Seville will have a €10 million mosque with healthcare for Muslims.
The promoters compare it to the Mosque of Muhammad in Medina, the centre of the first politically organised Muslim community.
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The future grand mosque of Seville is no longer a distant project. According to reports The Courier of Andalusia, After more than twenty years of failed attempts, the Islamic Community is on the verge of obtaining the building permit. If nothing changes, on Friday 10 July. The PP municipal government plans to grant the permits. Vox, which supports Mayor José Luis Sanz at the plenary session, has opened a new standoff with the PP and already He warns that he does not want the mosque to be built “neither now nor ever”.
The location has also sparked conflict. The project has been proposed next to the Polígono Sur., the area around the well-known Tres Mil Viviendas, one of the most conflict-ridden and neglected areas of Seville. Vox maintains that a project of this scale should be subject to the utmost publicity and community involvement, while the PP argues that it is merely a licence on private land and a technical procedure.
The £10.8 million mosque is only 20 per cent complete.
The project is not just a prayer room to exercise religious freedom. According to the Seville Mosque Foundation, the prayer room will be about 400 square metres with capacity for around 500 people. This represents approximately only 20 per cent of a construction valued at €10.8 million.. The remainder of the space will be a large Islamic cultural centre with educational, social, commercial and community areas.
The complex presents itself as an open centre, but its internal logic is clearly Islamic. The founding registration with the Ministry explicitly states that it is to teach “the norms of Islam” and knowledge of the Qur'an so that they may be known and disseminated in Spain.
The Islamic centre presents itself as a space with a library, classrooms, conferences, social services, legal advice, management of Muslim marriages, pilgrimages to Mecca, burials, distribution of food and clothing, shops, a café and coworking. and even a medical section for Muslims. That is to say, it's not just worship: it's education, family, social welfare, commerce, healthcare and community life under the same Islamic umbrella.
Closing the circle of Muslim life
The project fits with a well-known dynamic within institutional Islamism, especially in the orbit of the Muslim Brotherhood: not to limit oneself to opening mosques, but to build complete ecosystems. The idea is not just to provide a place of worship, but to create a network capable of accompanying the Muslim in every dimension of life. The mosque ceases to be merely a religious space and becomes the centre of a parallel community.
This is the same pattern observed in Islamic projects. like that of the Nueces Mosque, next to the University of Texas at Austin, presented by its promoters as a replicable model in the West: mosque, training, accommodation, sports and services under a religious framework that imposes gender segregation, modest dress or the absence of music, pork or alcohol. In Seville they don't talk about a university residence, but the logic is similar: To concentrate services in an Islamic centre so that the community can increasingly live there. On the margins of the West. Praying, getting an education, getting married, burying the dead, receiving help, eating, shopping and going to the doctor all go through the same place under its own rules. Everything that in an open society is distributed among various civil institutions comes to be concentrated under a religious centre. where its rules apply.
Replicate the model of Muhammad in Medina
The project's promotional video gives the most unsettling clue: The promoters compare the future mosque with the mosque that Muhammad built in Medina., the place where Muhammad began to organise the first Muslim community, which created the first Islamic state. Medina is not a spiritual anecdote: It is the moment when Islam ceases to be merely preaching and becomes an organised community, with its own rules, authority and collective life.. That is why the reference is so significant.
In the promotional video they claim that Western Muslim communities are “like a baby that is being born”. They present Seville as a project with the ambition to set a benchmark, “a model not only for Spain, but for all of Europe and the Islamic world”That is to say, the centre is not sold merely as a local solution for prayer, but as a visible piece of the organised growth of Islam in the West.
The foundation insists that the project is funded by private investment. It insists that it has launched fundraising campaigns to finance the centre and presents the work as a community responsibility of Muslims.
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