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Slovenia inaugurates first mosque after 50 years

By alternativeafrica
February 4, 2020
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London, Feb. 4, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Slovenia first mosque opened in the capital Ljubljana on Monday after surmounting financial hurdles and right-wing opposition, 50 years after the initial request to build was made.

Opponents of the project, including those who criticised its Qatari financing, have repeatedly tried to halt it, and pig heads and blood have also been left on the site.

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Financed by Qatar, the first mosque in Slovenia opened in Slovenian capital Ljubljana (Image by Qatar Fund For Devt)

Islamic community head Mufti Nedzad Grabus said the mosque’s opening was “a turning point in our lives”.

“Slovenia is the last former Yugoslav state to get a mosque, making Ljubljana a capital rather than a provincial town on the edge of the world,” he told a press conference.

Muslims in the predominantly Catholic Alpine country first filed a request to build a mosque in the late 1960s while Slovenia was still part of former Communist Yugoslavia.

A general of a prayer room inside Slovenia’s first mosque in Ljubljana on Monday. Agence France-Presse

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The community finally received permission 15 years ago but ran into opposition from right-wing politicians and groups, as well as financial troubles.

Construction, which began in 2013, cost some 34 million euros ($39 million), out of which 28 million euros were Qatari donations, according to Gabris.

Situated in a semi-industrial area of Ljubljana, the mosque, which can hold up to 1,400 people, constitutes the core of the six-building Islamic Cultural Centre.

A picture taken on February 3, 2020, shows a general view of a lecture room inside Slovenia’s first mosque, designed by the Bevk Perovic Arhitekti architecture firm, in Ljubljana. Slovenia’s first mosque opened its doors in the capital Ljubljana on February 3, more than 50 years after the initial request to build it was made. (AFP)

The centre also comprises the community’s offices; an education centre, which includes a library; a restaurant; a basketball court; housing for the Muslim clerisy; and a 40-metre (131 feet) high minaret.

All the buildings are made from white concrete combined with steel, glass and wood. A large blue textile-made dome dominates the mosque’s interior, referring to heaven and reminiscent of famous mosques like Istanbul’s Blue Mosque.

Until now, Muslims, which make up 2.5 per cent of the country’s two million people, constituting the second biggest religious group, according to the last 2002 census, have been holding their ceremonies in rented sports halls or buildings.

(AFP)

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