Overview
- The CDU in Hamburg’s parliament supports a civil-society proposal to create a memorial for victims of Islamism at the Blue Mosque site.
- The coalition’s "Five Pillars Against Islamism" concept also envisions a constitutionally compliant mosque, a documentation center on political Islam, a youth education campus and a Jina cultural center.
- The complex remains closed and under federal administration following the July 2024 ban of the Islamische Zentrum Hamburg by then–Interior Minister Nancy Faeser.
- Three lawsuits against the ban are pending at the Federal Administrative Court, so any decision on reuse awaits court rulings.
- CDU leaders Dennis Thering and Anke Frieling urge the city to prepare a framework now and warn against the site returning to Islamist or autocratic control; Hamburg’s Schura had planned its own proposal but canceled an event.