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Westermoskee
Sign in to saveWestermoskee (, ; , ) is a mosque located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is situated on the bank of the canalized river Schinkel in the Chassébuurt in De Baarsjes in the borough of Amsterdam-West. With a floor surface of 800 m2 and a capacity of 1700 people, it is the largest mosque in Amsterdam.
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Vinony's link graph records 250 inbound references to Westermoskee, and connects out to canals of Amsterdam, Amsterdam-Zuidoost and Amsterdam-Zuid.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NH, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under 2015 establishments in the Netherlands, 21st-century religious buildings and structures in the Netherlands and Amsterdam-West.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Religious building.name
- WestermoskeeAyasofya Camii
- Religious building.image
- File:Westermoskee - Amsterdam (26579109769).jpg
- Religious building.caption
- Westermoskee in 2016
- Religious building.map_type
- Netherlands Amsterdam
- Religious building.map_caption
- Location in Amsterdam
- Religious building.location
- Piri Reisplein 101Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Islam
- Religious building.architecture
- yes
- Religious building.architect
- Marc and Nada Breitman
- Religious building.architecture_type
- Mosque
- Religious building.architecture_style
- Amsterdam School/New Classical architecture
- Religious building.groundbreaking
- 2013
- Religious building.year_completed
- 2015
- Religious building.construction_cost
- € 6–7 million
- Religious building.capacity
- 1700 people
- Religious building.minaret_quantity
- 1
- Religious building.minaret_height
- 42 metres
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.westermoskee.org
- Image
- Westermoskee Aya Sofya (Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2017).jpg
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- Commons category
- Westermoskee
- date of official opening
- 2016-04-01
- inception
- 2015-00-00
- native label
- Westermoskee
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Architecture
- References
- External links
Westermoskee (, ; , ) is a mosque located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is situated on the bank of the canalized river Schinkel in the Chassébuurt in De Baarsjes in the borough of Amsterdam-West. With a floor surface of 800 m2 and a capacity of 1700 people, it is the largest mosque in Amsterdam.
== History == The building was designed by French traditional architects Marc and Nada Breitman, winners of the 2018 Driehaus Prize and part of the New Classical movement. Construction started in 2013 and the building was completed in 2015. The mosque was unofficially opened on 1 April 2016.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Westermoskee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
2 mapped locations
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