An official of the Architecture Department of Ashgabad's Kopetdag District Hyakimlik put the phone down before Forum 18 News Service could ask about the destroyed Aksa Mosque.
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| File photo: Goaldcoast mosque demolition |
Source/Credit: Forum 18 News Service
By Felix Corley | April 14, 2016
In early April, Aksa Mosque in Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabad became the eighth of the city's mosques to have been summarily destroyed in the city in recent years.
The Mosque – built in the early 1990s with donations from local Muslims – could accommodate 100 worshippers.
Demolition workers from the Hyakimlik (administration) justified the demolition by telling local people that "this mosque has been built without any kind of permission", Radio Free Europe's Turkmen Service noted.
No one over 23 years had mentioned any illegality in the construction, insisted a 70-year-old local resident who had been involved in the Mosque's original construction.
"But now, under a pretext, they are destroying the building considered to be God's house," Iolaman-aga told Radio Free Europe.
An official of the Architecture Department of Ashgabad's Kopetdag District Hyakimlik put the phone down before Forum 18 News Service could ask about the destroyed Aksa Mosque.
The demolition was completed as Turkmenistan's new Religion Law entered into force on 12 April.
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