On July 12, an old video was shared in a social media post that had been mistakenly linked to a fire in a Spanish mosque, which local police said appeared to have been set on purpose. In fact, the dome of the Jakarta mosque caught fire during renovation work in October 2022.
“The Spanish public caught fire at Spain’s largest mosque after being frustrated by the horror of Islamic infiltration. Has people done the right thing?” Read the Hindi Facebook post on July 15.
The shared footage shows a dome roof with an Islamic star and a lunar dressed in flames with stickers that read: “The Spaniards have burned the Islamic Islamic Pila Mosque in Barcelona and are now under investigation by the police.”
A photo of a room with a blue floor and another similar to a burned room was covered in the clip.
Screenshot of False X post taken on July 21, 2025, AFP added red X mark
Clips surface on social media GermanAfter a mosque in Pierra, Barcelona, Spain and the French were burned down by a fire on July 12, two days before the inauguration (link to archive). No casualties.
According to various news reports, local police found traces of acceleration in the building and the fire seemed to have been set up on purpose (Archived Links here Here).
Local residents protested after the fire, some of whom called the incident a “hate crime” (archive link).
However, the looping lens comes from Indonesia, not Spain.
A reverse image search was performed on Google using the keyframe in the clip and it was found that it was posted on Tiktok on October 19, 2022 (a link to archive).
The video is titled: “The dome of the Grand Mosque in the Islamic Center of Jakarta is engulfed by flames.”
Comparison of screenshots of clips shared in error posts (left) and Tiktok videos Tribun Cirebon (right)
AFP reported that the fire caused the collapse of the dome of the Jakarta mosque, which was being renovated at the time (a link to archive). No one was injured in the incident.
AFP (Archived Link) also published footage of the Dome Crash.
The Google Street View image of the Grand Mosque in Jakarta also shows a similar structure seen in the loop video.
Comparing screenshots of fake posts (left) and videos in the Google Street View image (right) of Jakarta Mosque, AFP highlights similar elements
Reverse image search found that the two photos covered on the loop clip did show the damaged Barcelona mosque and reported the fire in local media (archived link Here and here).
