Azerbaijan, Baku, April 4 / Trend , K.Zarbaliyeva/
Religion and Conscience Freedom Protection Centre (RCFPC) protests against the Yasamal District Administration officials' razing the Prophet Muhammad Mosque which was allegedly built illegally.
"If a mosque has been already constructed and it has problems with documents, one must not raze the mosque, but solve a problem with documents," RCFPC Chairman and Icharishahar Juma Mosque Imam Haji Ilgar Ibrahimoglu's statement said.
On Nov. 28, the Yasamal District Court passed a verdict supporting the Yasamal District Administration's request to raze the Muhammad Prophet Mosque at 190 Murtuza Mukhtarov St.
A non-residential building will be built on the property.
Mosque representatives lodged a complaint with the Baku Appeals Court requesting that the Yasamal District Court's verdict be annulled and a new decision be passed.
Without the court's decision, the Yasamal District Administration head and officials arrived at the mosque and knocked down its gates. They also tore down the image of the Koran on the mosque's entrance and the board with its name at 19:00 on March 30.
It is illegal to raze the mosque before the court's decision has come to power, lawyer Mukhtar Mustafayev told Trend earlier.
Ibrahimoglu noted in the statement that to raze a mosque not only contradicts morality and faith, but also it damages Azerbaijan's image, as Baku has been chosen the Islamic culture capital in 2009.
"It is inadmissible to treat so with faith places," Ibrahimoglu stressed.
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