This photo of Germany’s first mosque in Berlin-Wilmersdorf was taken by press photographer Georg Pahl around 1931. Although a temporary mosque had earlier existed on German soil, within the grounds of Wünsdorf prisoner-of-war camp and built to serve the incarcerated British and French troops of Muslim faith during the First World War, it had been demolished in the 1920s. The imposing new mosque in the Wilmersdorf neighborhood of Berlin, on the other hand, asserted a structural permanence and echoed the Indian Mughal architecture of South Asia, most famously that of the Taj Mahal.