The Berlin Mosque in Wilmersdorf was designed by K. A. Hermann for the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement. The foundation stone was laid on August 6, 1923, and it was inaugurated on April 26, 1925. The article calls its style Neo-Mughal, and the infobox adds Modern Indo-Islamic.
The plan is symmetrical, about 47 feet (14.2 m) square, with one onion dome 75 feet (23 m) wide and 85 feet (26 m) high, and two minarets. The article gives the minarets as 90 feet (27.5 m) in the infobox and 27 meters in the text. It resembles Mughal tombs, and the article links its symmetry to the Taj Mahal. It holds 400 worshippers.
World War II heavily damaged it, and the article attributes the damage to an attack by Russian soldiers. It reopened in 1952 with a restoration grant from Berlin's monuments department. Both minarets were rebuilt from 1999 to 2001. The article gives no materials.
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