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Young Muslims listen to a Turkish imam during Friday prayers at the Turkish Kuba Camii mosque located near a hotel housing refugees in Cologne's district of Kalk, Germany, Oct. 14, 2016.
Open Mosque Day has been held in Germany on October 3 every year since 1997. This year, about 1,000 mosques across Germany opened their doors to bring Muslim and non-Muslim people together. The ...
Ultimately, as history demonstrates, it is German Muslims themselves, and not the imams who lead them in prayer, who will determine if this is the case. (Brian Van Wyck, ...
Authorities in Germany’s fourth-biggest city last year cleared the way for mosques to apply for permission for the muezzin to call for a maximum five minutes between noon and 3 p.m. on Fridays ...
2004-07-17 04:00:00 PDT Munich-- Recent raids by German police on four mosques have broken a longstanding political taboo in this country against antagonizing the nation's powerful "Muslim vote ...
Three mosques in Germany have received packages and letters in recent days that contained racist threats against Muslims, officials said on Monday. The Turkish-Muslim group DITIB, which runs the ...
The first mosque in East Germany to have visible Islamic architecture is soon to open in Erfurt, in the Central state of Thuringia. But it’s already become a target for Islamophobic acts ...
Islam in Germany: Berlin Mosque Where Burqas Are Banned and LGBT Muslims Welcome Defies Fatwa. Published Jun 26, 2017 at 7:10 AM EDT Updated Jun 26, 2017 at 7:35 AM EDT.
On Monday, German authorities announced that they closed down the Taiba mosque in Hamburg. The mosque achieved infamy as home to several of the 9/11 plotters under its previous name -- Al Quds.
German police have raided one of the country’s oldest mosques in a crackdown on Islamic extremist groups with links to the Iranian regime. On Wednesday morning, police officers in balaclavas ...
Muezzin Mustafa Kader recites the call to prayer at the Cologne Central Mosque in Cologne, Germany, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. The Islamic call to prayer is set to sound for the first time from one of ...
BERLIN — The Islamic call to prayer was sounded in public for the first time from one of Germany’s biggest mosques on Friday, but at limited volume, as part of a project agree… ...