Lamp post

The lamp post with the two street lights is located at a curve right behind the biggest mosque in Vienna. The mosque was completed in 1979 and was subsidised by Faisal Ben Abdul Aziz, the former Saudi king. Standing in the curve facing the lamp post straight on, one has a view of the mosque minaret to the left of the lamp post and the tallest building in Vienna, the 252-meter-tall Donau tower, to the right. Contrary to what you might think, the tower is not a television tower like the famous tower in Berlin. Instead, commercial radio and various cell phone signals are broadcast from here. During the early years, the mosque on Hubertusdamm broadcast its call for prayers from the 32-meter-tall minaret, but by request from the neighbours the call has been limited to the mosque’s central hall.