Halbmondlager
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The Halbmondlager was a prisoner-of-war camp in Wünsdorf, Germany, during the First World War. The name translates as Crescent Camp or Half-Moon Camp and refers to the crescent, a symbol of Islam.
POWs in the Halbmondlager (April 1915)
Wünsdorf Mosque
Interned Soviet soldiers of Muslim faith, who had fled the Polish-Soviet War into East Prussia, Germany, attending the mosque in Wünsdorf, in the early 1920s
Cemetery
The Mosque of the Bois de Vincennes, also known as the Mosque of the Colonial Garden Hospital or Nogent Mosque was a former Islamic mosque, located in the grounds of the Bois de Vincennes, in greater
Bilingual postcard picturing the former mosque with soldiers, 1916
French propaganda image of the Mosque to be built in the Bois de Vincennes (late 1915)
Gathering for the Eid al-Adha in front of the mosque on 16 September 1918