opened September 2008; Location | |
Eyup Sultan Mosque | Bavaria | Gersthofen | 2008 | DİTİB | ||
Ayasofya mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Neuss - Norf | ? | DİTİB | Location Panoramio | |
Habesi mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Welzheim near Stuttgart | 2008 | DİTİB | ||
Ar Rahman Mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Meckenheim | 2010 | Moroccan community location | ||
Sehitler Merkez Mosque | Baden-Württemberg | Schwäbisch Gmünd | 2011-2014 | DİTİB | Mosque building with 1000 seats and an attached community center. Has dome and minaret. | |
Al-Nour Mosque | Hamburg | Hamburg Horn | 2013 | Islamic Center Al-Nour | Former Kapernaum Church (Hamburg-Horn) , opened in October 2013 | |
Mahmud mosque | Hesse | Kassel- Niederzwehren | AMJ | Location | ||
Mevlana mosque | Hesse | Kassel- Oberzwehren | 2014 | DİTİB | New mosque with 32.25 m high minaret. The first section of the intercultural foundation complex is currently under construction. Architect Salim Yüksel
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Bait ul Wahid Hanau | Hesse | Hanau Mainhafen Hanau | 2015 | AMJ | Former Aldi market in Hafenstrasse has been converted into a mosque | |
İmamı Azam Camii | Bavaria | Röthenbach on the Pegnitz | 2015 | DİTİB | ||
Ibn Rushd Goethe Mosque | Berlin | Berlin | 2017 | Ibn Rushd Goethe Mosque | ||
Emir Sultan Camii Mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Hilden | 1999 | DITIB Turkish Islamic Community in Hilden eV | Location | |
Ar-Rahman Mosque | North Rhine-Westphalia | Hilden | 2013 | Islamic-Moroccan Association | Location |
See also
Commons : Mosques in Germany - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- List of mosques in Europe
- Orientalism (art) to mosque-style buildings
- Dome, minster and cathedrals in German-speaking countries
- Islam in Germany
- Islam in Europe
- Mevlana mosque
- List of religious buildings in Germany
Web presences of mosques and mosque associations
- ↑ Berlin mosque community
- ↑ Fazle Omar Mosque in Hamburg
- ^ Nuur Mosque in Frankfurt am Main
- ↑ Islamic Community Frankfurt eV Abu Bakr Mosque Frankfurt (IGF)
- ↑ Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH)
- ↑ Islamic Center Aachen (Bilal Mosque) eV (IZA)
- ↑ Islamic Center Munich (Freimann Mosque) (IZM)
- ↑ Islamic Community Gelsenkirchen-Hassel ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 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.
- ↑ Baitul-Shakoor (Nasir-Bagh)
- ^ Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque
- ↑ DITIB-Hicret Mosque , on moschee-lauingen.de
- ^ Christian-Islamic Association Hochrhein eV
- ↑ DITIB Nuremberg ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2011 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.
- ↑ Turkish Islamic Center Darmstadt eV ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 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.
- ^ DITIB Sachsenheim
- ↑ Khadija Mosque
- ↑ DITIB Ingolstadt
- ^ DITIB Chorweiler
- ↑ DITIB Duisburg
- ↑ Islamic Center Rendsburg
- ↑ Cologne Central Mosque
- ↑ IGDM Berlin
- ^ Turkish-Islamic Cultural Association Ravensburg eV (1986)
- ↑ Kocatepe Cami-Bergedorf
Individual evidence
- ↑ How much mosque can the country take? , Die Welt on October 21, 2008
- ↑ Muslims in Germany: This is a mosque. In: Die Zeit , No. 30/2016, July 14, 2016, online version from July 25, 2016, accessed on November 9, 2018
- ↑ Further images in the Federal Archives , search term: Halbmondlager
- ↑ Further images in the Federal Archives , search term: mosque on Fehrbelliner Platz
- ↑ Turkish Islamic Culture Association e. V., Iserlohn. DITIB Iserlohn main mosque . Retrieved November 12, 2011.
- ^ Yavuz Selim Mosque: Islam uff Hessisch ( Memento from May 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Frankfurter Rundschau on April 21, 2009
- ↑ Mimar Sinan Camii Lauda: About Us . Online at www.msclauda.wordpress.com. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ^ Moscheesuche.de: Mevlana Camii Stadtprozelten . Online at moscheesuche.de. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ↑ Visit to Mosbach mosque ( Memento of May 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), on rsobrigheim.de
- ↑ Bavaria on the Web: Hicret Mosque Lauingen ( Memento from March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Christian-Islamic Association Hochrhein eV: Mosque pictures , mosque history
- ↑ Freiburg-Schwarzwalt.de ; South Baden's Muslims invite you to the Open Mosque Day
- ↑ Bitburg Mosque
- ↑ Mosques in Germany , PDF file, p. 25, on bundestag.de, accessed on June 9, 2020
- ↑ Visit to the Tahir Mosque , on heinersdorf-oeffne-dich.de
- ↑ Hasan Basri Okan's working day begins exactly 40 minutes before sunrise ( memento of the original from May 8, 2009 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. , Oberhessische Presse on September 18, 2008
- ^ Islamic Forum Penzberg
- ↑ Penzberg Glass Mosque
- ↑ Even the minaret is celebrated. The architect of the mosque reports from his experiences. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from March 20, 2009
- ↑ Penzberg: Photo at night ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Photo by day ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; qantara.de : Penzberg Glass Mosque: Out of the Back Yards ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2009 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.
- ↑ Turkish-Islamic Culture and Sports Association DITIB Sachsenheim e. V.
- ↑ Göttingen city information - mosque
- ↑ Project: Cultural Center ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Meeting place for Germans and Turks , Donaukurier on May 18, 2008
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↑ Turkish Islamic Congregation to Chorweiler eV
FDP-Cologne: Mosque in a former warehouse - ↑ Mosque, so what? , The time on January 31, 2008; Minarets over Rendsburg - hardly anyone gets upset , Hamburger Abendblatt on December 3, 2007
- ↑ Offenbach Post on April 12, 2011
- ↑ Ditib Mosque in Cologne, Place of Prayer, Place of Power , on deutschlandfunk.de, accessed on June 9, 2020
- ↑ IGDM-Berlin - Mosque ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Panoramio - Buyuk Mosque
- ^ Bergedorf - Mekka der Toleranz , TAZ on February 6, 2007; New construction of a retail park with mosque in Hamburg-Bergedorf
- ↑ Welzheim Mosque Bilal-i Habesi
- ↑ alnour-moschee.com
- ↑ Uta Keseling: Everyone prays together in the Ibn Rushd Goethe mosque . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed on June 18, 2017]).
- ↑ Ibn Rushd Goethe Mosque | Berlin. Retrieved June 18, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Emir Sultan Camii Mosque, Hilden 1933
- ↑ Christoph Schmidt: Hildens new mosque is now finished, Rheinische Post May 16, 2013