	Ateş opened the Ibn Ruschd-Goethe mosque in 2017, funded by a brothel and located in a church. It's the only liberal 'mosque' in Germany where men and women pray together, and women can take the role of imam leading a prayer. The Turkish religious authority and the Egyptian Fatwa Council at the Al-Azhar University have condemned her project, and she has received death threats. The fatwa encompassed all present and future liberal mosques.