Without minaret or dome, the beige, rectangular structure in a former industrial area has none of the ornate grace typical of Islamic places of worship. However, this new Athens mosque (below) is now closed indefinitely.
Reuters The Greek authorities treat Islam and Muslims in Athens as a foreign body to be banished in the periphery of the city, expected to be content with a prefab concrete box similar to the ones that they use now (disused warehouses and garages).
Although there are mosques in other parts of Greece, the capital has not had a formal mosque since it drove out occupying Ottomans in 1833, and the few that are left have been repurposed.But for the Muslims of Athens, capital of Greece, it is the result of a long effort, and the city’s first formal mosque in more than 180 years.
Although there are mosques in other parts of Greece, the capital has not had a formal mosque since it drove out occupying Ottomans in 1833, and the few that are left have been repurposed. Plans to build a mosque began in 1890 with an act of parliament, but all fell through, including one timed for the 2004 Olympics.
Stymied by red tape, a financial crisis, a predominantly Christian Orthodox population and opposition from the rise of the far right of the country, getting approval for the mosque took years, forcing Muslims to pray at makeshift sites dotted across the city, ranging from crowded basements or dark warehouses.
More than 200,000 Muslims from countries including Pakistan, Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh live in the Greek capital, according to Muslim groups. Greece has its own Muslim community which represent about 2% of the population who live mainly in the north.
Efforts over the years to build a mosque in Athens sparked protests from groups on the right; a short distance from the mosque, graffiti scrawled on a wall read “Islam Out”.
“It looks nothing like a mosque .. But what is important is that there is a place for us to pray,” he told Reuters.
However, so far, nobody is praying in it. (Good!)
Also see: Greek officials refuse to allow Turkey to restore any Ottoman monuments in Greece of which there are about 20,000
Blow it up and haul out the rubble to make a deportation ramp for the moslems – – ship them back to Africa or wherever.
PROTECT Christian Europe! Kick Barbarian Savage Monster Turkey out of NATO!
Send in the combined military of nations and end EVIL Muslim Turkey’s ILLEGAL Occupation of Christian Cyprus. Now.
FREE CHRISTIAN CYPRUS!
DISGUSTING HYPOCRITES
In Muslim countries, Christians, Jews and other non Muslim innocents are severely persecuted by Muslims and live their lives in daily Fear and Terror of Muslims.
Sharia utterly de-humanizes all non Muslims and deprives non Muslims of human rights — the human rights that the HOLY ONE, our Wonderful Creator gave to humanity.
Greece is really being hammered hard by the globalist monsters.
I love Greece and Athens and especially the islands – most of which I no longer would even consider visiting.
I pray for Greece to stay strong, fight the invaders without giving them a micrometer, remember their history and the evil brought to bear on them by the Ottomans (read Turks) and that the Good Lord God Almighty blesses them in all of this.
Nothing more than a Barbaric Totalitarian Ideology of Savages Invented by a Warmongering PEDOPHILE worshipping an Arabic Moon God the god name Allah had existed several centuries before Mohammed co-opted it as the god of Islam. Allah was a truncated form of Al-Ilah, one of the 360 pagan deities worshipped by the nomadic pagan and polytheistic Arabs at the Kaaba in Mecca before, during, and after the time of Christ.Mohammed’s father was also named Abdullah (meaning “slave of Allah”.) A tribe of Jews was called Abdullah bin Salam in the Bukhari Hadith.
Convert the mosque to Greek Tavern, greek Beer, Greeces finest Wines “Retsina”, and some bbq pork ribs.
Christians living under Islam have it far worse, may not even be allowed to live. Muslums, shut up. Fix Islamoland first.
Good for Greece! They border Turkey, so they know these savages well.
One of the saddest parts of this story is learning that there is only one European Capital City that doesnt have a mosque, so in other words, every European Capital has at least one mosque and they most certainly wish to change that so that every City has a mosque because more and more of these savages are entering Europe and need a place to sniff each others rectum five times a day and the locals are expected to accept this as normal otherwise they are… you-know-what…
Ha, ha, ha, you are right they are butt sniffers!
Ok lets be fair they can have a mosque on the water . So when they go to mass tow the whole bunch back to the middle east or Africa which ever is closer . Then if they ask for another say you had one were is it. That is the one you belong in. Be better to never of heard of them before.
Maybe convert to a gay Muslim bathhouse . Islam sucks
Good on them for keeping the pricks at bay, I will say it again Fuck islam, Fuck there muftis, Its an uplifting story, whith all the other shit going on in Europe,
Nasty Filthy Animals – Is Lam!