Selimiye Mosque Wertheim
| Selimiye Mosque Wertheim | |
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| Coordinates : 49 ° 45 '11.1 " N , 9 ° 29' 42.5" E | |
| place | Wertheim |
| opening | 2009 |
| Direction / grouping | DİTİB |
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| Couple | 0 |
| Minarets | 0 |
The Selimiye Mosque in the Reinhardshof district of Wertheim has been an Islamic house of prayer for mainly Turkish Muslims since 2009 . The official name of the mosque is Selimiye Camii Wertheim in Turkish ( German : Selimiye-Moschee Wertheim ). It bears its name in memory of the " Sultan's Mosque in Edirne ". The mosque is run by the Mosque Association Turkish-Islamic Community of Wertheim e. V. , which is a member of the umbrella organization DİTİB .
history
Prehistory: The old Wertheim mosque
In the 1970s, the growing glass industry in Wertheim recruited new workers from Turkey. The city became home to many of these guest workers, and with them the Muslim community of Wertheim grew. For several years from 1979, the Wertheim Muslims used a derelict factory building near the Tauber Stadium as a mosque.
New mosque construction and the conflict in mosque construction
After the Wertheim Muslims lived in the second and third generation in Germany, the desire for a newly built mosque grew so that they could practice their faith in an appropriate environment. After lengthy negotiations with the city of Wertheim and some disputes with citizens' groups and residents, the building and site plans changed several times. In addition, the repeated construction plans after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 came at an unfavorable time when prejudices against Muslims were being voiced more quickly, especially since some of the attackers had previously visited the Hamburg al-Quds mosque , which was closed in 2010.
Based on the planned new mosque in Wertheim, the right-wing populist Federal Association of Citizens Movements was founded in 2003 . V. (BDB), which initially tried to prevent new mosques from being built in the city and later set itself the goal of networking all Islamophobic groups across Germany and preventing new mosques from being built elsewhere. As a result, the Wertheim mosque construction conflict attracted nationwide media attention and was the subject of a documentary film in 2007 with the title “Home advantage - Mosque construction in Wertheim”, which was broadcast on SWR television under the title “Mosque, no thanks!” And the longstanding conflicts between the Muslim community of Wertheim with individual residents, citizens and the BDB. The BDB existed until 2008, after which it merged with the association Pax Europa to form the right-wing populist citizens' movement Pax Europa .
The entire conflict over a new mosque in the small Franconian town of Wertheim lasted more than 20 years. The Muslim community finally decided not to build a completely new mosque with a minaret and dome and instead acquired an old industrial building in the Reinhardshof district of Wertheim, which was converted into a mosque by 2009.
Location, architecture and equipment
Mosque in the Reinhardshof district
The mosque can hardly be recognized from the outside as a mosque, as a dome and a minaret were dispensed with after a compromise. The property is located at Theodor-Heuss-Straße 111 in the Reinhardshof district of Wertheim and is surrounded by factory buildings and a general residential area.
Interior picture gallery
- Views of the Selimiye Mosque Wertheim
Room of ritual ablution
( wudoo ' )
Place of prostration
( masjid )
Mosque kitchen
Common room
Funeral prayer place
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Mosque community
society
The mosque association Turkish-Islamic Community in Wertheim e. V. is a member of the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion e. V. (DİTİB). The umbrella organization DİTİB represents over 960 municipalities nationwide.
Church life
Apart from prayer in Arabic , German and Turkish are predominantly spoken. Prayers are held daily, with Friday prayer being particularly important .
Imams
- Since 2018: Ismail Arici
Movie
- "Home advantage - building a mosque in Wertheim". Germany 2007. 60 minutes. TV documentary. Südwestrundfunk . Director: Jan Gabriel.
literature
- Regina Kruse: Policy Discourses on the Construction of Mosques in Germany . disserta-Verlag 2016, pp. 80–97 (Chapter: 4.1.1 Wertheim ).
Web links
- Selimiye Camii Wertheim on the website moscheesuche.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Moscheesuche.de: Selimiye Camii Wertheim . Online at moscheesuche.de. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e SWR: Young Documentary 2009: Mosque, no thanks! The pros and cons of building a mosque . Documentary film about the mosque construction conflict in Wertheim. Online at www.swr.de. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
- ↑ Focus: GERMANY. September 11th Mosque . August 9, 2010. Online at www.focus.de. Accessed January 30, 2018.
- ↑ ARD: ARD program overview: mosque, no thanks! . September 7, 2012. Online at www.programm.ard.de. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
- ^ Pax Europa: History of the BPE . Online at www.paxeuropa.de. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
- ^ Qantara.de: Mosque construction conflict in Franconia. Home advantage for those who oppose mosques . 2009. Online at qantara.de. Accessed January 30, 2018.
- ↑ DITIB: Foundation and structure . Online at www.ditib.de. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ↑ Main-Echo: Creating a meeting place for young people of all nationalities and religions . October 4, 2018. Online at www.main-echo.de. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
- ^ Filmportal.de home advantage - building a mosque in Wertheim. Germany 2007. TV documentary . Online at www.filmportal.de. Retrieved September 30, 2017.