ON ISLAM: MOSCOW – Lacking enough mosques to perform their prayers, Muslim worshippers in the Russian capital, Moscow, find no other option but to pray outside in the snow.
"We are asking the authorities to let us build new mosques, but they are ignoring our demands," Hasan Fakhritdinov, imam of Moscow’s Historical Mosque, told the BBC News Online on Thursday, March 22.
“Now people have to pray outside in the rain or the snow."
Moscow is home to a Muslim minority of more than two million, one of Europe’s biggest cities with Muslim concentration.
But the city has only four mosques, which cannot cope with the flow of worshippers on Fridays.
This forces many worshippers to pray outside the mosque in the freezing weather. » | OnIslam & News Agencies | Thursday, March 22, 2012
