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The biggest mosque in Russia opens on 24 June in Kazan as part of festivities marking the city’s 1,000th anniversary. The rebuilding of the Qol Sharif Mosque began nearly 10 years ago. Its opening prayers Friday will be one of the main events during the Tatarstan capital’s celebrations.
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Although not the first such incident in Naberezhnyye Chelny, the destruction of the Orthodox Church of St Tatyana on 1 October was “the first time the authorities took any notice,” the secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate’s local deanery has told Keston News Service. Naberezhnyye Chelny is the second largest city in the republic of Tatarstan, […]
Russia’s 1993 Constitution declares that the country is a secular state, and that religious associations are equal before the law. Yet latterly, there have been complaints that Russia’s state institutions are becoming markedly less secular and that, in the sphere of social service, the law is not being applied to all religious organisations in equal […]
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