The Mahmood Mosque is on Forchstrasse in Zurich, Switzerland, and is the first purpose-built mosque in Switzerland. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community owns and operates it. Three Ahmadiyya missionaries arrived in Zurich on October 13, 1946, and the mission was led by Sheikh Nasir Ahmad from 1946 to 1962 and by Mushtaq Ahmad Bajwa from 1962 to 1975.
The foundation stone was laid on August 25, 1962, by Amatul Hafeez Begum, a daughter of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. It contains a stone from the wall of the Mubarak Mosque in Qadian, India. The mosque was inaugurated on June 22, 1963, by Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, President of the 17th session of the UN General Assembly, and Mayor Emil Landolt attended.
The mosque has one minaret, 59 feet (18 m) high. The mission also established the magazine DER ISLAM and published the first Arabic-German edition of the Quran in 1954.
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