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Description
Property Name: Kobe Mosque
Inventory No: 81-78-1
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2009-08-06
Country (State party): Japan
Province: Kobe
Town:
Geographic coordinates: 34° 41′ 46.19″ N
135° 11′ 16.53″ E
Historic Period: 20th century, 1st half
Year of Construction: 1935
Style:
Original Use: Mosque
Current Use: Mosque
Architect: Jan Josef Švagr
Significance
Kobe Mosque is the first mosque constructed in Japan. The strong structure of the building allowed it to remain standing during the bombings of World War II and to be used by the Japanese military as a shelter during the . The mosque survived the Great Kobe Earthquake in 1995 and housed many families that lost their homes. The mosque is built in traditional Asian-Turkish style and is elaborately decorated.
Selection Criteria
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
The mosque was built in 1935. It has survived air raids during the War in the Pacific as well as the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, and the original building is intact even today.
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