Centrum-Moschee Rendsburg, Islamic mosque in Rendsburg, Germany
Centrum-Moschee Rendsburg is a mosque of yellow and white brick that combines oriental elements with North German brick architecture. It has a dome eight metres across and two minarets each 26 metres tall. The prayer room covers 150 square metres and holds 200 worshippers, with a women's gallery for 100 more; the building also houses a youth room, classrooms, a nursery and a room for washing the dead.
The land was bought in 1998 and the foundation stone laid in 1999; the mosque opened on 9 October 2009, with Schleswig-Holstein's then minister-president Peter Harry Carstensen among the speakers. The congregation kept building costs to around 800,000 euros largely through its own labour. Since then it has been the largest mosque in Schleswig-Holstein and, after Bremen's Fatih Mosque, the largest in northern Germany.
The mosque belongs to the Islamisches Zentrum e. V., which is linked to the Islamic Community Milli Görüs (IGMG) and is a member of the Alliance of Islamic Communities in Northern Germany. Its premises include a youth room, a meeting hall, classrooms, a nursery and a room for washing the dead with a cooling chamber. Friday prayers are led by imams who travel from Hamburg.
The prayer room covers 150 square metres and holds 200 worshippers, with a women's gallery for a further 100. The building also houses a youth room, a meeting room, classrooms, a nursery and a room for washing the dead with a cooling chamber. Friday prayers are led by imams travelling from Hamburg, as the post has no permanent holder.
The mosque has had no permanently appointed imam since Hamdi Uygun returned to Turkey in April 2010 over residence-permit problems; imams sent from Turkey by DITIB change constantly, and Friday prayers are led by imams from Hamburg.
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