Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque
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| place | Mannheim-Jungbusch |
| Laying of the foundation stone | 1992 |
| opening | 1995 |
| Direction / grouping | DİTİB |
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| capacity | 2,500 |
| dome | 1 |
| minaret | 1 |
| Minaret height | 35 m |
| building-costs | 10 million DM |
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| Website: http://www.ditib-ma.de/ | |
The Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque was between 1993 and 1995 in the Mannheim district Jungbusch built. It is named after Sultan Selim I , called "Yavuz" (= the "Gestrenge", the "Cruel"). Until the opening of the Merkez Mosque in Duisburg-Marxloh in 2008, it was the largest mosque in Germany.
history
Due to the high demand of the economy for workers, Mannheim took on many guest workers from the mid-1950s . Initially, numerous Italians came, and after the recruitment agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey in 1961, there were also many Turks and thus for the first time a significant number of Muslims . From 1972, the Islamic Bund Mannheim operated a prayer hall in a back courtyard in square G7, 18 in the western lower part of the city center .
After the district was declared a redevelopment area by the city of Mannheim in 1984 and there were conflicts with the neighborhood on public holidays due to loud calls to prayer and a lack of parking spaces, a new location was sought. Born out of the insight that the image of the “guest worker” returning to his home country after a while no longer corresponded to reality, the desire arose to build a representative mosque. In 1989 the city made a piece of rubble land available in the nearby Jungbusch district opposite the western lower city, which had been fallow since the Second World War . The location led to heated discussions at times because the two districts with the highest proportion of migrants in Mannheim and an intensification of the ghetto formation were feared.
The building permit was only granted in 1992 and the foundation stone was laid on February 12th the following year. After two years of construction, the mosque was opened on March 4, 1995. The planning came from Mehmed Bedri Sevinçoy from a Dutch architecture office, project manager was Hubert Geißler. The construction costs amounted to ten million D-Marks, which were raised almost exclusively by donations from Mannheim citizens. After a relatively short time, the reinforced concrete columns of the minaret showed cracks, so that in 2005 a new one, now narrower and three meters higher, was built.
The mosque is sponsored by Mannheim Ditib Yavuz Sultan Selim Camii eV To promote dialogue, the Christian-Islamic Society Mannheim was founded in 1994 under the direction of the pastor of the neighboring Catholic Church of Our Lady . In 1996 the Institute for Integration and Interreligious Dialogue affiliated with the mosque was founded to develop the “Open Mosque” project. The pastor of the Protestant port church took over the chairmanship of the supporting association . Between 1995 and 2008, around 250,000 citizens attended a tour. Bekir Alboğa , the representative for interreligious dialogue of the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion (DİTİB), was for a long time an imam and head of the Mannheim Institute. Today Talat Kamran is the head of the Mannheim Institute.
description
The Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque is located in the eastern Jungbusch on the inner city ring, which is also part of the busy Bundesstraße 44 , in the immediate vicinity of the Church of Our Lady . The mosque is a domed building with a 35 meter high minaret . It is framed by two buildings with three apartments each, which create a connection to the neighboring buildings. Round stairwells lead from the buildings to the mosque. The motif is repeated in the form of columns on the ground floor, where shops are located. Above it is a triangular bay window, which visibly shows the prayer niche to the southeast towards Mecca . Inside the ground floor there is a meeting room, classrooms and the ritual washroom with a marble fountain.
Two stairs lead to the first floor of the prayer room reserved for men. A gallery protruding far into the room is intended for the women. The hall holds a total of 2,500 people, including 500 in the women's gallery. It is spanned by the dome, which is decorated with calligraphy . Small triangular windows are set into the wall. Next to the prayer niche ( mihrab ) facing the Kaaba in Mecca is the stepped pulpit for Friday prayers ( mimbar ). There is also a pulpit for lectures and lectures (Kursi). A tulip-shaped crystal chandelier was a gift from the Christian churches and the Jewish community . The floor plan of the mosque is remarkable, in contrast to most mosques worldwide it is not rectangular or square, but round.
portal
Washroom
pulpit
Friday pulpit
literature
- Andreas Schenk: Cultural buildings of other religious societies . In: Mannheim and its buildings 1907–2007. Volume 3: Buildings for education, cult, art and culture . Edition Quadrat, Mannheim 2002, ISBN 3-923003-85-4 .
- Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Reimer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-496-01201-3 .
- City of Mannheim, Michael Caroli, Ulrich Nieß (ed.): History of the city of Mannheim . Volume 3: 1914-2007 . Regional culture publisher, Heidelberg / Ubstadt-Weiher / Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89735-472-2 .
- Michael Landgraf: Salam Mirjam: An encounter with Islam. Wiesbaden: Marix, 2008 ISBN 978-3-86539-188-9
Web links
- Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque
- Mannheim Institute for Integration and Interreligious Dialogue
- Schader Foundation : The long way to the Mannheim Mosque ( Memento from August 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler, Claus Leggewie: Mosques in Germany: religious homeland and social challenge . Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58423-7 , p. 119.
- ↑ Mannheimer Morgen , July 7, 2005
- ^ Ditib Mannheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 38 " N , 8 ° 27 ′ 41" E