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Berlin Muslim Mission and the Berlin Mosque

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The Plan for an Islamic Centre

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In February of 1920, Indian Muslim political activist Pro. Abdul Jabbar Kheri met a German Muslim, Dr. Khalid Banning and began to consider the prospects of setting up an Islamic Centre in Berlin. While he considered this with Dr. Khalid Banning, Pro Abdul Jabbar Kheri received letters originally written to the Imam of the Woking Muslim Mission of England from a German lady suggesting the opening of a mission in Berlin following the basis of the Woking Muslim Mission of the Shah Jehan Mosque. His brother, Pro. Sattar Kheri sent the letters out to the Imam of the Mosque at Woking, Maulana Mustafa Khan and from there it reached the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha'at-i-Islam Lahore). The purview and the viability of the plan was considered and eventually accepted by the Lahore Movement.

The Need For The Propagation of Islam in Germany

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In May 1922, the Mohammadan, a popular English newspaper in India, published an article with the title "The Need for the Propagation of Islam in Germany". The article was written by Pro. Abdus Sattar Kheri, a Indian Muslim political activist living in Berlin. He and his brother, Pro. Abdul Jabbar Kheri, were known as the Kheri Brothers and were the ones that initiated the idea of setting up an Islamic centre in Germany. They both played a significant role in leading the organization of Muslims in the German capital in the early 1920's.

Structural Details about the Mosque

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Length 46.5 feet
Width 46.5 feet
Dome 75 feet
Two Minarets 90 feet
Two Minarets on both

sides of mosque

25 feet
The image depicts the minarets pertaining to the Berlin Mosque behind snowy tree branches during the wintertime.
A clear upclose of one of the minarets of the Berlin Mosque. The image above shows a keel-arched openings around the minaret with a dome-like feature above them.

References

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Citations

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  1. “Berliner Moschee, Germany.” Archnet, https://next.archnet.org/sites/14801.
  2. RIZVI, KISHWAR. The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East. University of North Carolina Press, 2015, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469621173_rizvi.
  3. Terrell, Robert Shea. “Building the Berlin Mosque: An Episode in Weltpolitik.” Contemporary European History, vol. 30, no. 1, 2021, pp. 46–59., doi:10.1017/S0960777320000454.
  4. Structurae. “Ahmadiyya Mosque (Berlin-Wilmersdorf, 1928).” Structurae, Structurae, https://structurae.net/en/structures/ahmadiyya-mosque.
  5. Ahmad, Nasir. “Die Berliner Moschee .” AAIIL, https://aaiil.org/german/historyofberlin/90thanniversaryofBerlinMosque.pdf.