Germany: Ahmadiyya mosque built with latest, efficient prefabricated elements

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In Hesse the Ahmadiyya are the first Muslim community to be recognized as a corporate body and are therefore legally equal to churches.

The around nine meter tall minaret on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Mosque in Friedberg is not completed yet. Foto: picture-alliance/dpa

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Source/Credit: Idea.de
By Ideaa.de | June 3, 2014

Frankfurt am Main (Germany) – The Ahmadiyya Community is engaged with two new mosques in Hesse: On June the 7th the community is inaugurating a new mosque for over 160 people in Friedberg (Wetterau). Part of the mosque is a nine-meter tall minaret and a dome with a diameter of five meters.

On the same day the community is laying the foundation stone for a new mosque with 120 spaces in 15 kilometer away Karben near Frankfurt am Main.

The unique aspect of the new construction in Friedberg is its building technique, said the chairman of the construction and property department of the Ahmadiyya Community in Germany, Farzan Khan (Frankfurt am Main) to the evangelic news agency idea. The mosque was constructed as an element building from prefabricated constructs. There are only four such constructions in the whole of Germany. “The shell of the building was standing within a day”, informed Khan.

An element building company in North Rhine-Westphalia produced the building blocks. That saved time and money. In individual cases a mosque can be built with less than half a million Euro. In addition, the religious community is reconstructing a former Aldi-store into a mosque in Hanau. In Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as in Vechta in Lower Saxony there are currently further mosque building projects.

In Hesse the Ahmadiyya are the first Muslim community to be recognized as a corporate body and are therefore legally equal to churches. This status leads to more trust in collaborations with the authorities all over Germany, said Khan.

The spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya community, the 5th Caliph, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (London) is expected for the inauguration in Friedberg. In Germany the Ahmadiyya supports over 200 communities with a total of around 35 000 members. 38 communities have mosques.

The Ahmadiyya Community was founded in 1889 in India as a pacifistic reform movement within Islam. Their followers are persecuted partly violently in Islamic countries.

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