PM inaugurates 50 more model mosques

City Desk :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday inaugurated 50 more model mosques and Islamic cultural centres across the country as part of her government’s programme to spread true message of Islam.

She opened the model mosques and Islamic cultural centres in the sixth phase during the National Imam Conference and Prize Giving Ceremony-2023, reports UNB.

Imam of the Masjid Al-Nabawi in Medina Sheikh Dr Abdullah bin Abdur Rahman Al-Bua’Yjan was with the prime minister during the event.

Religious Affairs Ministry organised the function at the Bangabandhu Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre at Rupganj of Narayanganj. Three pandals have been set up at the venue.

After reaching the venue, the prime minister first visited the pandels along with the Imam of the Masjid Al-Nabawi in Medina.

Both the premier and the imam spoke briefly to the Imams gathered at the venue from different parts of the country.

She thanked the imams for coming to join National Imam Council and urged them to pray for wellbeing of the country and its people.

“Pray to Allah that the development of the country being carried out by the government goes on,” she said.

PM Hasina also thanked the custodian of the two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Monday’s opening of the mosques raised the number of such model mosques to 300.

The government has taken up a programme of building 564 model mosques and Islamic centres across the country.

The PM unveiled 50 mosques each in the first phase on 10 June, 2021, in the second phase on 16 January this year, in the third phase on 16 March, in the fourth phase on 17 April and in the fifth phase on July 30.

The construction of the remaining mosques and Islamic cultural centres is scheduled to be completed by June 2024.