Omar-Ibn-Al-Khattab Mosque
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| Coordinates : 52 ° 29 '56 " N , 13 ° 25' 36.5" E | |
| place | Berlin-Kreuzberg |
| Laying of the foundation stone | June 2004 |
| opening | 2010 |
| Direction / grouping | AICP (al-Habash; Sunnis) |
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| capacity | 1000 |
| Minarets | 4th |
| Minaret height | 7 m |
| building-costs | 10 million euros |
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| Website: www.ivwp.de | |
The Omar-Ibn-Al-Khattab-Mosque ( Turkish Ömer İbnu'l Hattâb Camii ) is a mosque in Berlin-Kreuzberg . It was sponsored by the Islamic Association for Charitable Projects. V. (IVWP) and opened in 2010. It is located at the intersection of Wiener Straße and Skalitzer Straße at the Görlitzer Bahnhof underground station and is named after the early Islamic caliph and conqueror Omar ibn al-Chattab .
The construction, which began in June 2004, cost around ten million euros and has a small dome and four seven meter high minarets on the roof edge, crowned by gold-plated crescent moons. The prayer hall with a two-story gallery can hold a good 1,000 people. The Maschari Center has seven floors of ballrooms for celebrations, a Koran school, as well as boutiques, cafes and a supermarket.
The IVWP is part of the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects (AICP). The Maschari Center is the German headquarters of the AICP (al-Habash) , an Islamic denomination from Lebanon .
Building history
The branch of the Bolle supermarket chain, originally located on the corner of Skalitzerstrasse, Wienerstrasse and Manteuffelstrasse , was burned down by a serial perpetrator in the slipstream of the Kreuzberg May riot in 1987; after that the site lay fallow and the last remains of the fire ruin were only demolished years later. In early 2004, the Islamic Association for the Promotion of Charitable Projects e. V. obtained a building permit for the fallow property.
The construction work of the sacred building , which remained in the Berlin facade order , was completed in 2008. The comparatively small group among the Islamic organizations in Germany claims to have raised the building costs through loans and donations collected on site. The mosque opened on May 21, 2010.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Lars Törne: District approves controversial mosque . In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 1, 2004, accessed on September 22, 2018.
- ↑ Lars Törne: minarets on Kreuzberg . In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 21, 2007, accessed on September 22, 2018.
- ↑ Orient meets Occident . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 21, 2007, accessed on September 22, 2018.
- ↑ Stefan Strauss: The construction of a mosque causes unrest among the residents: Confusion in the neighborhood . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 25, 2003, accessed on September 22, 2018.