Kobe Muslim Mosque
Kobe Masjid also known as Kobe Muslim Masjid was founded in October, 1935 in Kobe and is Japan’s first masjid. Its construction was funded by donations collected by the Islamic Committee of Kobe from 1928 until its opening in 1935. It is located in the Kitano-cho foreign district of Kobe.
The mosque survived the air raids that laid waste to most of Kobe’s urban districts in 1945 and was able to endure through the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. The mosque was built in traditional Indo-Islamic style by the Czech architect Jan Josef Švagr, the architect of a number of Western religious buildings throughout Japan.
- Kobe Muslim Mosque
- Location: Kobe
- Country: Japan
- Built: 1935 AD
