02/02/2016
Written during the domination of the Russian Empire, the official history of Odessa claims that The Empress Catherine II issued a rescript of the founding of the town in 1794. So, the first piles were pitched on September 2. This day is considered the birthday of the sea capital of Ukraine.
The...
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28/01/2016
Ukrainian Muslims filmed a video where they expressed their point of view on prejudice and speculations about Islam and Muslims that are very far from being true. Stereotyped and mostly negative perception of that religion and its followers does no good in terms of consolidating the society which...
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28/01/2016
It’s on this Friday Dnipropetrovsk will finally have a place where Muslims can always pray and learn the basics of religion and the Holy Qur’an and Arabic, and Non-Muslims can improve their knowledge of different cultures, on centuries of Islam in Ukraine, and on various peoples following the rules...
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19/01/2016
The history of the struggle for independence of Ukraine has a lot of good and bad pages. In 1918, the first time in two hundred years, Ukrainians could create their own state - Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR). But, from the first days of its existence, thousands of patriots had to defend the...
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12/01/2016
History of Islam in Ukraine is closely interrelated with Ukrainian independence. Before the late 1980s no single community officially existed in this part of the USSR. However, in 2014 around 700 Islamic communities were registered, including those on the Crimean peninsula. Since 1991, Muslims have...
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30/12/2015
Mrs. Manal Kanoo’, successfully completed reciting the Holy Book for her hafth Bin Asim degree, having become the fifth participant of the Qur’an reciting circle “Al-Firdaws” (facilitated by the Centre of Women Development “Maryam”) who received a respective certificate.
The event itself, with all...
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14/11/2015
A lot of people have come to the French Embassy in Ukraine after the tragic news that outraged the whole world. They came to honor the memory of victims who had suffered in series of terrorist attacks in Paris. There were also many Muslims there — they consider the murder of innocent people is a ...
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09/11/2015
It took about two weeks for the Women’s Social Organisation activists to collect clothes, footwear, money donations, provision and household appliances in order to bring them to pupils of two boarding schools and one baby orphanage. And on November 7, four fully packed cars left the Kyiv ICC yard...
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09/10/2015
The first evidences of existing of Islam on the lands of present-day Ukraine related to the Khazar Khaganate, arisen in the VII century. The birth of Khazaria issued from the collapse of the Western Turkic Khaganate. Initially, the territory of the new state was the area of the North Caucasus and...
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30/09/2015
A fall day of September 24 was filled with warmth coming from both the sun and the hearts of Ukrainian Muslims along with their adherents all over the world. With such mood of heartiness, friendship and mutual help, Eid al-Adha began with a festive prayer. People came in advance so they could...
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