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General Information

Completion: 1935
Status: in use

Project Type

Structure: Dome
Function / usage: Mosque
Material: Reinforced concrete structure

Location

Location: , ,
Coordinates: 34° 41' 46.19" N    135° 11' 16.53" E
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Technical Information

Materials

building structure reinforced concrete

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Kobe Mosque (神戸モスク, Kōbe Mosque), also known as Kobe Muslim Mosque (神戸ムスリムモスク, Kōbe Muslim Mosque), was founded in October, 1935 in Kobe and is Japan's first mosque. Its construction was funded by donations collected by the Islamic Committee of Kobe from 1928 until its opening in 1935. The mosque was confiscated by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1943. However, it continues to function as mosque today. It is located in the Kitano-cho foreign district of Kobe. Owing to its basement and structure, the mosque survived the air raids that laid waste to most of Kobe's urban districts in 1945 and was able to endure through the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. The mosque is located in one of Kobe's best-known tourist areas, which features many old western style buildings.

The mosque was built in traditional Indian style by the Czech architect Jan Josef Švagr (1885–1969), the architect of a number of Western religious buildings throughout Japan.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Kobe Mosque" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    20004414
  • Published on:
    26/07/2002
  • Last updated on:
    16/05/2015
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