Selimiye Mosque Lünen

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Selimiye Mosque Lünen
View from Roonstrasse
Prayer room

The Selimiye Mosque , which belongs to the DITIB and is operated by the “Turkish Islamic Community of Lünen eV”, is located on Roonstrasse in Lünen- Mitte and was opened on March 30, 2008 after nine years of construction in the presence of the then President of the State Parliament, Regina van Dinther . At that time it was the largest mosque in North Rhine-Westphalia. The construction costs amounted to approx. 3 million euros. 2,400 square meters of floor space are available, 640 square meters of which is a prayer room for men and women. There are rooms for youth work and women's groups, a tea room and a large parking lot in front of the mosque.

The outside of the mosque has a Turkish-Islamic shape with a minaret . The exposed building material, concrete, gives the building a modern, sober face. The interior is richly decorated with mosaics and calligraphy. In the center of the interior under the dome there is a fountain, above it a 450 kilogram chandelier with over 100 lamps. The mosque has a women's area on the gallery. There is no public call to prayer. According to information from moscheesuche.de, around 500 believers take part in Friday prayers.

The construction in Lünen led to some fierce disputes. Immediately after the start of the approval process, conflicts arose in the district and beyond. A collection of signatures against the building of the mosque was organized, the CDU parliamentary group voted against the building, while the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen supported it. Some of the supporters received anonymous threats. After the building permit from the city administration, three residents took action against the building permit at the administrative court. The process ended with a settlement: the building permit was confirmed, but conditions were agreed that restricted the use of the mosque and parking lot.

Spatial direction of prayer

Muslims pray in the direction of the Kaaba , the central shrine in Mecca (see prayer direction in mosques ). However, a mistake in the planning of the Lüner mosque meant that the orientation of the building and the associated direction of prayer clearly missed the city of Mecca. The cause of the error is not officially confirmed. It is assumed, however, that the new building was designed according to a two-dimensional map of the world, which shows a heavily distorted image of the three-dimensional globe. A Mercator card could have been used in the planning .

literature

  • Thomas Schmitt, Mosques in Germany, conflicts over their construction and use, RESEARCH ON GERMAN LANDESKUNDE Volume 252, Flensburg 2003
  • Turkey Yearbook of the Center for Turkish Studies 2000/2001, LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, ISBN 3825854086

Web links

Commons : Selimiye Mosque Lünen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The name Selimiye Mosque ( Turkish Selimiye Camii ) goes back to the " Sultan's Mosque in Edirne " built by the Ottoman court architect Mimar Sinan under Selim II in 1568–1575 . Selim means “perfect”, “safe”, “flawless”. (see also list of Selimiye mosques )
  2. ↑ cf. Turkey Yearbook of the Center for Turkish Studies 2000/2001, p. 169ff.
  3. ↑ cf. Turkey Yearbook of the Center for Turkish Studies 2000/2001, p. 170
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Schmidt-Sielex: Direction Mecca? . In the "Monday pages" of April 14, 2008, visited on March 10, 2013.

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 49 ″  E