new Islamic center, mosque in Croatia

          new Islamic center, mosque in Croatia


The head Imam of the Rijeka Islamic Union Hayrudin Muykanovich said that an attack was conducted by unidentified persons on the Islamic center and mosque which was inaugurated 20 days ago.

Muykanovich stated: “The Islamic Union has been found in Rijeka for 50 years.”

The Islamic Center was opened on May 4.

The center which cost 10 million euros is the third mosque in Croatia to have a minaret.

Construction of the complex with total area of 5.3 thousand square meters lasted three and a half years.

The complex involves a mosque, an Islamic center, a conference room, a restaurant, sports facilities and car park.

 

 http://islam.ru/en/

Crowds Attend Mosque Opening in Rijeka, Croatia

Thousands attended the weeend opening of a new Islamic centre and mosque in the city of Rijeka - the first mosque built on the shores of the Adriatic in more than five centuries.

Boris Pavelic

Zagreb

Between 20,000 and 30,000 Muslims and guests from all over the world, but mostly from Bosnia and Herzegovina, attended the celebrations marking the opening of the mosque in Rijeka.
The new Islamic centre and mosque, with a 23 metre-high minaret, was opened by the Croatian President, Ivo Josipovic, the Bosniak member of Bosnia's tripartite state presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic and Qatar's Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, Bin Mubarek Al Kuwari, who represented the Emir, the biggest donor to the institution.
The Rijeka Islamic Centre covers more that 10,000 square metres and cost about 10 million euro. The complex consists of a mosque, a multipurpose hall, a teaching room, kindergarden, library and other offices. The cornerstone was laid on October 3, 2009.
The late Dusan Dzamonja, a Croatian sculptor of Serbian origin, authored the architectural concept of the centre.
Media have dubbed it "the mosque on the Adriatic", recalling that it is "the first mosque on the Adriatic since the Ottomans left the coast 500 years ago".
Opening the centre, President Josipovic said that the Islamic faith and tradition form "part of Croatian history and, together with other minority traditions, enrich Croatian cultural identity".
Croatia is a good place for Bosniaks to live in and the opening of the centre sends a positive signal to the world, Izetbegovic said.
Qatari minister Al Kuwari expressed the hope that the Islamic centre would help to "correct false pictures about Islam and Muslims.
"Islam should follow a middle, moderate way", Al Kuwari said, urging Muslims in Croatia to act as a "bridge between the Muslim and non-Muslim world".
The speaker of the Croatian parliament, Josip Leko, the religious leader of Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Husein Kavazovic, Zagreb mufti Aziz Hasanovic and the president of the EU delegation in Croatia, Paul Vandoren also spoke, emphasising the importance of the Rijeka Islamic centre for multiculturalism, tolerance and mutual understanding in Croatia and the region.
More than 10,000 Muslims, mostly from Bosnia and Herzegovina, live in Rijeka and the surrounding area and the idea to build a mosque in Rijeka dates back more than five decades.
There are several Islamic communities in Croatia, and two more mosques, one in the small eastern Croatian town of Gunja, which was built during the 1960s, while another was built in 1987 in Zagreb to serve as a spiritual center for Croatian Muslims, who are the third biggest minority in Croatia, according to the 2011 census.

 

 

 http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/page/all-balkans-home

Islam in Montenegro Mosque Husein Pasha

Almost 20% of the Montenegrin population profess Islam as their faith, many being ethnic Muslims of the Sandzak area (which was partitioned between Montenegro and Serbia in 1913). Most of the ethnic Slav Muslims live in the Sandzak area, while ethnic Albanian Muslims live in the area bordering Albania and, Kosovo and Metohija. Muslims in Montenegro, and indeed Muslims in Serbia, are predominantly Sunni, although a Dervish sect, introduced in 1974, is popular. Montenegro is committed to the promotion of inter-ethnic relations. To enssure that the rights of all persons, without regard to their ethnic or national origin, are protected, a special provision was added to the Montenegrin Constitution especially ensuring the protection of all persons without regard to their national or ethnic origin. Muslims and Albanians are completely integrated into the political, economic and cultural life of the republic. Indeed, in the previous setting of the parliament, seven members were of Muslim faith. Likewise, the Executive Branch had Muslims in high positions. The Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Civil Service were both of the Muslim faith. There is a Council for the Safeguarding of the Rights of National Minorities, chaired by the President of Montenegro, established for the protection of national minorities and for the promotion of inter-ethnic relations.

http://www.montenet.org/religion/islam.htm

First Azan in Mosque in Sweden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Sweden

Mosque in Paramaribo, Suriname

http://wanderingtrader.com/2011/07/18/mosque-in-paramaribo-suriname/

Dearborn Mosque Michigan Picture

New Grand Mosque Strasburg France

ادى نحو 2500 مسلم صلاة الجمعة الاولى من شهر رمضان في مسجد ستراسبورج الجديد، الذي فتح ابوابه اليوم الجمعة، بعد الانتهاء من اكمال نقوشه وزينته الداخلية. وقال سعيد اعلى، رئيس الجمعية التي قدمت مشروع بناء المسجد، لجمهور المصلين هذا المسجد هو مسجدكم. اننا جميعا مختلفون ومن الوان مختلفة لكننا هنا كلنا مسلمون وننتمي الى هذا البلد وهو فرنسا. من جانبه قال اوليفييه بيتز مساعد رئيس بلدية ستراسبورج الاشتراكي لشؤون الديانات ان هذا المسجد الفخم هو مفخرة لستراسبورج ويسمح للمسلمين بممارسة شعائر دينهم بما يستحقونه من كرامة. ويقع هذا المسجد على بعد اقل من كيلومترين من الكاتدرائية على ضفاف نهر ايل وتعلوه قبة نحاسية كبيرة بقطر 16 مترا تحيط بها نتوءات مزينة بالهلال. لكن لا توجد له مأذنة. وقاعة الصلاة الكبرى في هذا المسجد خالية من اي اعمدة تحجب الرؤية عن المصلين وذلك بفضل شبكة كابلات دعامية هندسية خاصة. اما الجدران فهي مزينة بقطع الفسيفساء المغربية اليدوية الصنع. وجاءت المئات من السيدات للصلاة في طابق الميزانين المخصص للنساء. والعام الماضي استقبل المسجد الكبير، الذي لم تكن زيناته ونقوشاته الداخلية قد اكتملت بعد، المصلين في شهر رمضان ليغلق بعد ذلك من جديد بانتظار انتهاء الاعمال. اقرأ المقال الأصلي علي بوابة الوفد الاليكترونية الوفد - افتتاح مسجد ستراسبورج بفرنسا http://www.alwafd.org/دنيا-ودين/افتتاح-مسجد-ستراسبورج-بفرنسا http://www.mosquee-strasbourg.com/ http://www.rohama.org/en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg_Mosque

Conakry, Guinea Mosque

Conakry, Guinea Mosque

The Conakry Grand Mosque (French: Grande mosquée de Conakry / Mosquée Fayçal) is a mosque in Conakry, Guinea, located north of the Conakry Botanical Garden. It was built by Ahmed Sékou Touré, opening in 1982. It is the largest in West Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conakry_Grand_Mosque

No Mosque southern city of Marseille, home to the largest Muslim community in France.

A mock-up of the Grand Mosque of Marseille. A French court Thursday cancelled a construction permit for a mega-mosque in the southern city of Marseille that had been touted as a potential symbol of Islam's growing place in France.      

The 22-million-euro ($31-million) project would have seen the Grand Mosque, boasting a minaret soaring 25-metres (82-feet) high and room for up to 7,000 worshippers, built in the city's northern Saint-Louis area.

A French court has annulled the construction permit for a mega-mosque in the southern city of Marseille, home to the largest Muslim community in France.
The court ruling represents a major setback for proponents of the mosque, which has long been touted as the biggest and most potent symbol of Islam's growing place in France -- and Europe.
The move comes as a French newspaper published the contents of a leaked intelligence report about the rise of Islam in Marseille. The document states that "even if the number of individuals who have been radicalized to the point of supporting the Jihadists is relatively low, Islamic fundamentalism has progressed to the point where it has won over the majority of the Muslim population" who live in the city and who now number over 250,000.
The Administrative Tribunal of Marseille ruled on October 27 that the mega-mosque project would have to be cancelled because of failures to meet urban-planning requirements. The court raised particular concerns over the project's failure to finalize a deal for a 450-space parking lot and to reassure planners that the mosque would fit in with the urban environment.
The tribunal noted "a lack of graphical material permitting the evaluation of the project's integration with neighbouring buildings, its visual impact and the treatment of access points and land."
The 22-million-euro ($31-million) project would have seen the Grand Mosque -- boasting a minaret soaring 25 meters (82 feet) high, and room for up to 7,000 worshippers in a vast prayer hall -- built on the north side of the city's old port in
the city's northern Saint-Louis area, an ethnically mixed neighborhood that suffers from poverty and high unemployment.
Several decades in the planning, the project was granted a construction permit in November 2009. At the time, city officials said the new mosque would help the Muslim community better integrate into the mainstream and foster a more moderate form of Islam.
The first cornerstone of the 8,300 square meter (92,000 square feet) project was laid in May 2010. The elaborate stone-laying ceremony was attended by Muslim religious leaders and local politicians, as well as more than a dozen diplomats from Muslim countries.
Full-scale construction of the Grand Mosque -- which was also to have included a Koranic school and a library, as well as a restaurant and tea room -- was scheduled to begin in February 2012.
But the project has faced stiff opposition from local residents and businesses. Opponents of the Grand Mosque have argued that it would be out of harmony with the neighborhood's economic and social fabric.
Local residents also pointed to potential parking problems surrounding the building. Authorities have estimated that the number of people attending Friday prayers at the mosque could reach 1,500, a figure that could rise to up to 14,000 on Muslim holidays.
The court decision comes as the French newspaper La Marseillaise on October 24 published extracts of a leaked intelligence report about the state of Islam in Marseille, France's second-largest city, where the Muslim population has reached 25% of the total population.
The confidential seven-page document, drafted by domestic intelligence in the French administrative department of Bouches-du-Rhône in March 2011, focuses on the phenomenon of Muslim street prayers in Marseille, but also provides a more general assessment of Islam in the city.
The document also addresses a specific mosque on Gaillard Street in the 3rd district of Marseille that is associated with Muslim immigrants from the Comoros Islands, an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean that gained independence from France in 1975.
"Far from being Comorian, this mosque promotes Islam marked by tribalism. It is clear that this mosque is a direct obstacle to the proper integration of Comorians in the Marseilles area, a kind of voluntary marginalization," the document states.
The Koranic school associated with this mosque is also criticised: "Far from awaking spirituality and minds, it locks them even further into a cultural loop and thus increases their communitarian inwardness."
The report describes the Muslim population of Marseille as a "marginalized population, poorly informed, uncultured and with a limited understanding even of their own religion, finding themselves in the hands of self-proclaimed imams, barely more competent than their flocks but sufficiently charismatic to obtain their blind obedience."
The document also calls for fewer mosques in Marseille. It states: "The abundance of prayer rooms in Marseille is largely a reflection of divisions of all kinds: obediential as well as nationalistic, ethnic and even business strategies that set Muslims in Marseille against each other."
The proposed solution is to "refocus the places of worship" which would "permit a professionalization of the imams, achieve economies of scale and force the Islamic federations and sects to reach a consensus. It would marginalize extra-national interests and also facilitate relations and observations with our institutional partners. Not more mosques but better mosques."
Nevertheless, the report warns against the construction of a grand mosque: "This building would dominate an entire part of the city which is not very elevated. It would be visible from most of the surrounding main roads and would perform the call to prayer by using a massive beam of light that would be seen across Marseille. The mosque is generally considered aggressive to the point where a local referendum on the matter would give results at least equivalent and perhaps more emphatic than the voting organized in the Swiss confederation last year [the Swiss vote to ban minarets]."
The report says that building new mosques is only a solution if their architecture is "discreet" in order to "limit their visual impact on the urban landscape."
The document concludes by stating that Muslims in France appear to want the state to intervene in religious matters: "It is interesting to note that the majority of Muslims find it natural for the state to organize religious practice, even by force if necessary, and that many of them even declare that they do not understand the neutrality of France in this matter."

Great Mahmudiye Mosque Constanţa Romania

Great Mahmudiye Mosque

A landmark of the Turkish role in the region, the Great Mahmudiye Mosque (known also as Carol I Mosque) of Constanţa was built between 1910-1912, during the reign of King Carol I, as a copy of Konieh Mosque (Anatolia - Turkey), unique in the whole Dobrudja area. The faithful name it "Kral camisi" or "Geamia Regelui" (King's Mosque).

The mosque is the first building in Romania made of reinforced concrete, by engineer Gogu Constantinescu and architect Victor Ştefănescu. It is designed in Egyptian-Byzantine style, with some Romanian architectural features, making it one of the most distinctive mosques in the area. It features a 50 meter high minaret, built in Moorish style, which offers a stunning view of the old downtown and harbor. Five times a day, the muezzin climbs 140 steps to the top of the minaret to call the faithful to prayer.
The mosque is the seat of the Mufti, the spiritual leader of the 55,000 Muslims (Turks and Tatars by origin) who live along the coast of the Dobrudja region. The centerpiece of the interior is a large Persian carpet, over 200 years old, a gift from Sultan Abdul Hamid. Handmade woven at the Hereche Handicraft Center in Turkey, it is one of the largest carpets in Europe (9x16m), weighing 500 kg. The Carol I Mosque in Constanţa is the center of Islam in Romania.

http://surprising-romania.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-mahmudiye-mosque.html

Malaysia Floating Mosque

Malaysia

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/atlas-obscura/a-tour-of-great-and-impos_b_1116721.html?ref=islam#s450980&title=Sultan_Omar_Ali

Al-Dauwha New Mosque Mohamed Ibn-Abdel-Wahab Qatar

يفتح اليوم المسجد الجامع الكبير محمد بن عبد الوهاب، أبوابه للمصلين بمنطقة الجبيلات بالعاصمة القطرية الدوحة، لأداء أول صلاة جمعة به، لدى افتتاحه بمناسبة العيد الوطني، وسبق أداء الصلاة الاحتفال بتدشين الجامع الكبير، الذي يجسد تراث دولة قطر ومعمارها الإسلامي الأصيل، وحضر الصلاة أمير قطر الشيخ حمد بن خليفة آل ثان، والذي غادر المسجد عقب الانتهاء من أداء صلاة الجمعة مباشرة .
اقرأ المقال الأصلي علي بوابة الوفد الاليكترونية الوفد - فيديو.أداء أول صلاة بالجامع الكبير بالدوحة

http://www.qnaol.net/QNAEn/Local_News/Politics2/Pages/HHtheEmirInauguratesImamMuhamma16122011.aspx

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Doha, December 16 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani before noon today inaugurated the "Imam Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab" Mosque in Doha. HH the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and HH the Emir's Special Advisor, HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani attended the inauguration.
http://www.qnaol.net/QNAEn/Pages/default.aspx

Mosque, Cairo, Egypt