One mosque and the negotiation of German Islam

Religion, art and creativity in the global city

“…In the last two or three decades, a growing number of scholars turned their attention in particular to creative urban place-making activities of immigrant and minority faith communities (Dwyer, Gilbert, and Shah 2013;Shah, Dwyer, and Gilbert 2012;Truitt, forthcoming). By way of complex place-making activities, immigrants and their religious communities symbolise their arrival and permanence in cities, seek to leave their mark on their new urban environments and claim their legitimate spaces and venues of participation in the city (Kuppinger 2014b;Warner and Wittner 1998). Using creative and aesthetic means, immigrant faith communities seek to become visible (Saint-Blancat and Cancellieri 2014) and recognised urban constituencies (Kuppinger 2015).…”