It's a construction site in the middle of nowhere, or rather in an industrial area located at the beginning of the Meinau district, not far from the Racing Club stadium in Strasbourg.
Rue de la Fédération, the immense 9,600 square meter building reveals its neo-Ottoman architecture, inspired by the mosques of Istanbul, with its domes, the last of which has just been installed.
The Millî Görüs association acquired this industrial wasteland of several hectares in the 1980s to install a first prayer room in an old hangar.
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“There was no reaction
(to the announcement of the launch of the site)
, the first homes being found far from the business area.
In the sector, there are only companies ”
, notes an elected official, recalling that the mosque project, which subsequently became that of the largest Turkish mosque in Europe, had been mentioned in 1996. But in the At the time, attention was focused on the project of the great mosque of Strasbourg, of Moroccan obedience,
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