The Berlin Mosque; Some Daughters of Islam
The Light (Pakistan), 1st February 1925 Issue (Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 4)
The Berlin Mosque:
Our readers will perhaps recollect that every now and then, we have been reporting in these columns the activities of the Muslim Mission of Berlin and the conversions to Islam of men and women of learning and social standing in that metropolis of the Hun.
It will, we are sure, add immensely to their pleasure to learn that the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam, Lahore, have erected there at a heavy expense, a magnificent Mosque worthy of the great message of Islam.
In the most respectable quarter of that huge town, writes Maulvi Sadruddin, Head of the Mission, which the Berlin University has chosen for the residence of its professors and in the midst of lovely villas owned and inhabited by the gentry and the nobility, rises, above all, the big dome of that only Villa of Allah.
The Mosque is forty-six and a half feet square. The gate is thirty feet high, and the dome seventy-five feet. The two minarets, not yet taken in hand, are to be ninety feet each. The residential quarter attached to the Mosque is under construction, and likewise the plots and the garden, for which there is ample patch left, are yet to be laid out.
Our congratulations are due, besides the numerous donors, to the energetic Maulvi Sadruddin but for whose labour of love coupled with a fine artistic taste, such a lovely monument to the name of Allah would long have remained a mere dream.
Some Daughters of Islam:
Nor must we omit in this connection to pay our homage to the spirit of self-sacrifice displayed by a handful of Muslim ladies in making the scheme of the Mosque a complete success.
At the last anniversary [1924] of the said Anjuman when it was announced that the minarets would have, for the time being, to be abandoned for lack of funds, the few of them that were present responded in a manner that reminded one of the good old days of Islam when Muslim women shared equally with men the glory of daring and sacrifice in the cause of Truth. Like a worn-out pair of gloves, they threw their jewellery off on the spot and in a few minutes made up the requisite few thousands.
And so long as those far-off minarets are set in their place, they will tell all coming generations of visitors and votaries to the Mosque of the selfless zeal of these daughters of Islam to uphold the honour of their Great Faith in that foreign land.