11 minutes agoChristian businessman builds mosques for Muslim workers
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)A Christian businessman in the United Arab Emirates has built a mosque so that Muslim employees do not travel to another country to perform their religious rituals. As foreign media write, Telegrafi notes, it is Syi Cheriyana of Indian descent who arrived in the Gulf State [...]
A Christian businessman in the United Arab Emirates has built a mosque so that Muslim employees do not travel to another country to perform their religious rituals.
As foreign media write, Telegrafi notes, it is Syi Cheriyana, of Indian background, who arrived in the Gulf State with just a few hundred dikes in 2003.
He built his business over the past 15 years, and when he noticed that the workers had to take taxis to the nearest mosque, he decided to build one for them.
“They must spend at least D20 (5.44) to go to the town of Fujairah or another industrial area to participate in jungle prayer. So, I thought it would make you happy if I built a mosque here near their shelter”, Cheriyaan said.
As it becomes known, the mosque in Fujairah has been built for 1.3 million dikes of $3543,000) and has room for 250 fans at the same time. In addition, 700 others could settle in its courtyard.
Construction work started more than a year ago and the mosque was eventually completed, once Ramadan began this year.
When the word spread around my mosque, many other people also offered money, construction materials and others. But I refused, because I wanted it to be built from my money”, said the businessman, whose net worth of wealth is estimated at $18 million.
