Järvenpää Mosque Explained

Järvenpää Mosque
Religious Affiliation:Islam
Location:, Järvenpää, Uusimaa, Finland
Tradition:Sunni
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Ownership:The Finnish-Islamic Congregation
Architecture Type:mosque
Established:1942
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Järvenpää Mosque (Finnish: Järvenpään moskeija) is a mosque located in the Finnish town of Järvenpää.[1] [2] It is owned by The Finnish-Islamic Congregation, which members are Finnish Tatars. It was built in the 1940s. The Tatar community together raised the money for it.[3]

In the 1980s in the mosque, Tatars still arranged language and religious teaching for the children of the community. Later, most of the activity has been centered around a few religious occasions, such as Ramadan.

Around the time the Järvenpää mosque was built, a separate Islamic congregation was founded in Tampere by local Tatars.[4] They practice Sunni Islam.[5]

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  1. Web site: Järvenpää Mosque: The first mosque in the Nordic countries . 2022-08-29 . International Media Center . ar-IQ.
  2. Web site: Al Fozan . 2022-08-29 . mosqpedia.org.
  3. Web site: Moilanen. Kaisu. 2015. Suomen ainoa minareetillinen moskeija on Järvenpäässä, ja se kuuluu tataareille (for subscribers). Helsingin Sanomat. fi.
  4. Book: Baibulat, Muazzez. The Tampere Islamic Congregation: the roots and history (in English, Tatar and Finnish). Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy. 2004. 952-91-6753-9. Jyväskylä. 30.
  5. Book: Marjamäki, Kolehmainen, Marja-Leena, Ilkka. Suomen tataarimusiikki (in a book: Tugan Tel - Kirjoituksia Suomen tataareista. 2011. Reporter: Kadriye Bedretdin). Suomen Itämainen Seura. 1980. 978-951-9380-78-0. Helsinki. 355.

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