Kirovsky…

Hadrat Ilias

It was -20 degrees and last Monday Jimi,Usen,Ete and me went to the mosque in Lingaranskaya to meet up with Volgorad’s mufti, Hadrat Ilias to give him another collection of donations for the building of Kirovsky mosque.

The mufti offered us to see the site in Kirovsky after that, at first by van(mashrutka)but alhamdulillah, when we’re leaving a man came to pray in the mosque who coincidentally is a taxi driver working in Kirovsky(what are the chances,it was like more than 20kms away),so we waited for him to finish praying and he took us there for free.

Taxi

It was the first time that I rode a taxi in Russia that plays a ceramah(in Russian) and Quran recitations (actually I never rode a taxi in Malaysia playing a ceramah), but better was the story of the cab driver..how he worked in socialist factory without missing a solat (it seems that driving a cab is the profession of choice for Muslims here so that their prayer time will not be affected)

The mosque

After 40 minutes (of me sitting on Ete’s superior anterior iliac bone and Usen sitting on mine) we arrived at the site. It was a good site indeed, before this we thought that it’d be further ahead, around Firuz’s(our Tajikistani friend) but it’s actually near the main road. It can be reached by almost every “C” (anyone in Volgograd will know what this mean) mashrutkas.

The foundation

Hadrat Ilias showing the site

with Hadrat Ilias

Mr Nazim

Then we went to Mr. Nazim’s Kvartira(apartment),the project manager for the Kirovsky’s mosque, a man in his 60-70s.he told us that they need approximately 15milllions roubles to build the whole mosque and now they have collected around 2millions,spending 1.5millions just for the plans and foundations.

The project is now on hold because of the weather, why? because to mix cement with ice is impossible.Volgograd had been frozen(under -20) for the last few weeks. So until the temperature is at least 10 degrees the project will be postponed.

Malaysians had donated around 200 thousand roubles until now.

Wallahualam

ps: -RM1 is around 7.3Roubles now

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