The Alevi Community of Berlin moved into the former building of the New Apostolic church in Kreuzberg. The community centre it had used previously at Lindower Straße in the district of Wedding was by then too small for its 1,500 members, and the new building was bought for 1.7 million deutschmarks. It was redesigned and has been used since then as a "cemevi" (meeting house or community centre). With its religious-cultural programme, it was the first of its kind in Germany.