The Uppsala Mosque () is a small but very frequented mosque located in the
Kapellgärdet neighbourhood of
Uppsala
Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Loc ...
in
Sweden
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. At the time of construction, it was mistakenly claimed to be the northernmost mosque in the world (
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
was). It is still the northernmost mosque in Sweden.
There is another small mosque in Uppsala, located at Bandstolsvägen 28, near Gottsunda centrum
History
On 1 January 2015, the mosque was attacked with a
molotov cocktail
A Molotov cocktail (among several other names – ''see '') is a hand-thrown incendiary weapon consisting of a frangible container filled with flammable substances and equipped with a Fuse (explosives), fuse (typically a glass bottle filled wit ...
.
See also
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Islam in Sweden
Swedish contact with the Muslim world dates back to the 7th–10th centuries, when the Vikings traded with Muslims during the Islamic Golden Age. Since the late 1960s and more recently, Muslim immigration from the Middle East, Balkans and H ...
References
Mosques in Sweden
Mosque buildings with domes in Europe
Buildings and structures in Uppsala
Mosque buildings with minarets in Europe
1996 establishments in Sweden
20th-century establishments in Uppsala County
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