Brussels, April 10, 2013
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In spite of the current property crisis, building of one of the biggest mosques in Europe is planned in Ireland—just ten kilometers north of Dublin, in a place called Clongriffin.
In Belgium, work on the building of a mega-Mosque in Liege—the third largest city in the country—are to begin very soon. The biggest mosque in Wallonia will be built on an area of 11,000 square meters and, besides the main building that can accomodate 1,000 believers, it will include a library, a cafe and several shops. The call to prayer will resound from an 18-meter tall minaret. The mayor of Liege has banned the march against building of this mosque which was planned for March 30.
In Hamburg, Germany, the former Capernaum Church will be converted into a mosque. In Munich, in the south of Germany, politicians are choosing the site for building a giant Islamic complex with a mosque: its construction on the area of 6,000 square meters will cost 40 million euros. Only 120 people took part in the protest demonstration against building of the mosque, organized by the civil platform "Die Freiheit Bayern", on March 24.
In Greece—a bankrupt country— the government has undertaken to spend 1.1 million euros on building of a legal mosque in Athens.
In Scotland, the Episcopal parish of St. John in Aberdeen has become the first one in the United Kingdom that agreed to share its premises with Muslims who will be able to pray inside the church five times a day.
In Spain, in the Basque town of Portugalete, Muslims opened a Mosque on March 21 in spite of local residents' protests. According to statistics, every fourth Basque is against building of Mosques in his or her neighborhood and every fifth Basque would not like to have a Muslim as his or her neighbor.
In Valencia, the third largest city of Spain, the Ahmadiyya community opened a new mosque on March 29. On the day of its opening, the spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said that the number of Muslims in Spain would double in 20 years and that there was a possibility that Islam would predominate in this country once more.
New mosques are also being built in Catalonia, Luxemburg, Switzerland and other places.
