Cologne - Central Mosque

Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany - and one of the oldest. A Germanic tribe, the Ubii, had a settlement here, this was named by the Romans "Oppidum Ubiorum". In 50 AD, the Romans founded "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium", the city then became the provincial capital of "Germania Inferior".

The new mosque is the largest mosque in Germany and has been criticized for its size, particularly the height of the minarets (55m).

Already before the Cologne City Council voted to approve the construction in 2008, a fiery controversy had started, that finally took the local dispute into a national debate about the place of Islam in Germany.