Source: Press Release
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 9 June 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated the Al-Mahdi Mosque in the German municipality Neufahrn, 20km from Munich.
More than 260 guests attended a special reception held at the Oskar-Maria-Graf School including various dignitaries such as Franz Heilmeier, Mayor Neufahrn, Erich Irlstorfer, Member of the Bundestag Freising and Professor Heiner Bielefeldt, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion at the United Nations.
Prior to the ceremony, His Holiness officially inaugurated the Al-Mahdi Mosque by unveiling a commemorative plaque and offering a silent prayer in thanks to God Almighty. 12 white doves were also released into the sky marking a local Bavarian tradition. Thereafter, His Holiness led the Zuhr and Asr prayers at the new Mosque.
Later, the special reception began with a welcome address given by Abdullah Wagishauser, the National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany, during which he informed that the site of the new Mosque had been purchased in 1986 and had thereafter been used as a prayer centre. He said that its conversion into a Mosque begun in 2013.
During his keynote address, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad spoke about the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s continued commitment to promoting interfaith dialogue.
His Holiness said that the community organised events across the world in an effort to foster mutual understanding amongst the people of all beliefs.
As a recent example, His Holiness cited the Conference of World Religions, organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which took place in February at Guildhall in London.
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said:
During the Conference the representatives of various religions spoke about their respective faiths in front of an audience of around 1,000 guests and I also got the opportunity to speak about Islam. The Conference took place in a very peaceful and cordial atmosphere.
Continuing, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said:
The Holy Quran says that there should be no compulsion in religion and so no one has the right to speak ill of any other person’s belief or faith.
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Alhumdo Lillah and hearty congratulations to German Jamaat Ahmadiyya.
We made one more House of God on Earth.
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I felicitate with our brothers and sisters of the Neufahrn,Munich, German jama’at on the occasion of the inaugration of their new Mosque. may Allah make it a source of blessings and peace for the country and its people and a means of proclaming the unity of God.
My heart felt congratulation also goes to our dear Huzoor (may allah strength his hands) for the successful inuguration of this beutiful mosque.