Strasbourg Mosque: Difference between revisions
Ctruongngoc (talk | contribs) m The Mosque is achieved |
m Bot: Migrating 1 interwiki links, now provided by Wikidata on d:q3115094 |
||
| Line 26: | Line 26: | ||
[[Category:Mosques in France]] |
[[Category:Mosques in France]] |
||
[[Category:Religious organizations established in 1982]] |
[[Category:Religious organizations established in 1982]] |
||
[[fr:Grande mosquée de Strasbourg]] |
|||
Revision as of 09:44, 20 March 2013
48°34′23.0″N 7°44′13.8″E / 48.573056°N 7.737167°E
The Strasbourg Mosque ("Great Mosque of Strasbourg"), known in French as "La Grande Mosquée de Strasbourg", a large purpose-built building in the Heyritz area, south of the Ile de Strasbourg. It was inaugurated in September 2012.
It is designed by Paolo Portoghesi,[1] who also designed the Rome Mosque. The design competition included a futuristic proposal by Zaha Hadid.[2]
Construction was delayed several times, due to litigation with the main constructors and a decision by the centre right municipal council of Fabienne Keller to prevent overseas funding.[3]
The new mosque has a capacity of 1200 people.[4] The first stone of the new mosque was laid on 29 October 2004 by the then Mayor of Strasbourg Fabienne Keller.[5] Mrs Keller also revised the original building project, removing the planned study centre, auditorium and minaret and reducing the capacity of the prayer room by 50%.[6]
It is frequented by Muslims of North-African, mainly Moroccan origin. It hosts many conferences and seminars and has an extensive teaching programme for school-aged children.
The former Mosque, in use from 1982 to 2012, consisted of a converted foie gras factory in the Impasse de mai in the centre of Strasbourg, near the law-courts.[7] It was not the first mosque to be established in Strasbourg. There have been mosques in the city since 1967 and there are now over twenty.
External links
References
- ^ For Strasbourg, an Italian designer Mosque, Daily Star, Lebanon, 14 January 2005
- ^ Zana Hadid's design at the Victoria and Albert Museum
- ^ Le Point, 18 April 2009
- ^ Future Grande Mosquée de Strasbourg, article of 24 May 2009
- ^ A giant mosque for Strasbourg, Brussels Journal, 1 April 2008
- ^ Steven Erlanger: "A pro-church law helps a mosque, New York Times, 6 October 2008
- ^ Histoires de mosquées, Schiltigheim : Editions Kalina, 2004, ISBN 2-914888-04-X
