Schwetzingen Park Mosque

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Red Mosque (Schwetzingen)
German: Rote Moschee
Location
Location	Schwetzingen, Germany
Shown within Germany
Geographic coordinates	49°23′01″N 8°33′57″E / 49.38361°N 8.56583°E / 49.38361; 8.56583
Architecture
Architect(s)	Nicolas de Pigage
Type	mosque
Style	Mock Turkish
Groundbreaking	1779-1793

The Schwetzingen Park Mosque (German: Moschee im Schwetzinger Schlossgarten), also known as the Red Mosque (German: Rote Moschee) is a decorative building in the park of Schwetzingen Palace in the former Electoral Palatinate, now the northern tip of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Built in 1779–1793 AD, it is the oldest mosque-like building in Germany.

The Schwetzingen Park Mosque was not intended as an actual place for Muslim prayer, and did not serve as one except for brief periods in the 1870s and 1980s. Instead, it signalled acknowledgement of the value of non-Christian religions and specifically Islam, underlined by a number of inscriptions inside and outside the building that are meant to embody ageless wisdom attributed to a semi-mythical Orient. As such, the Schwetzingen Park Mosque can be viewed as an early monument to religious tolerance and an exemplar of the Age of Enlightenment.