Yenidze
A cigarette factory from 1909 built to look like a mosque, with a colored-glass dome housing a restaurant and a “fairy-tale theatre.”
Yenidze was a cigarette factory completed in 1909. Its owner, promoting Oriental tobacco, designed the building to resemble a mosque, with its chimney disguised as a minaret and a dome of colored glass on top. Locals nicknamed it the “Tobacco Mosque.” It is now an office building. Beneath the dome are a restaurant and a rooftop terrace with views of the Elbe and the Old Town skyline. The small theatre inside the dome often hosts fairy-tale readings and storytelling events. The exterior can be admired for free, but entering requires making a purchase at the restaurant. It lies in the northwest of the Old Town, about a 15-minute walk from the Zwinger.
Opening hours
Restaurant about 11:00–23:00 (confirm on site)
Nearby sights
- Zwinger
- Semperoper
- Dresden Castle & Green Vault
- Dresden Cathedral (Hofkirche)
- Procession of Princes
- Golden Rider
- Altmarkt & Striezelmarkt
- Brühl's Terrace