The glass dome
A dome of concrete and glass that seems to open like a bud, letting sunlight into the prayer hall.
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Yes — the mosque welcomes visitors of all faiths outside prayer times, and runs introductory tours explaining the building and the faith. All that is asked is modest dress, removing shoes at the prayer hall, and quiet inside it.
Yes, a great many. The Ehrenfeld district around the mosque has numerous Turkish and Arab restaurants and halal grocery shops. It is one of the easiest parts of Cologne for a Muslim visitor when it comes to food.
An hour covers the mosque and its square, more if you join a tour or pray there. It sits a little away from the old town, so allow about fifteen minutes of travel each way.
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The Cologne Central Mosque is among the largest and best-known mosques in Europe, formally opened in 2018 in the Ehrenfeld district. The German architect Paul Böhm designed it unconventionally: a dome of glass and concrete that appears to open like a bud, with two minarets of about fifty-five metres. The mosque is open to visitors of all faiths outside prayer times, and offers introductory tours. The prayer hall is wide, holding more than a thousand worshippers, with light entering through the glass between the dome's ribs. Around it are a square, shops and a café. For a Muslim visitor it is a place of prayer before it is a landmark; for anyone else it is one of the most important works of modern architecture in Cologne.
A dome of concrete and glass that seems to open like a bud, letting sunlight into the prayer hall.
A wide hall for more than a thousand worshippers, decorated in a modern rather than traditional manner.
An open square around the mosque with shops and a café, in a diverse district with many halal restaurants.
Venloer Str. 160, 50823 Köln