A big party with plenty of food is planned. The thought of it makes Malik smile. Then he goes outside to the two-meter-high fence that separates the mosque from the street in front of it.

“Some 20 years ago, the kanji was served in mud pots at the Big Mosque,” he remembers. “But as years went by, they switched to stainless steel, and then, reusable plastic.” A little after ...

“We take into account the populationdensity of a place to build the big mosques and that is for the residential cities. However, the commercial areas we do not prefer to set big mosques,” he adde ...