Mosque in Sendling

The Mosque in Sendling is a mosque located on Schanzenbachstraße, in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The mosque was completed in 1989 as an Islamic prayer house mainly for Turkish Muslims.

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Mosque in Sendling
The mosque in 2005
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Mosque
Status	Active
Location
Location	Sendling, Munich, Bavaria
Country	Germany
Interactive map of Mosque in Sendling
Coordinates	48°07′05″N 11°33′05″E
Architecture
Type	Mosque
Style	Modern
Completed	1989
Capacity	130 worshippers
Website
ditib.de (in German)

Name and organisation

The official name of the mosque is the German Turkish-Islamic Center for the Institute for Religion (Turkish: Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Merkezi; abbreviated as DITIM), and is also designated to the mosque association, to which 42 members and their families belong. The association is linked to the federation Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliği (DITIB), and stands under the supervision of the Turkish president for Religious Affairs Diyanet İşleri Bakanlığı.

DITIB also selects the imam of the mosque, who usually speaks little German and is a civil servant of the Turkish state.

DITIB also operates two other mosques in Munich, in Passing, and Allach. The Schanzenbachstraße Mosque is the biggest of the three mosques in Munich, and is laid out for approximately 130 visitors. This has proved in practice untenable, as at peak times, up to 700 visitors come to pray.

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Plan to build a new mosque

DITIB submitted plans in 2004 for a change to the building, which caused resistance among people living near the building. DITIB worked with the City of Munich to help find a suitable place for a new building, at Gotzinger Place, opposite the Roman Catholic church. However, those new building plans were also attacked, and the press have covered the arguments since Spring 2005.^[1] Designed by Walter Höfler, a local architect, upon completion the new mosque minarets are expected to be 40 metres (130 ft) tall; that is some 14 metres (46 ft) shorter than the steeples of the adjacent church.^[2]

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Mosque in Sendling

Name and organisation

Plan to build a new mosque

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