mosques

Turkey to build Crimea’s largest mosque
Turkey is going to fully finance the construction of Crimea’s largest mosque, Crimea's Grand Mufti said on Sunday. Crimea Autonomous Republic’s Grand Mufti Emir Ali Ablayev said that the Russian administration approved the project, which they had been trying to implement for 10 years, from before...
Giray's Faith — the roots of moderate Islam of the Crimean Tatars are buried in the history of this people
29/07/2015
Zyndzhyrly medrese
The legend has it that Islam proliferated in Crimea owing to two associates of Prophet Muhammad Malik al-Ashtar and Ghazi Mansour as early as the 7th century A.D. Yet it is more likely that the peninsula turned Muslim owing to Turks rather than Arabs. It came as a result of a conquest in the 13th...
Historical Mosque Of Eupatoria Attacked By Raiders
15/09/2014
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Members of religious community “Khan-Jami” affiliated with the famous Juma Jami in Eupatoria reported the raiders attack on the mosque. Dismissed members of the community report the illegal election of the new members, embezzlement, and the community’s forced submission to the newly created “...
Media War Against Muslim Organisations Launched in Crimea
24/06/2014
After 23 years of Ukrainian Muslim communities’ peaceful development (including those on Crimean peninsula), some Russian “experts” found a seminary of extremism there - all of a sudden. Who stands to gain from destabilization of interfaith relation on the peninsula? What does Mr. Silantyev strive...
In Crimea to Forbid Night Loud Azan Proclaiming
28/12/2009
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In Crimea they call to forbid use of loud speaking equipments at azan reading at night as it creates high noise level beside a mosque and displeases local residents. Nina Berestan the chief of a site of municipal hygiene of sanitarian-epidemic station, informed on it in her interview to the New...
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