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List of mosques in Germany

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This is a list of mosques in Germany by states. According to the Bundestag researchers, Germany is home to "at least 2,350 to 2,750 mosque congregations or associations". The Central Council of Muslims in Germany announced in early October that there are roughly 2,500 mosques.

Baden-Württemberg

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks
Schwetzingen Park Mosque Schwetzingen 1779 U Oldest mosque architecture in Germany. Non-functional as a mosque.
Mimar Sinan Masjid Mosbach Mosbach 1990s DITIB
Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque Mannheim-Jungbusch 1995 DITIB Capacity: 2.500.
Große Moschee Buggingen 1998 DITIB
Alperenler Masjid Rheinfelden (Baden) 1996 DITIB
Fatih Masjid Heilbronn 1987 IGMG
Mevlana Masjid Eppingen 1996 IGMG
Central Masjid Offenburg Offenburg 2002 DITIB
Bait-ul-Ahad Mosque Bruchsal 2012 AMJ Eisenbahnstraße 8

76646 Bruchsal [1]

Baitul Afiyat Mosque Waldshut-Tiengen 2017 AMJ

Bavaria

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks
Freimann Masjid Munich-Freimann 1973 IZM Foundation stone in 6. October 1967
Bait-un-Naseer Mosque Augsburg ? AMJ https://ahmadiyya.de/gebetsstaette/moscheen/augsburg/ ;Donauwörther Straße 165, 86154 Augsburg
Penzberg Islamic Forum Penzberg 2005 U https://web.archive.org/web/20141223133238/http://www.irsmm.org/content/penzberg-mosque-bavaria-germany
Masjid in Sendling Munich-Sendling 1989 DITIB

Berlin

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks
Wünsdorf Mosque Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1915 U Wilmersdorfer Moschee
The oldest standing mosque in Germany—the Wünsdorf Mosque, built in 1915 at the Halbmondlager POW camp, was Germany's first, but it was demolished in 1925–26.
Berlin Mosque Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1924-1927 AAIIL
Şehitlik Mosque (Berlin) Berlin-Neukölln 2004 DITIB Architect: Hilmi Şenalp; Capacity: 1.550.
Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque Berlin-Kreuzberg 2008 U
Khadija Mosque Berlin-Heinersdorf 2008 AMJ
Fussilet mosque Berlin / Friedrich-Krause-Ufer ? Fussilet 33 e.V.[2]
Ibn Ruschd-Goethe mosque Berlin 2017 Seyran Ateş It is the first liberal mosque in Germany. Burqa and niqāb are banned. Men and women pray together. Women aren't forced to wear a headscarf.[3]

Bremen

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks
Fatih Mosque Bremen-Gröpelingen 1999 IGMG Capacity: 1.300

Hamburg

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks Height Minaret (m)
Fazl-e-Omar Mosque Hamburg-Lokstedt 1957[4] AMJ First mosque built after World War II in Germany 8
Imam Ali Mosque Hamburg-Uhlenhorst 1965[4] Sh Build by Iranian business men 16
Hamburg Central Mosque Hamburg-St. Georg 1977 IGMG 36 to floor
20 steel tower structure[5]
Al-Nour Mosque (Hamburg) Hamburg-Horn 2018 Islamisches Zentrum Al-Nour e.V. - 'Kuwait' Former abandoned church that has been turned into a mosque 44

Hessen

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks
Abu Bakr Moschee Frankfurt am Main 1966 IGF Islamische Gemeinde Frankfurt e.V. one of the biggest mosques in Frankfurt
Noor Mosque Frankfurt am Main 1959 AMJ
Anwar Mosque Rodgau 2008 AMJ
Nuur-ud-Din Mosque Darmstadt 2003 AMJ Haasstraße 1a

64293 Darmstadt[6]

Bait-ul-Baqi Mosque Dietzenbach ? AMJ Theodor-Heuss-Ring 48

63128 Dietzenbach[7]

Baitus Shakur Groß-Gerau 1992 AMJ Biggest Ahmadiyya mosque in Germany. Capacity: 850.
Baitul Huda Mosque Usingen 2004 AMJ
Fatih Mosque Stadtallendorf 2004 DITIB
Bait-ul Aziz Riedstadt 2004 AMJ
Muqeet Mosque Wabern 2007 AMJ
Bashir Mosque Bensheim 2006 AMJ
Baitul Ghafur Ginsheim-Gustavsburg 2011 AMJ Lange Streng 13

65462 Ginsheim-Gustavsburg[8]

Baitul Hadi Mosque Seligenstadt 2011 AMJ
Baitul Baqi Dietzenbach 2011 AMJ
Baitul Aman Nidda 2011 AMJ
Ata Mosque Flörsheim am Main ? AMJ Altkönigstraße 10

65439 Flörsheim am Main [9]

Dar-ul-Amaan Mosque Friedberg ? AMJ Strassheimer Straße 16

61169 Friedberg [10]

Baitus Samad Mosque Giessen 2017 AMJ Marburger Straße 83

35396 Gießen[11]

Bait-ul-Wahid Mosque Hanau ? AMJ Hafenstraße 6

63450 Hanau[12]

Sadiq Mosque Karben ? AMJ Am Spitzacker 18b

61184 Karben[13]

Mahmud Mosque Kassel ? AMJ Graf-Haeseler-Straße 6

34134 Kassel[14]

Mevlana Mosque (Kassel-Oberzwehren) [de][15] Kassel 2014 U

Lower Saxony

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks
Baitus Sami Hannover 2008 AMJ
Salimya Mosque Göttingen 2006 DITIB
Islamisches Kulturzentrum Wolfsburg Wolfsburg ? U Located at Berliner Ring 39, 38440 Wolfsburg. The Imam is Arabic. This mosque attracts all the Muslims in the city, majority of which are Turkish. Official website : http://www.islam-wolfsburg.de/

North Rhine-Westphalia

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks
Alnoor Islamic Zentrum Belecke ? U Maintained by Islamisches Zentrum Belecke
Bilal Mosque Aachen 1964 IZA Maintained by Islamisches Zentrum Aachen
Mansoor Mosque Aachen ? AMJ https://ahmadiyya.de/gebetsstaette/moscheen/aachen/;Feldstraße 47 (im Navi 45)

52070 Aachen

Wesseling Mosque
„Mimar Sinan Camii“
Wesseling 1987 DITIB
King Fahd Mosque Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1995 SA
Baitul Momin Münster-Hiltrup 2003 AMJ
Vatan Mosque Bielefeld-Brackwede 2004 DITIB
Merkez Mosque Wuppertal-Elberfeld ? DITIB
Nasir Mosque Isselburg 2007 AMJ
Hürth Camii Hürth 2004 Ditib
DITIB-Merkez-Moschee Duisburg 2008[16] DITIB 4th largest mosque in Germany, Capacity: 1.200.
Cologne Central Mosque Cologne 2017 DITIB Construction began 2009. The largest mosque in Germany.[17]

Rhineland-Palatinate

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks
Hamd Mosque Wittlich 1998 AMJ Capacity: 600.
Tahir Mosque (Koblenz) [de] Koblenz-Lützel 2004 AMJ

Saxony

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks
al-Rahman Mosque Leipzig 1998 U Website of al-Rahman Mosque as of 09/2020

Schleswig-Holstein

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks
Centrum Masjid Rendsburg Rendsburg 2008 IGMG Capacity: 300; 2 Minarets à 26 m.
Bait-ul-Habib Mosque Kiel 25 August 2004 AMJ https://ahmadiyya.de/gebetsstaette/moscheen/kiel/; Flintbeker Straße 7

24113 Kiel

Thuringia

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Name Images City Year Group Remarks
Ar-Rahman Mosque Gera 2010 U maintained by Ar-Rahman e.V.[18]
Haus des Orients Weimar 2001 U maintained by Haus des Orients e.V.,[19] current Website as of 09/2020

Group

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AAIIL Lahore Ahmadiyya Group
AMJ Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
ATIB Union der Türkisch-Islamischen Kulturvereine in Europa
DITIB Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliği
IGMG Millî Görüş
IZA Islamic Centre Aachen
IZM Islamic Centre Munich
SA Saudi Arabia (Wahhabism)
Sh Shia Islam
TJ Tablighi Jamaat
U Unknown

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Bruchsal - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  2. ^ Heil, Georg (February 22, 2017). "The Berlin Attack and the "Abu Walaa" Islamic State Recruitment Network". Combating Terrorism Center. Retrieved March 28, 2017. Both men also attended prayers at the Fussilet mosque in Berlin, which Amri visited on the day of the attack and where he used to sleep occasionally. The Fussilet mosque is run by an association named "Fussilet 33 e.V.," which had already attracted police attention for suspected Islamic State recruiting.
  3. ^ Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg (12 June 2017). "Frauenrechtlerin gründet Moschee: "Unsere Religion nicht den Rückständigen überlassen" - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Politik". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 2017-06-16.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Ossama Hegazy (2015). "Towards a German Mosque". In Erkan Toğuşlu (ed.). Everyday Life Practices of Muslims in Europe. Leuven University Press. pp. 193–216. ISBN 978-94-6270-032-1.
  5. ^ "Minarte History". 3 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Darmstadt - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  7. ^ "Dietzenbach - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  8. ^ "Ginsheim-Gustavsburg - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  9. ^ "Flörsheim - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  10. ^ "Friedberg - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  11. ^ "Gießen - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  12. ^ "Hanau - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  13. ^ "Karben - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  14. ^ "Kassel - Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland".
  15. ^ "Nach sechs Jahren: Moschee für 3,5 Millionen Euro fast fertig", Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine (in German), 15 May 2014
  16. ^ "Muslim Integration: Why No One Protested against Germany's Biggest Mosque", Der Spiegel, 27 October 2008
  17. ^ "How Recep Tayyip Erdogan seduces Turkish migrants in Europe". The Economist. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  18. ^ "Ar-Rahman e.V., Gera".
  19. ^ "Haus des Orients e.V., Weimar".