Baitus Sami, Ahmadiyya mosque in Hanover, Germany
Baitus Sami is an Ahmadiyya mosque in Hanover's Stöcken district, on a 2,800 m² plot by a road to an industrial estate outside the Schwarze Heide settlement. It has a dome and an 18-metre minaret that is not used for the call to prayer. The prayer hall holds 700 worshippers, though the community counts about 300 members.
The Ahmadiyya community in Hanover rented rooms above a supermarket in 1991 and moved to a rented house in Ahlem in 1998. Construction of Baitus Sami began in November 2005 on a 2,800 m² plot outside the Schwarze Heide settlement. Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the community's caliph, inaugurated the mosque in August 2008 as part of the Ahmadiyya 100-mosque project.
The name Bait us-Sami means "House of the All-Hearing". A murrabi, a special educator of the Ahmadiyya community, serves here, since Islam has no priesthood. The congregation has been based in Hanover since 1980, met above a supermarket from 1991 and moved to a rented house in Ahlem in 1998; it counts 300 members, 100 of them children.
The mosque is located in an industrial area close to residential neighborhoods, making it accessible to visitors. Keep in mind that this is an active place of worship where prayer times are observed.
The minaret is 18 metres tall but is not used for the call to prayer, and it is too slender to be climbed. The mosque belongs to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat's 100-mosque project, and a murrabi, a community educator rather than a priest, serves here.
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