Zossen
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Zossen is a German town in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg, about 30 kilometres south of Berlin, and next to the B96 highway. Zossen consists of several smaller municipalities, which wer
Church of the Holy Trinity
Church in Nunsdorf
Mosque view in the POW camp: In July 1915, the first mosque on German soil was erected in the so-called Crescent Camp Wünsdorf (Halbmondlager Wünsdorf). The POW camp held enemy soldiers of the Islamic faith, allowing them to practice their religion in the mosque. The construction was financed by the Prussian Army. (Photo circa 1915)
The entrance to the former Imperial Gymnastics Gymnasium (Kaiserliche Turnanstalt) and later German Army Sports School Wünsdorf, built between 1914 and 1916. Today, the buildings are falling into disrepair.
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