Friday, September 23, 2011

The “Blue Mosque”, “Gyok Jami” Yerevan, Armenia

The “Blue Mosque”, also known as the “Gyok Jami” (Masjed-i Kabud), is a mosque in Yerevan, Armenia. It was built in 1766 during the reign of Hussein Ali, the khan of Erivan (and is therefore sometimes referred to as “the mosque of Hussein Ali”). It was the largest of eight functioning mosques in Yerevan when the city was captured by Russia in 1827. The complex consisted of a main prayer room, a library, a medresse with 28 cells, all organised around a courtyard, with the overall complex occupying 7,000 square metres of land. It originally had four 24-metre high minarets – however, three of them were later demolished.
Blue Mosque, Gyok Jami Yerevan, Armenia

Monday, September 19, 2011

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Anti-Mosque Documentary by CBN

http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-watch/category/denmark

Friday, September 16, 2011

Mosque Church Hungary


The first thing visitors will notice at the central square Széchenyi tér is the so-called Mosque Church. The name already tells the story: Once, the building was used as the Gazi Kassim Pasha Mosque – it’s nothing less than the largest preserved building left from the Ottoman occupation in Hungary. After the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire, the mosque was transformed into a church without destroying the Islamic elements. The dome-shaped roof makes it the most characteristic building at the square.

Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Mosque the 28th Sultan of Brunei

Named after Omar Ali Saifuddien III, the 28th Sultan of Brunei, the mosque as a symbol of the Islamic faith in Brunei dominates the skyline of Bandar Seri Begawan. The building was completed in 1958 and is an impressive example of modern Islamic architecture.


Saturday, September 10, 2011

No Mosque Minarets allowed in Athens Greece


The Greek Parliament has approved controversial plans to build a new mosque in the capital of Athens to cater for the increasing demands of the Muslim population.

The long running argument regarding the construction of a mosque in Athens, Greece, has ended with Parliamentary approval for the building to go ahead. Until now Greece has remained the only original E.U. member state to not cater for its increasing Muslim population.
The border crossing with Turkey has become a first port of call for many illegal immigrants seeking entry to Europe. The resultant Muslim population has been forced to make alternative arrangements for worship to the mosque they have been demanding.
Despite vehement objections from many who oppose a mosque in the strictly Orthodox country, approval has been granted for a mosque to be built in Elaionas, an industrial district of Athens. However the mosque will be completed without the adornment of minarets.

Greece’s parliament on Wednesday approved the construction of a new mosque in Athens to satisfy a long-standing demand by thousands of Muslim residents, a government source said.

The project to build the Greek capital’s first official Muslim place of worship in decades was supported by 198 deputies from the centre, right and left (out of 300) against the objections of 16 nationalist MPs.

The mosque plan was included in an environment ministry bill regulating illegal construction, another long-running concern in Greece.

It calls for the renovation of an existing state building -- a disused military base -- in the run-down Athens industrial district of Elaionas.

Thousands of Muslims from Arab nations, Africa and the Indian subcontinent live and work in Athens without official prayer sites or a cemetery, despite years of promises by successive Greek governments.

Muslim faithful have crafted mosques out of rented flats and disused warehouses which are regularly targeted in racist attacks.

Anger towards migrants and attacks have escalated on the streets of Athens in recent months as the debt-hit country battles a growing recession that has brought thousands of job layoffs.

A staunchly Orthodox state with bitter memories of nearly four centuries of Ottoman Turkish rule, Greece currently offers sanctioned Muslim religious sites only near its northeastern border with Turkey where a Muslim minority of Turkish origin lives.

All traces of Islam were eradicated in Athens in the early 19th century when Christianity was restored, and bureaucratic wrangling and opposition from local church leaders and mayors have since stalled plans for a mosque and cemetery.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/311276#ixzz1XcTPrkMs

Wednesday, September 7, 2011