Le Juste Milieu Mosque

The Golden Mean Mosque of Bonnevoie (le lieu de culte de l’associaion de Juste Milieu) is an Islamic Cultural Center in Luxembourg City and is the first Islamic Center in Luxembourg and was opened in May 2015. Its construction was largely funded by Qatar Charity, an organization that has extensively been accused of funding terrorist and extremist activities. They worked in partnership with Le Juste Milieu, an Islamic Association in Luxembourg. The center was opened by Qatar Charity’s Chairman, Sheikh Hamad bin Nasser bin Jassim Al Thani.

The overall cost of the project was around 2.2 million euros of which Qatar Charity paid about 75 percent. Le Juste Milieu previously rented the property and had wanted to purchase it due to frequent changes in ownership. Qatar Charity initially began funding the project by selling shares to collect the sufficient funds to cover its construction. They turned to Qatar Charity for help purchasing the property. Qatar Charity initially began funding the project by selling shares to collect the sufficient funds to cover its construction. Despite the assistance from Qatar Charity, the building is owned and operated by Le Juste Milieu.

The cultural center, which has a mosque, legal center, school, da’wah center, and educational center for youth, benefits the more than 3,000 Muslims who live in Luxembourg City. The center covers an area of 650 square meters. Upon its completion its mosque and school were opened to Muslims living in Luxembourg, France, German, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

The Islamic Cultural Center in Luxembourg was one of many in Europe to be funded by Qatar in what some have called an attempt by Qatar to spread their extreme form of Wahhabism.