Tour of the City

The new mosque, built by the Islamischer Bund (Islamic Society) Mannheim e.V. and the largest mosque in Germany to date, was officially opened on March 4th 1995 in the Jungbusch, a district of Mannheim, after two years of construction. It has a capacity of about 2,500. Mannheim itself has approximately 20,000 Moslem inhabitants. The building cost about 10 million DM, which was donated by Mannheim Moslems. The site on which the mosque stands incorporates an area of 1,209 square metres. Aside from 50 underground car park spaces there are 6 business premises, one executive room, facilities for young people and women, a picture gallery, an Institute for German-Turkish Integration Studies, as well as an ornate ritual washing-room with a fountain.

On the first floor there are four class-rooms and four apartments of 80 square metres each. Every visitor is impressed by the round prayer hall, which is situated in the middle of the first floor, with its gallery and its elaborate calligraphy and artistically decorated dome. A 32.5 metre tall minaret rounds off the mosque.

The address of the Institute for German-Turkish Integration Studies: 
Institut für Deutsch-Türkische Integrationsstudien Moschee 
Luisenring 28 
68 159 Mannheim 
Tel. and Fax: 0621-105990 or 14714.

You can receive further information about the pilot scheme "Open Mosque" 
from the Representative for non-German Residents, Mr. Claus Preißler. 
E-mail: 
claus.preissler@mannheim.de