I have been waiting all day for a report about this to appear on line from a source that was a bit more reliable than Middle East on-line. From The Telegraph A large mosque in the German city of Cologne, famous for the soaring spires of its Gothic cathedral, is to be built after the city council finally gave it the go-ahead.The mosque, which will hold up to 2,000 people, will be one of the largest in Europe and is to feature minarets 180 feet high, a third as tall as the nearby cathedral.
Building work was due to get underway last autumn despite a vigorous protest movement, which has featured both Jewish intellectuals and the political far-right.
Some reports suggested the city's council only agreed to the project after designers agreed to trim down the size of the mosque's minarets.
But Miriam Berndt, from the architect's cabinet behind the project said that nothing had changed. "The minarets will remain as tall as planned, and this will be one of Germany's biggest mosques," she said. "We will start building work this winter and will be finished in a year or two."
Next month, the far-right group Pro-Köln, which has led protests against the mosque in the city, is to host an "anti-Islamisation conference" in Cologne, with far-right politicians from across Europe, including France's Jean-Marie Le Pen, to attend.
Meanwhile in the UK, apart from the secrecy surrounding the application for the megamosque quite a few other mosques are not getting what they asked for from the local councils.
Pendle Today- PLANS to extend a Nelson mosque are being recommended for refusal by Pendle Council officers.
Express and Star Controversial plans to build a new mosque in Walsall have been thrown out by planning bosses. But that was an Ahmadiyya mosque opposed by other Muslims as well as non Muslims.
OldhamAdvertiser PLANS for a mosque and multi-purpose community centre on Manchester Road in Werneth have been rejected.
Swindon Advertiser MUSLIMS have been told ‘no’ for now to their hopes of building a purpose-built mosque in Swindon.
Only in Huddersfield are the Mosque builders, Ahmadiyyas again,  having a modicum of success.
The Huddersfield Examiner. CONTROVERSIAL plans to turn an historic sports club site into a mosque have been given the green light by councillors.
Hundreds of people objected to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association’s plan to transform The Pavilion at Fartown into a mosque and community centre.