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Mosque Tours Launched in Sri Lanka

Mosque Tours launched Mosque Tours, a unique inter-cultural concept where Islamic religious places are opened to the public, was launched last Sunday at Wekanda Jumma Mosque in Slave Island. Henceforth Wekanda Mosque will have anopen mosque day every Sunday (morning and evening) when tourists could visit the mosque and be shown around by experienced tour guides. The first tour group …

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US: Alaska to get its first mosque

    After years of fundraising, the four-year construction of the state's first mosque is now near completion. The U.S. state of Alaska is due to get its first mosque in the town of Anchorage. The small Muslim community in the town have for years been performing congregational prayers in a rented space in a shopping mall, but the growing …

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Holy graves: Closer to peace or apocalypse?, By Ameen Izzdeen

Tension is building up in the occupied West Bank. Palestinians, especially the youth, are furious, because Israeli troops stopped them from visiting the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem — Islam’s third holiest place of worship. They fear that Israel is carrying out excavation and construction work at the al-Aqsa site with the ill-intention of causing permanent damage to the foundation of …

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