FUNDACION MEZQUITA DE SEVILLA
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Mission Statement
The Muslim community of Seville began in the seventies, when the first Spaniards became Muslims. Since then, it has grown exponentially in one of the largest and most established Muslim communities in Spain. Being one of the few to have four generations of native Spanish Muslims in their families. Certainly they are a reference of Islam in this great city. Today there are more than 30,000 Muslims in Seville. Over the years the community has expanded with the unstoppable growth of families and increasing number of new Muslims. The community is also surrounded and supported by several generations, of a large community of immigrants, from Morocco, Algeria, Senegal, etc. Throughout the years we have had different centers in the city, and now we have one in the heart of Seville, in Plaza Ponce de León, which has been open and full of activity for over 15 years. Since 2000 we began to work on the project of building a mosque in Seville. In 2014 we renovated the project management, and we are currently working on the construction of an Islamic Cultural Center. Because we believe it is not only a necessity for the growing Muslim population in Seville, it will be a big step in returning Islam to its rightful place. To lift and pull Muslims and Islam, from those small centres and garages in the outskirts of the city. It will be a place for expansion, a place of service to Muslims and non-muslims, a place where people can see Islam for its reality and light. Seville Mosque Foundation was created in 2005 as a legal tool, to represent the Muslims of Seville and for the construction of the Mosque and Cultural Center. The foundation is registered in the Ministry of Education and Culture, 651CUL. The board of trustees is composed of key figures of the present and future of the Muslim community in Seville. Among the specific purposes of the statutes of the Seville Mosque Foundation are; - To facilitate all Muslims, without distinction of nationality, age, sex, race, or origin, a place of prayer and worship and provide the means and instruments for the observance of religious practices and for the development of education, well-being and the harmonious coexistence. - To provide help and cooperation to the youngest, the elderly, the weak and the handicapped who are in need regardless of their nationality, race or religious belief. - To provide help to Muslims in Spain, in particular, and to those in the rest of the world, in general, who are in need for reasons of age, weakness, disability, ignorance, poverty or economic and social circumstances. - To promote in the Mosque and in the Cultural Center, the holding of classes, conferences and seminars that will be open to both Muslims and those who are not.
About This Cause
We believe in a model of Islam that functions as developer of civilization. That is why we have conceived our project of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Seville as the best way to relate to the city, our human, historical and institutional environment. A city that has inherited a great heritage of Islam in wealth and representation over time. In this new moment, the Spanish Muslims, neighbours of Seville, want our city to shine as it has throughout its history, containing a building that stands out for its beauty and elegance, bringing something new to what the city offers. Something that will undoubtedly open new doors to the already attractive offer and create a space for dialogue that will be transformed into wealth in all orders. A space of relationship that takes Islam and Muslims out of the undergrounds and warehouses, and where Islam can be appreciated for its reality and its light. A civilizing, dynamic and living Islam, which spread from East to West, which was not exclusive of cultures, but was rather a vehicle of relationship between areas as far away as Indonesia and the Maghreb. An Islam that is totally against any radical position. From the understanding of the verses of the Qur’an where Allah expresses that ¨Mankind! We created you from a male and female and made you into peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each other. ¨49/13, emanates a fundamental axiom of our project: “In diversity lies our richness.” We recognize ourselves as European Muslims. Not only by location, but by education, and we conceive culture beyond the expressive form of its identity, of peoples and countries, of the way of responding to their daily needs, or of individual experience. We understand it by the universal conception, thought medicine, its relationship with wealth, its technical form, its literature and all the arts that allow the development and growth of the human being. The framework where our project is inspired is the Imaret, which was traditionally conceived containing spaces for teaching, for health, library and study rooms, soup kitchen, spiritual centre and mosque. As an element that is the creative pattern of culture and civilization. A space of gathering by virtue of the activities and services it provides. At the same time, we understand that, to attract a new source of wealth to the city, it must contain a business and investment centre and a tourist office that relate the values of Seville with all the traditional lands of Islam. With the success of this project, God willing, this contribution will enrich the city in all the aforementioned aspects, and we will be able to glimpse a horizon that establishes a relationship with Islam beyond the strict religious framework that is being imposed on it, so that the city, its inhabitants and institutions, understand that this project responds to a need of its citizens that formulate it to enrich coexistence and social development.