Brandbergen Mosque

The Brandbergen Mosque, officially the Islamic Association in Brandbergen is a mosque located in Brandbergen, Haninge Municipality, south of Stockholm, Sweden.

Brandbergen Mosque
Religion
AffiliationSunni Islam
Location
LocationBrandbergen, Haninge, Stockholm County, Sweden
Sweden
Geographic coordinates59.173616°N 18.167988°E / 59.173616; 18.167988
Architecture
TypeMosque

In the 1990s the mosque supported the extremist Armed Islamic Group of Algeria during the Algerian Civil War. According to the Jamestown Foundation, the mosque "has been repeatedly linked to Salafist-Jihadist terrorism since the early 1990s, when it served as a propaganda hub for the Algerian Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA)."[1]

In 2004 an Arabic-language manual, which carried the logo and address of the Brandbergen Mosque, was spread on the internet. The manual described the construction of simple chemical weapons, including how to build a chemical munition from an ordinary artillery round.[2] On December 7, 2006, the Swedish citizen Mohamed Moumou, who is described by the United States Department of the Treasury as an "uncontested leader of an extremist group centered around the Brandbergen Mosque in Stockholm", was put on the United Nations Security Council Committee 1267 list of foreign terrorists.[3]

In November 2006 the Islamic Association got permission to build a Muslim Cultural Center next to the city center. The cultural center will include an assembly hall, library, restaurant, gyms and baths.[4] It is meant to serve as a meeting place for the area's Muslims, as well as other residents.[5]

References
  1. Siegel, Pascale Combelles (November 7, 2008). "Coalition Attack Brings an End to the Career of al-Qaeda in Iraq's Second-in-Command". Terrorism Monitor. 6 (21).
  2. "Globalterroralert (9/18/04)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2007. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
  3. "Treasury Designations Target Terrorist Facilitators" (Press release). United States Department of the Treasury. December 7, 2006. Archived from the original on May 26, 2007.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Sveriges Radio
  5. Haninge Municipality building plans


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