Poles Protest Illegal Mosque Disguised as Community Center in Kraków
7th July 2026
On Monday evening, hundreds of people gathered to protest in front of a residential building in Kraków, Poland’s second-largest city, after it had been revealed that a “community center” in one of the rental apartments had actually been operating as an illegal mosque for some time, without the knowledge of other residents.
The main organizer of the demonstration was right-wing activist Micha? Kostrzy?ski, who led a months-long investigation into the alleged community center and documented his findings online. Kostrzy?ski learned that the space was actually a house of Muslim worship, run without proper authorization by the Al-Fajr Foundation, a self-described “Islamic and cultural foundation based in Kraków, established to serve, support, and empower the Muslim community in Kraków and across Poland.”
While the staff insisted that it was only a “community center” for cultural education and nothing more—the same thing they told residents—Kostrzy?ski found their fundraiser requests from last year, in which they were openly asking for donations for a third “house of prayer,” because the other two in the city were already at full capacity.