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A community that gathered before it had a building, and moved its prayer from street to street.

The Moving Prayer

A community that gathered before it had a building, and moved its prayer from street to street.

Card 4 of 48 · The Moon · Leiden

Why this image

A small wooden boat glides along a canal between tall brick houses at first light, and its sail is a patterned rug in cobalt, ivory and terracotta. The prayer is on the move. Leiden's first Turkish mosque left the Hooigracht and has been on the Curaçaostraat since 1992 1. The Stichting Moslimgroep Leiden was founded in 1978, seven years before that first mosque opened 2. Al Hijra moved after some thirty-six years to the Ter Haarplein, where the first official Friday prayer was held on 6 April 2018 3, and Imam Malik began in a former taxi garage before its new mosque opened in 2012 4.

What it draws on · 4

First Turkish Mosque & ISN Mimar Sinan Mosque

de verhuizing

The community did not stay on the Hooigracht: since 1992 it has been on Curaçaostraat as the ISN Mimar Sinan Mosque, named after the sixteenth-century Ottoman chief architect Mimar Sinan. The building there was renovated in 2010.

Sources · 2
  • Open Monumentendagen Leiden — audiogids Mimar Sinan Moskee
  • ISN Mimar Sinan Moskee Leiden
Former Islamic Center Leiden (ICL), Now Al Hijra

de Moslimgroep

The Stichting Moslimgroep Leiden, of which the Islamic Centre Al Hijra is part, was founded in 1978 — seven years before the city's first Turkish mosque opened. The community organised itself before it had a building.

Sources · 2
  • Islamitisch Centrum Al Hijra Leiden — alhijra.nl: 'De Stichting Moslimgroep Leiden ... werd opgericht in 1978'
  • Open Monumentendagen Leiden — audiogids Mimar Sinan Moskee: opening eerste Turkse moskee 1985
Former Islamic Center Leiden (ICL), Now Al Hijra

zesendertig jaar

The community stayed there about thirty-six years. 'After the arrival of the second and third generation a great need arose for more space and facilities', the centre writes itself, and in 2018 it moved to a new building on the Ter Haarplein. The first official Friday prayer was held there on 6 April 2018.

Sources · 2
  • Islamitisch Centrum Al Hijra Leiden — alhijra.nl: verhuizing 2018, tweede en derde generatie
  • Nederlandstalige Wikipedia — Moskee Al Hijra: eerste officiële vrijdaggebed 6 april 2018
Foundation Islamic Center Imam Malik

van taxigarage tot moskee

The association was first housed in a former taxi garage on the Bonairestraat, but that building became too small for the number of people coming in daily. On 15 June 2012 the new mosque opened at Nieuwe Marnixstraat 80, designed by the architect Gerard Rijnsdorp.

Sources · 2
  • Nederlandstalige Wikipedia — Islamitisch Centrum Imam Malik: opening 15 juni 2012, architect Gerard Rijnsdorp, voorheen Bonairestraat
  • ICIM Leiden — icimleiden.nl

Shares its places with · 6

Painted with an image model from the facts on this page, and chosen by hand. City in Motion.

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