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Eastern Germany’s First Big Mosque — “Probably Easier To Get A Nuclear Plant Built”

A photo of workers assembling the components of an eight-meter-heigh minaret prayer tower using a crane, part of the newly constructed Ahmadiyya mosque in Thuringia, Germany.
Workers assemble the components of a minaret using a crane, part of the newly constructed Ahmadiyya mosque in Thuringia, Germany. Michael Reichel/ZUMA

The first mosque in East Germany to have visible Islamic architecture is soon to open in Erfurt, in the State of Thuringia. But it’s already become a target for Islamophobic attacks, including pig heads and wooden crosses tossed on the premises.

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