قبرص: غضب نصراني للمطالبة باسترداد أراضي مسجد أم حرام

أثارت مطالبة "المجلس الأعلى لمسلمي قبرص" باسترداد الأرض التابعة لمسجد "أم حرام" بمدينة "لارناكا" - غضب رئيس الأساقفة "كريزوستموس الثاني"، كبير الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية بـ"اليونان".

وجاءت مطالبة المجلس الإسلامي ردًا على تقارير أكدت سعي يونانيّ قبرص لبناء مركز ترفيهي على بُعد 20 مترًا من المسجد الأثري، الذي يحمل رموزًا وعلامات الدولة العثمانية.

وقد أكد "الإمام ساقب" المسؤول عن المسجد في تصريحاته لتليفزيون "سيجما" عدم ارتياحه لهذا المشروع، وأن بناء المركز الترفيهي بجوار المسجد يحمل أمارات عدم احترام لأماكن عبادة المسلمين، مطالبًا البلاد باحترام أماكن عبادة المسلمين كدولة أوروبية؛ ولذلك فقد طالب وزير الداخلية بتسليم "تكية هالة سلطان" وما حولها من أراضي تابعة لها للمجلس الإسلامي برهانًا على احترام المسلمين.

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Muslims in Greek Cyprus want back mosque area

The 20-member association takes back the property around Hala Sultan Tekke in Larnaca, which Greeks reportedly plan to build an entertainment center.

Muslims in Greek Cypriot side established "Cypriot Supreme Council of Muslims", demanding the property around the Hala Sultan Tekke, which angers the Greek archbishop.

The 20-member association takes back the property around Hala Sultan Tekke in Larnaca, which Greeks reportedly plan to build an entertainment center.

According to Turkey's Anadolu news agency, citing "Greek Simerini newspaper", "the association's emblem carries "flags of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman navy flag and a ship with Ottoman robe (kaftan)."

President of the Association, Imam Sakip talked to Sigma TV and expressed uneasiness with the desicion that the Greek Cypriot administration allowed an entertainment center to be built 20 meters from Hala Sultan Tekke. He has accused the Greek Cypriot side of not showing respect for the Muslim places of worship.

Imam Sakip said, "I would like to give this message to the Republic of Cyprus (Greek part) that you need to be an example of a European country," he said. In order to show this, Republic of Cyprus should hand over the keys of Hala Sultan Tekke and the property around it to the association," he said.

Applied for registration officially to Greek Interior Ministry, the association will initiate the procedures necessary to request hundreds of acres of surrounding property to the Hala Sultan Tekke in Larnaca Salt Lake area.

Archbishop angry

On the other hand, the report says Greek Orthodox Church Archbishop Chrysostomos II reacted to the establishment of the "Cypriot Supreme Council of Muslims" and its demands, as well as the accusations that directed towards him on the bad condition of Muslim places of worship.

Chrysostomos II claimed, if the members of the association to visit him, he will show them "how well the Muslim temples on the Greek Cypriot side and ready to be worshipped at any time."

Archbishop also said "he will show them that the Christian monuments from 12th, 13th and 14th centuries has been destroyed one after the other in the North."

Hala Sultan Tekke or the Mosque of Umm Haram is a very prominent Muslim shrine near Larnaca. Umm Haram was Prophet Muhammad's wet nurse.