Noor Mosque, Islamic prayer center in Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt, Germany
The Noor Mosque is a prayer center featuring two minarets rising to approximately 9 meters and blending traditional Islamic design with contemporary elements. Inside, a prayer hall accommodates roughly 125 worshippers, with an attached residential building adjacent to the main structure.
The foundation stone was laid by Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, then president of the International Court of Justice, and he inaugurated the mosque on 12 September 1959. It was the second mosque built in Germany after the Second World War, two years after the Fazle-Omar Mosque in Hamburg, and remained Frankfurt's only visible Muslim place of worship for over three decades.
The name Nuur means "light" in Urdu. Each year on 3 October the community holds an open mosque day, and the congregation numbers around 300 members. Before 1985, when the Ahmadiyya acquired the Nasir Bagh site in Groß-Gerau, the Jalsa Salana annual gathering met here, and members from Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg celebrated Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha in this building.
The building is located in the Sachsenhausen district on Babenhäuser Landstraße and is easy to find. Visitors should check prayer times in advance and wear appropriate clothing when entering to show respect for the space.
In 1966, before his fight against Karl Mildenberger, boxer Muhammad Ali visited the mosque to pray. The visit came seven years after Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan opened the building on 12 September 1959.
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