Germany is on Israel’s side? Sometimes only symbolically, as the shameful fall of Iran’s blue dome in Hamburg shows. The then First Mayor Olaf Scholz also played a role.
Where Hamburg is most beautiful, it also seems to be the most cosmopolitan. In the middle of the magnificent villas on the Outer Alster, postal address Schöne Aussicht 36, stands one of the oldest German mosques. Magnificent minarets and a sky-blue dome, the prayer room contains the largest round carpet in the world, made up of an estimated 80 million knots. Tourism websites hail this as a “little piece of the Orient in the heart of Hamburg”. A visit is definitely recommended. However, an additional warning would be appropriate.