Plans Submitted for Three-Story Mosque in North Dublin
Last month, the Shuhada Foundation of Ireland finalized its application to construct a three-story mosque and community center at the site of Warrenstown House in Blanchardstown.
The facility, which used to accommodate services including a residential care facility and school, was sold along with 72 acres of adjoining farmland for €920,000 in 2015.
It is currently home to a small mosque and private-run Muslim primary school run by the Shuhada Foundation, who have been seeking to expand the center since September last year.
According to the plans, the group is proposing to build a new community, cultural and educational campus, which will comprise of the mosque, a community center and a primary school.
The proposed community center would include a sports hall with changing rooms, a restaurant, a barber shop, a halal food shop, meeting rooms, and an outdoor all-weather pitch.
The plans also outline that the mosque's minaret - which have been controversial in other European countries such as Switzerland - would be over 18m in height.
Submissions regarding the mosque are open until October 24, after which Fingal County Council will make a decision on whether to approve its construction.
Plans for development are being led by Dr Taufiq al-Sattar, a Dublin-based neurosurgeon whose wife, daughter and two sons perished in an arson attack in Leicester in England, in September 2013.
The Blanchardstown development would be just the second purpose-built mosque in Dublin, and the third in Ireland, following other mosques in Clonskeagh and Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo.
