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19-479: During a meeting at the Atlantic Hotel in 1953, a group of Iranian residents of Germany discussed the need to establish their own religious center. A letter was sent to the late Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Husayn Borujerdi asking him for help; Borujerdi agreed with the plan and donated RI 100,000 to the center. Construction started once the organization's first director, Ayatollah Mohagheghi, arrived at Hamburg, with

38-559: A breeding ground for hatred against Israel". The centre was raided on 24 July 2024 and closed by order of Germany's interior minister Nancy Faeser , who claimed that it was being used by the Iranian government to "propagate an Islamist , totalitarian ideology". Documents provided to Der Spiegel stated that the mosque's director had reportedly received orders from Mehdi Mostafavi, former advisor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . Several other affiliated Islamic centres were closed down as well, including

57-559: Is a central quarter in the borough Hamburg-Mitte of Hamburg , Germany . In 2020 the population was 11,349. In 1410 the articles 17 and 18 of a contract ( Rezeß ) between the Senate and the citizens were regulating the accommodation of the patients in the hospital St. Georg (S. Georg / Suente Juergens). This hospital still exists as the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg . In 1868 the suburb St. Georg became official part of Hamburg, including

76-484: Is also considered as Hamburg's main scene for gays and lesbians. In the street Lange Reihe is the starting point of Hamburg's annual Christopher Street Day parade. In 2006 in the quarter St. Georg were living 10,551 people. 9.2% were children under the age of 18, and 13.2% were 65 years of age or older. 31.4% were immigrants. 629 people were registered as unemployed. In 1999 there were 6,882 households and 67.8% of all households were made up of individuals. These are

95-770: Is located in St. Georg. In 2011 the Ohnsorg-Theater moved into the new theatre in the Bieberhaus next to the Hauptbahnhof. Among others the Sportverein St. Georg von 1895 is a sports club in St. Georg using the facilities in the quarter. The Honorary Consulate General of the Kingdom of Thailand established in Hamburg in 1881 is located in the street An der Alster 45 and covers affairs in

114-640: The Centre for Islamic Culture Frankfurt  [ de ] and the Islamic Centre Berlin. Soon after the raid, Germany's ambassador to Iran was summoned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . The ban was strongly condemned by Iran, with several government agencies accusing the German government of Islamophobia . Religious authorities shared similar sentiments, with Qom Seminary administrators claiming that "the move

133-560: The Iranian Revolution . From 1993 until its closing, the Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg  [ de ] monitored the IZH due to its ideological, organisational, and personal ties to the Iranian government. The IZH repeatedly protested against its monitoring, stating that it was a "purely religious institution that, independent of Tehran, only deals with

152-496: The building's cornerstone being laid on 13 February 1961. In 1963, Mohagheghi's return to Iran led to construction being halted. Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti would replace him and remain the organization's head until 1970. During the 1970s, the centre played a significant role in bringing about the political rising of Iranian students in the West against the Shah and ultimately contributed to

171-614: The capacity to dispatch emergency medical services. The hospital is located Lohmühlenstrasse . Since 2008 the hospital also houses the Asklepios Medical School , a private medical school run by the Asklepios Kliniken Hamburg and the Hungarian Semmelweis University . In 2006 there were 67 physicians in private practice and 9 pharmacies. St. Georg is serviced by the rapid transit system of

190-712: The country in November the same year. During the Mahsa Amini protests , a motion was passed by the Bundestag , which among other things, called on the German government to "examine whether and how the [IZH] can be closed as a hub for the Iranian regime's operations in Germany." More calls for the IZH's closure were made after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel , with Greens member Jennifer Jasberg  [ de ] stating "We do not want to accept that individual actors in our city create

209-400: The hospital for epidemic plague. The murder of Morsal Obeidi occurred in 2008 in St. Georg. St. Georg is south-east to the artificial lake Außenalster , which is the border to the borough Eimsbüttel . According to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the urban quarter has a total area of 1.8 km². Parts of the quarter St. Georg are ranked as a good address by

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228-577: The hotel was sold to the Kempinski chain. In 1994, German financier Dieter Bock sold Kempinski Hotels, but maintained ownership of the Hotel Atlantic. In 1997, parts of the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies were filmed in the hotel. Owner Dieter Bock choked to death in the hotel on May 12, 2010. In 2014, the hotel was sold to German billionaire Bernard Broermann . In 2017, it was announced that

247-546: The hotel would cease to be managed by Kempinski in January 2021 and would switch to Marriott 's Autograph Collection chain. The hotel left Kempinski on 13 January 2021. This article about a German hotel or resort is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Hamburg building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . St. Georg, Hamburg St. Georg (Sankt Georg; German: [ˌzaŋkt ˈɡeːɔʁk] )

266-403: The office of city development and environment of Hamburg. The central situation of St. Georg and many places of nightlife, street cafés and shops is the source for the gentrification in this quarter since the 1980s. The city of Hamburg and the borough Hamburg-Mitte have special programs to change this quarter. Because of the many gay-owned and gay-friendly nightclubs, cafés and shops, St. Georg

285-697: The religious affairs of Shiite Muslims living in Europe." On 17 June 2022, IZH deputy director Seyed Soliman Mousavifar received an expulsion order from the Federal Ministry of the Interior after an investigation revealed that he maintained ties with Hezbollah representatives in Lebanon. Mousavifar appealed the decision twice, but was rejected by the Hamburg Administrative Court  [ de ] and left

304-561: The results of St. Georg in the Hamburg state election : The Domkirche St. Marien (English: St. Mary's Cathedral ) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in St. Georg. The present building dates from the 1890s. The main campus of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences is at the street Berliner Tor . There were 3 elementary schools and 6 secondary schools in St. Georg in 2006. The Deutsches Schauspielhaus (theatre), founded in 1901,

323-462: The states of Bremen , Hamburg, and Schleswig-Holstein . The Asklepios Klinik St. Georg is a general hospital with 758 beds and 67 day-care places (e.g. for patients with AIDS ). The hospital has 10 departments, including internal medicine , surgery (including urology ), neurology , neurosurgery , anaesthetics and intensive care and ambulant surgery. The hospital is specialized among others for heart surgery and oncology . It also provides

342-691: Was constructed at a cost of 14 million gold marks and was designed to house passengers on transatlantic ocean liners of the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) and the Hamburg South America Line . It was opened on 2 May 1909 by Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow and HAPAG general director Albert Ballin . Following the end of World War II , it was requisitioned by the British Armed Forces and used as their Hamburg headquarters from 1945 to 1950. The hotel reopened on 1 March 1950. In 1957,

361-624: Was reminiscent of the racist policies of the Nazi regime " and would "expose the hypocrisy of those claiming to uphold freedom of religion and expression." Hotel Atlantic Kempinski The Hotel Atlantic Hamburg is a historic luxury hotel in Hamburg , Germany, opened in 1909. It is located in the St. Georg district, between the Außenalster lake and the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof . The Hotel Atlantic

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