Moscow Cathedral Mosque to Re-open a 20-fold In Size

I haven’t heard any protests from global Islamophobes … oops, they are quite busy in Europe with Syian refugees, in Britain for military intervention in Syria and good-ole USA with Pamela Geller, GOP presidential hopefulls and of course a Texas student building a digital clock and gets arrested.

Moscow Cathedral Mosque to be reopened on Eid al-Adha

On the eve of the Muslim holy feast of Eid al-Adha, re-opening ceremony of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, with the President of the Russian Federation and foreign leaders is scheduled in September 2015.

In the year of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory over fascism of our people, through 111 years after its opening, a renewed Moscow Cathedral Mosque – the Main, by definition of President Vladimir Putin, in Russia Mosque reopens the doors of prayer rooms for Muslim believers, for guests from around the world.

Start of forming the Muslim community of Moscow dates from the early Middle Ages. The evidence became extant Tatar names of streets, historic buildings farmsteads, Arab and Turkish embassies. To 1894 refers the application by the Second Imam of Muslim parish Bedretdinov Alimov for permission to organize a mosque in the northern parts of the then Moscow.

Long correspondence ended in a compromise: the authorities gave the green light to build a mosque on private land in the alley Vypolzov, which in 1902 had been bought for this purpose by Kasimov Tatars entrepreneurs H.M. Baibekov, H.H. Akbulatov and S.V. Bakirov; for these purposes, they spent 35 thousand rubles.

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The mosque was a sample of the Tatar religious architecture of the early XX century. Prayer hall was designed for 800 people during the holiday services over 1,000 worshipers were praying inside the mosque. The mosque, even in the harshest years of persecution of religion was not closed a single day, although the millstones of repressions hit imams Abdulvadud Fattakhiddin and Abdullah Suleiman.

Moscow Cathedral Mosque remembers such prominent ulems and muftis like Galimzhan Baroudi, Rizaetdin Fakhretdin, Musa Bigiyev and others. The Mosque on Vypolzov lane for many decades was the only Muslim working temple on the vast expanses of the Central European part of Russia.

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Under the leadership of Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin a grandiose project of reconstruction of the building the mosque and its extension has been implemented. It was approved and supported by the Russia President Vladimir Putin and number of senior political and religious leaders of the world.

Under the project, the total area of the mosque after reconstruction is 18 900 square meters (before the reconstruction of the mosque area was equal to 964 square meters).

This beautiful six-story mosque, equipped with seven lifts and everything necessary for the parishioners, as well as equipment for people with disabilities. The height of the dome is 46 meters, and diameter – 27 meters. Available space in the mosque will fit up to 10 thousand worshipers at a time.

Many believers have contributed to the construction of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, sacrificing their personal funds. Their names are written in the Golden Book of Memory mosque.

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Moscow Central Mosque to reopen on eve of Eid | Hürriyet News |

Moscow’s Central Mosque will reopen on the eve of Eid al-Adha, also called the Feast of Sacrifice, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan among the guests attending the event, Anadolu Agency has reported.

The ceremony will also be attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders, the agency said.

The mosque – also known as Moscow Cathedral Mosque and the Moscow Jum’ah Mosque – was demolished four years ago and has been rebuilt to house 10,000 worshippers. The reopening on Sept. 23 will see a new complex 20 times larger than its predecessor at 19,000 square meters.

The Turkish Diyanet Foundation, an agency of Turkey’s religious affairs directorate, helped with the mosque’s interior design.

“In fact, Turkey’s president will participate in the opening ceremony of a mosque in Moscow and he will also have a meeting with the Russian president; they will have a bilateral discussion,” Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday, TASS reported.