Geneva Mosque
Also known as: Geneva Mosque
mosque in Geneva, Switzerland
Key facts
- Built
- 1978
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Overview
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The Geneva Mosque is a mosque and cultural centre at Chemin Colladon 34 in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland. Its Arabic name is al-Markaz al-Islami al-Thaqafi fi Jinif (the Islamic Cultural Centre in Geneva). It is run by the Islamic Cultural Foundation of Geneva (Fondation Culturelle Islamique de Genève). The prayer facilities hold roughly 1,500 worshippers. Its minaret is 22 metres high and is described in one source as the tallest in Switzerland. The building is counted among the largest mosques in the country.
History
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Work on the project began in the mid-1970s and the complex was finished in 1978. Construction cost about 21 million Swiss francs and was funded by the government of Saudi Arabia.
The mosque was inaugurated by King Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz of Saudi Arabia and by Swiss Federal Councillor Pierre Aubert.
From Wikipedia
The Geneva Mosque, also known as the Petit-Saconnex Mosque (French: Mosquée de Genève, Mosquée de Petit-Sacconex) is the largest mosque in Geneva, Switzerland. It was financed by the Saudi-based Muslim World League and constructed in 1978 in the neighborhood of Le Petit-Saconnex.
The mosque was inaugurated by the Saudi Arabian King Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz and President of the Swiss Confederation Willi Ritschard, and is the largest mosque in the city and Switzerland as a whole. The building has space for 1,500 worshippers. It is managed by the Islamic Cultural Foundation of Geneva and the imam of the mosque is Yahya Basalamah.
In November 2017, the secretary general of the Muslim World League Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Issa said that he will constitute a new board of the Islamic Cultural Foundation of Geneva and that two mosque employees, who have been placed by French officials on an anti-terrorism backlist known as “Fiche S” since at least 2012, will be removed from their posts. He said he had ambitions for the Geneva mosque to become a model of dialogue and integration otherwise the MWL would consider withdrawing all support to the mosque.
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Sources
Wikipedia (ar): https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A_(%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81)
Wikipedia (de): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genfer_Moschee
Wikipedia (en): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Mosque
Wikipedia (fr): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosqu%C3%A9e_de_Gen%C3%A8ve
Wikipedia (tr): https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenevre_Camii