Tahir Mosque, Ahmadiyya mosque in Koblenz, Germany.
The Tahir Mosque in Koblenz-Lützel is a domed mosque with two minarets, each 15 metres tall. Built from 2002 to 2004 as the seventh mosque of the Ahmadiyya 100-Mosque Plan, it is the first representative Islamic sacred building in Koblenz and holds more than 500 worshippers.
The Ahmadiyya community had a prayer room from 1987, serving around 220 members. The mosque was built between 2002 and 2004 as the seventh mosque of the 100-Mosque Plan and opened on 23 May 2004 by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the fifth Khalifat ul-Massih. It was Koblenz's first representative Islamic sacred building.
The name Tahir means "the pure" in Urdu, and the mosque is named after Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth caliph of the Ahmadiyya community. The roughly 220 members who had prayed in a room since 1987 now worship in a hall built for more than 500. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland K.d.ö.R. administers the site.
The mosque stands in Koblenz-Lützel, in the north of the city on the left bank of the Rhine. The prayer room holds more than 500 people, so Friday prayers fill the hall. The Ahmadiyya community had only a prayer room from 1987 until the new building was ready.
The mosque is named after Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth caliph of the Ahmadiyya community, and was the seventh mosque built under the movement's 100-Mosque Plan between 2002 and 2004. Its two minarets each rise 15 metres.
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