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Photo Exhibition: "Mosques in Germany"

on Sunday 12 April 2009


In Germany more and more mosques - Character religious self-awareness and successful integration, a source of fierce controversy. The photographer Wilfried Dechau traveled last year by Germany to the worship of Islam in the context of German Stadtbilder noted that their internal architecture, the Friday prayers, imams, children, men and women. In March and April, the Goethe Institute, the result of his photo-reportage in from Jakarta.

In the Cologne district of Ehrenfeld in 2010 created a mosque, whose construction, mainly due to the planned height of the minarets in the city controversial. Residents feared a Überfremdung their neighborhood, the right citizens' movement "Pro Cologne" made front against the "big mosque." In August 2008, the City Council, despite all the construction. Two months later, opened in Duisburg, the largest mosque in Germany with almost no protests. The Merkez Mosque is now in Europe as a flagship model of successful religious integration.

The mosques in Duisburg and Cologne are only two examples in the past year were discussed. In Germany there are now 206 mosques and about 2600 Bethäuser, most were already in the seventies. Some 120 mosques in Germany, are currently being built or are planned.

The Stuttgart Wilfried Dechau photographer traveled in March and April 2008 by Germany and photographed mosques in the context of German Stadtbilder: their interior design, the Friday prayers, imams, children, men and women in the prayer houses. The photo reportage was born in Pforzheim, Penzberg, Mannheim, Wolfsburg, Aachen, Karlsruhe, Hamburg and Stuttgart.

In Indonesia, where Muslims, about 90 percent of the population, shows the Goethe-Institut Jakarta from 1 to 14 April 2009 jointly with the Islamic University of Paramadina in the exhibition "Mosques in Germany" Sixty Dechaus pictures from photo reportage. The pictures are also a cause for discussion: At the panel "The Role of Islam in Germany: History, Present, Future" talks among others Prof. Dr. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, director of the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig, about religious freedom and the Islamic life in Germany. Other topics of discussion are human rights and tolerance.

Following the presentation in Jakarta, the exhibition goes on tour to Malaysia, Singapore, India, Turkey and the Middle East. The exhibition will be the catalog "mosques. Mosques "with contributions, inter alia, by Claus Leggewie, Lamya Kaddor and Christoph Welzbacher when Wasmuth Verlag.

1 comments:

NewBie said...

Hem hem, Jerman kayak gitu yah...
Alhamdulillah...