The mosque was actually built at the instigation of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, whose traditions go back to 1889 in India. It purports to revive Islam in its original peaceful form.
Source/Credit: Inside Zurich
By Inside Zurich | June 24, 2013
The Mahmood Mosque in the city's Forchstrasse is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week and on Saturday it opened its doors to the public with guided tours on offer. Indeed the mosque was the first ever to be built in Switzerland.
The mosque was actually built at the instigation of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, whose traditions go back to 1889 in India. It purports to revive Islam in its original peaceful form.
The community has existed in Switzerland only since shortly after the Second World War and now numbers more than 800 members. Initially followers wanted to set up such a mosque in Germany but they failed to get the necessary permission. In 2005 a second place of worship serving the community, the Noor Mosque, was set up in Wigoltingen in the canton of Thurgau.
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