The problem of an acute shortage of prayer rooms for Muslims in Moscow and other Russian cities requires a solution. Asphalt services in the open air are held not only on Friday and Muslim holidays in the territories adjacent to the mosques. Increasingly, amateur videos of Muslims praying in various public places, such as playgrounds, shopping malls or the subway, are leaked on the Internet, and some particularly impressionable residents of the capital often have inadequate reactions to this.

Let us remind you that five times daily prayer, as well as Friday services, are religious prescriptions that every believer must strictly observe, regardless of where he is. Therefore, in the absence of mosques, people are forced to pray wherever they have to.

How it is planned to solve this burning problem in the Russian capital was told today by the TV channel "Moscow 24" , voicing the position of the Moscow Government.

- The road is not close to any of the mosques, complains one of the heroes of the report, Muscovite Ravil Nevretdinov . - Imagine, from Maryino or from Tekstilshchikov go through the whole of Moscow. I would like to fulfill my religious duties right next to my house, going out into the street and driving a few stops ...

The TV channel gave the floor to both opponents and supporters of the construction of mosques in Moscow.

Thus, according to Roman Silantyev , in general, followers of Islam have enough "temporary prayer rooms" that could provide (it is not clear at whose expense) the administration of shopping centers or markets.

“This position is more reasonable,” Silantyev believes, “because the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Moscow are not citizens of Russia. It's just that today there are such numbers of migrants in Moscow, but tomorrow they will not. "

According to Roman Silantyev, mosques should be built only "for the indigenous population." Let us remind you that Sergei Sobyanin , who was approved as mayor in 2010, said that four mosques in Moscow are quite enough for Russians. More than 10 years have passed since then, and the demand for mosques has only increased.

According to the report, the Russian Orthodox Church shares the position of Silantyev - they say, first you need to understand how many people actually come to pray.

“There are Muslims - with Christians, the same situation is - churched and not very much, that is, practitioners or people with some Muslim consciousness,” said the rector of the Orthodox church in Mitino Stakhiy Kolotvin . - If all Orthodox Christians, according to the self-identification of Moscow, want to enter churches and fill them, then they will not technically fit even into all the churches of the Russian Federation.

By the way, it is the comparison between the two above-mentioned confessions that adds ambiguity to the situation and causes misunderstanding among followers of Islam and human rights organizations. In Moscow, a program for the construction of two hundred Orthodox churches within walking distance is being implemented, which is designed to create convenience for some believers, while other believers are stubbornly denied land allocation. In 2012, in the same district of Mitino, Orthodox activists, together with local residents, held a protest against the construction of a mosque. Previously, similar events took place in the Lyublino area. In both cases, the city authorities canceled the issued permits for the construction of Muslim temples.

Another participant in the discussion, an Orthodox public figure Andrei Kuraev , disagrees with the position of Silantyev and Kolotvin. In his opinion, it is necessary to build full-fledged mosques, where "proven personnel" will serve.

- The emergence of official mosques is a form of struggle with unofficial mosques, which will no longer be in apartments, and that there would be verified cadres who would speak about Islam in such a way that they would not want to scream in pain from this, ”said Kuraev.

It is interesting that, according to the authors of the report, five mosques (including two mosques of one temple complex in Otradnoye) and 150 prayer houses for Muslims are now open in Moscow. The bbabo.net news agency commented on this order of numbers by the chairman of the local religious organization of Muslims "Cultural Center" Generation " Almaz Abdrakhmanov , who is familiar with the real situation in the Muslim community of Moscow.

- Perhaps the report was referring to catering establishments or halal butcher shops. But there are only a dozen specialized rooms for holding prayers, including collective ones. I know of only two premises that were transferred to Muslims with the participation of the state - the Dar cultural center, which is not a place of worship, and the JSMR residence headed by Mufti Albir Krganov, as well as prayer rooms at Moscow airports, ”the religious leader explained.

According to him, at present, Moscow's Muslims are solving the problem of the lack of places for prayer "who is in what is what".- There are about ten local religious organizations that rent small premises at their own expense, some of which do not exceed 40 square meters. At the moment, many of the registered MROMs are in fact unable to purchase or even rent premises to carry out their statutory activities, Abdrakhmanov said.

The Muslim community in Moscow has long noticed that the Moscow administration is somehow especially zealous in appealing to democracy and the opinion of the townspeople when it comes to the construction of mosques. And for example, the notorious South-East Expressway, which became known as "radioactive" because of the work on the site of the nuclear burial ground of the Moscow Polymetal Plant, is being erected in spite of the protests, carrying out active explanatory work with Muscovites using all the media resources available to the city. The same applies to the introduction of paid parking and other controversial issues of urban planning policy. As for the problems that periodically arise with the construction of Orthodox churches, they are also solved by offering alternative options that suit all interested parties.

Therefore, the attitude to the problem raised on the Moscow TV channel is expressed in one catchphrase - " would be would desire , but there will be an opportunity."

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