Järvenpää Mosque
Järvenpää Mosque (Finnish: Järvenpään moskeija) is a mosque located in the Finnish town of Järvenpää. It is owned by The Finnish-Islamic Congregation, which members are Finnish Tatars. It was built in the 1940s. The Tatar community together raised the money for it.
Imam Enver Yıldırım and Finnish Tatars during a prayer service in 1989. 
In the 1980s in the mosque, Tatars still arranged language and religious teaching for the children of the community. Later, most of the activity has been centered around a few religious occasions, such as Ramadan.
Around the time the Järvenpää mosque was built, a separate Islamic congregation was founded in Tampere by local Tatars.
They practice Sunni Islam.
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References
- ^ "Järvenpää Mosque: The first mosque in the Nordic countries". International Media Center (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-08-29.
- ^ "Al Fozan". mosqpedia.org. Retrieved 2022-08-29.
- ^ Moilanen, Kaisu (2015). "Suomen ainoa minareetillinen moskeija on Järvenpäässä, ja se kuuluu tataareille (for subscribers)". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish).
- ^ Baibulat, Muazzez (2004). The Tampere Islamic Congregation: the roots and history (in English, Tatar and Finnish). Jyväskylä: Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy. p. 30. ISBN 952-91-6753-9.
- ^ Marjamäki, Kolehmainen, Marja-Leena, Ilkka (1980). Suomen tataarimusiikki (in a book: Tugan Tel - Kirjoituksia Suomen tataareista. 2011. Reporter: Kadriye Bedretdin). Helsinki: Suomen Itämainen Seura. p. 355. ISBN 978-951-9380-78-0.
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