New mosque opened in Greece
March 16, 2009 by Anna
The first mosque in Kalamata, Greece, “Quba”, has opened on March 13, 2009 and is hosting approximately 1000 Muslims mostly comprising of Syrians and Egyptians. The hall, which is 150m², gathers Muslims to pray, discuss, learn and educate their children.
This is a very important step for the Muslim community in Greece to unite, form associations and acquire acceptance, respect and religious freedom from the Greek society.
Although the people of Kalamata have lived in harmony with the Muslim population for many years, there was no prayer location up until now.
The Muslim Association of Greece visited them yesterday to welcome its new members and guest Imam at the Friday prayer and sermon.
The name and the activities of their association will be announced in the near future.
Bravo!!
Kalamata beats Athens to the punch!
I’ll dance the kalamatiano for that bit of good news.
Jamal
MASHALLAH! ALLAHU AKBAR,
i am deeply deeply touched!
Alhamdulilah
it is a very good news.
for Allah all is possible!! koun fayakoun
mabrouk..congratulations brothers and sisters..you guys -Greek Muslims- live in very very hard circumstances,I ‘ve been in Greece last summer,and I tell you my family and I had a very hard time there-as muslims-..people don’t like us there man..my mom and sister ware the Hijab,so everywhere we go people looked at us funny man..I actually still can’t believe that u guys here r Greeks by origin!!..cause no matter how easy and free Greeks r, they come 2 a point were they act strictly as Orthodox with those non-Orthodox, even christians of other sectors..wish one day they will understand the real essence of Islam and deal with us better..
Salam..
Beautiful!