On February 27, 2016, the Muslim theologian Mehmet Karaoglu was elected imam as chairman of the Central Mosque.

Karaoglu and Yildiz replaced the previous chairman and imam Ramazan Ucar and his deputy Ahmet Yazici after almost two decades.

The community of mosques was founded by Turkish guest workers and was originally called the «Society of Turkish Workers in Hamburg and its environs for the founding and construction of a mosque».

The groundbreaking ceremony in 1992 was attended by the then Prime Minister of Turkey Nedcmettin Erbakan, who at that time was the leader of the movement Milli Görüş.

[6] The then Bishop of the North Elbe Church Maria Jepsen supported the Muslim request for a daily call muezzina.