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​Mosque Archives in Germany 
​The Ahmadiyya Anjuman Lahore (AAL) mosque archive in Berlin-Wilmersdorf


Covering a time period of almost 80 years (1928-2004), this archive is an important crossroads in the interaction between Germany and India in the twentieth century and a valuable source of knowledge, not only of the functioning of a mosque over time but also of our understanding of global history​ in the early twentieth century. 

Handed over to the National Archive of Berlin in 2019,  the AAL mosque archive has been made available for research. The finding aid LAB D Rep. 920-16 contains approx. 70.000 documents, 5.000 photographs and 331 religious pamphlets.


In a first step we addressed correspondences dating from the interwar and postwar period and traced them to a number of other archives, thus connecting sender to receiver. This has resulted in the discovery of communicative patterns, which neither the AAL mosque archive nor the receiving / sending archives disclose when viewed on their own. The findings serve as a platform for next steps, both in this archive and in the ethnographic survey of mosque archives across Germany.

The following publications inform about the AAL mosque archive:
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Gerdien Jonker
​Das Moscheearchiv in Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Zwischen muslimischer Moderne
 und deutscher Lebensreform (April 2019): 
projekt-mida.de/reflexicon/das-moscheearchiv-in-berlin-wilmersdorf_zwischen-muslimischer-moderne-und-deutscher-lebensreform/2019



Photo: The mosque archive in the cellar of the house of the imam in 2017


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   Gerdien Jonker
​Das buddhistische Haus in Berlin-Frohnau. Die Archivierung des
   Buddhismus aus protestantischer Sicht (2020):​ 
https://www.projekt-mida.de/reflexicon/das-archiv-des-buddhistischen-hauses-in-berlin-frohnau/2020



​Photo: Dr. Paul Dahlke's filing system in the attic of the Buddhist House in 2019

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​​Gerdien Jonker, "Juden und Muslime im Berlin der Zwischenkriegszeit - Eine Nachbarschaftsgeschichte." In: Münchener Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, Jg. 14 / Heft 2 (2020), S. 7 - 16.






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Gerdien Jonker, „Ein Beben im religiösen Feld. Die Zusammenarbeit von Juden, Buddhisten und Muslimen im Nachkriegs-Berlin.“ In: Medaon. Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung (2021) 







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Photo: Berliner Tagesspiegel, March 1948

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