Kobe Mosque
mosque in Japan
Key facts
- Built
- 1935
- Architect
- Jan Josef Švagr
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Overview
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Kobe Mosque stands in Kitano-chō, the historic foreign quarter of Chūō Ward in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, about a ten-minute walk from Sannomiya Station. The building was completed in 1935 to a design by Jan Josef Švagr and is in the Ottoman architectural style. In Japanese it is also known as 神戸モスク and 神戸回教寺院. Alongside religious ceremonies, it offers courses in Arabic, the Quran and hadith. It is used by Muslims living in the surrounding area as well as by Muslim visitors to Japan.
History
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In the 1930s Kobe was one of the main commercial gateways between Japan and the outside world. Turkish, Tatar and Indian merchants who had settled in the city undertook the construction of the mosque.
The project was funded by donations gathered by the Islamic Committee of Kobe starting in 1928. The mosque opened in October 1935.
From Wikipedia
The Kōbe Mosque (Japanese: 神戸モスク, romanized: Kōbe Mosuku), also known as the Kōbe Muslim Mosque (Japanese: 神戸ムスリムモスク, romanized: Kōbe Musurimu Mosuku, is a mosque located in Kōbe, in the Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan. Founded in October 1935, it is Japan's first mosque. Its construction was funded by donations collected by the Islamic Committee of Kōbe from 1928. The mosque was confiscated by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1943, survived air raids in 1945, and withstood the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995. It is located in the Kitano-cho foreign district of Kobe, one of the city's best-known tourist areas which features many old western style buildings.
The mosque was built in traditional Indo-Islamic style by the Czech architect Jan Josef Švagr (1885–1969), the architect of a number of Western religious buildings throughout Japan.
As of 2024, it was one of 113 mosques in Japan.
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Wikipedia (ar): https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%87
Wikipedia (de): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dbe-Moschee
Wikipedia (en): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Mosque
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Wikipedia (fr): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosqu%C3%A9e_de_Kobe
Wikipedia (id): https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_Kobe
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Wikipedia (tr): https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Camii
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