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Copenhagen's City Council has approved the planning permission
for the city’s first ever mosque, featuring traditional
minarets, an Iranian cleric based in the Danish capital said on
Friday.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Copenhagen's City Council has
approved the planning permission for the city’s first ever
mosque, featuring traditional minarets, an Iranian cleric based
in the Danish capital said on Friday.
The head of the Imam Ali Center in Copenhagen, Hojjatoleslam
Mahdi Khademi said the 2,000 square meter-mosque is to include
two 32m-tall minarets and a blue dome.
The privately funded mosque will be named Imam Ali mosque,
according to Khademi. There are around 250,000 Muslims living in
Denmark of which 80,000 are Shia, he added.
The mosque will reportedly feature a prayer room, amphitheatre,
conference room, library and accommodation for visiting Imams.
For over 20 years, Muslims have been denied a permit to build
mosques in Copenhagen.
There are also no Muslim cemeteries in Denmark, so the remains
of Muslims have to be flown back to their home countries for
proper burial.
Source:
http://www.abna.ir
Date: 2010/04/20
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