Nuur Mosque

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Nuur Mosque
Coordinates : 50 ° 5 '8 "  N , 8 ° 41' 47"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '8 "  N , 8 ° 41' 47"  E
place Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen
Laying of the foundation stone May 8, 1957
opening September 12, 1959
Direction / grouping AMJ
Architectural information
Details
capacity 125
Prayer room 57 + 36 m²
Property 1530 m²
Minarets 2
Minaret height 9 m
Website: nuur-moschee.de

The Nuur Mosque ( Urdu مسجد نور DMG Masǧid Nūr , German 'mosque of light' ) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Babenhäuser Landstrasse in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen is the fourth oldest mosque in Germany.

construction

The foundation stone of the Nuur Mosque was laid by the Pakistani UN politician and President of the International Court of Justice, Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan . The Ahmadiyya Mosque was opened by him on September 12, 1959. With a prayer area of ​​around 85 m² it offers space for around 125 believers.

The building contains a prayer room and an adjoining apartment for the Imam as well as an office.

Importance of the mosque

Anniversary logo

The Nuur Mosque is the second mosque to be built in Germany after the Second World War . Two years earlier, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat had also built the Fazle Omar Mosque in Hamburg . It is the oldest mosque in Frankfurt and remained the only visible Muslim-influenced sacral building in the city for three decades.

The mosque community organizes the “ Open Mosque Day ” on October 3rd every year and has around 300 members.

Before the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat acquired the “Nasir Bagh” site in Groß-Gerau in 1985 , the Jalsa Salana (annual meeting) took place in this mosque. For a long time the mosque remained the Ahmadiyya center of southern Germany, where Ahmadi Muslims from Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg celebrated the festival of breaking the fast ( ʿĪd al-fitr ) and the Islamic festival of sacrifice (ʿĪd ul-Adha).

In 1966 the boxer Muhammad Ali went to the church for a prayer before his fight against Karl Mildenberger . In December 2009 the head of the Ahmadiyya attended the 50th anniversary celebrations of the mosque in the Roman's Ratskeller.

Women's guest house

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat has built a women's guest house with six residential units on the site behind the Nuur Mosque. It should "serve the community to accommodate women in emergencies and sometimes be available to accommodate guests of the community, mostly women". The first house of this kind in Germany is financed by the Ahmadiyya women's organization .

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References and comments

  1. ↑ This mosque is being built . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , July 22, 2008
  2. ↑ a b 50 years of Nuur Mosque: Integration Minister Hahn is part of the celebration . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 4, 2009
  3. ↑ until so-called backyard mosques were created by Muslim migrant workers
  4. ↑ Source: Hadayatullah Hübsch
  5. ↑ Picture gallery: Muhammad Ali in the Nuur Mosque: During prayer, during the recitation of the Koran  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ahmadiyya.de  
  6. ↑ 50th anniversary of the Nuur Mosque In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 21, 2009
  7. ^ First women's shelter for Muslim women ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , June 18, 2011