Dr. Omar Khalidi, an American photographer and chronicler of mosque architecture, visited mosques in the Rhein-Main area and spoke to several groups on the first leg of his tour through Germany, organized by the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. Khalidi, a senior research scholar at the Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, spoke to members of the
Masjid Othman Ibn Affan in Rüsselsheim and to students and faculty of the American studies and Islamic studies departments at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.