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Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque

Berlin, Italy

Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque

The Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque (German: Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-Moschee; Arabic: مسجد ابن رشد - جوته) is a mosque in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It is the only self-described liberal mosque in the country and the first in the world. Founded in June 2017 by Seyran Ateş, a German lawyer and Muslim fe

minist of Turkish and Kurdish descent, the mosque was named in honour of medieval Andalusian-Arabic polymath Ibn Rushd and German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The liberal mosque bans face-covering, allows women and men to pray together, and accepts LGBT worshippers.

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