Noor Mosque
The Noor Mosque ( Urdu مسجد نور, DMG Masǧid Nūr, Mosque of Light ) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in the Babenhäuser Landstrasse in Frankfurt -Sachsenhausen is the third oldest mosque in Germany.
Construction
The foundation of Noor Mosque was established by the UN Pakistani politician and President of the International Court of Justice Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan. The mosque was opened on September 12, 1959 by him. It offers a prayer area of about 85 square meters of space for about 125 worshipers.
The building includes a prayer room and an attached apartment for the imam and an office.
Importance of the mosque
The Noor Mosque is the second mosque, which was built after the second world war in Germany. Two years earlier, also the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat had built in Hamburg, Fazle - Omar Mosque. It is the oldest mosque in Frankfurt and stayed for over three decades the only visible Muslim religious building of the city.
The mosque community held annually on October 3, the " Open Mosque Day " and has around 300 members.
Before the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community bought the site " Nasir Bagh " in Groß- Gerau in 1985, the Jalsa Salana (annual gathering) was held in this mosque. For a long time remained the mosque, the Islamic Center of Southern Germany, where Muslims from Hesse, Bavaria and Baden- Württemberg the feast of breaking the fast ( Eid al - fitr ʿ ) and the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice ( Eid ul- Adha ʿ ) committed.
1966 investigated the boxer Muhammad Ali before his fight against Karl Mildenberger on the church for a prayer. In December 2009, the Head of the Ahmadiyya attended the anniversary celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the mosque in the basement of the Roman Council.
Mrs. Guest House
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat has built on the site behind the Noor Mosque, a woman guest house with six residential units. It should be " community internally the accommodation of women serve in emergencies and sometimes to accommodate guests of the community, mainly women, are available ." The first house of its kind in Germany is financed by the women's organization of the Ahmadiyya.