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El Tawheed Mosque
Mosque in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The El Tawheed Mosque is a Sunni mosque in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The mosque is on Jan Hanzenstraat in the Old-West section of Amsterdam. Aside from its normal function, the mosque is used for social work, and for lessons in the Arabic language. It also houses a book store and a publisher of religious videos and DVDs.
The mosque was in-part funded by the Saudi non-governmental organization al-Haramain Foundation.[1]
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History
The mosque was established in 1986.[2]
Islamism association
The mosque at one time had been cited by the Dutch government as a potential propagator of extremism.[3] Mohammed Bouyeri the killer of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh attended the mosque.
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