Antwerp has 36 mosques, and according to Monica De Coninck, the alderman in charge of diversity, this is 75% too much. De Coninck would like to see up to nine medium sized, well equipped and safe mosques. Currently, many of the mosques in Antwerp are small, located in old buildings, and unsafe in emergency situations (for example, they lack an emergency exit). De Coninck says that the new mosques should be built by existing neighborhoods, but planning may be assisted by professional urban planners to design architecturally integrated mosques for a Western look.
