Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept. 29 / Trend K.Zarbaliyeva /
The population of the Yeni Guneshli settlement has began to collect signatures in protest against the demolition of a Fatimeyi Zahra mosque located in Baku.
Referring to the fact that there is no other mosque in this area, the villagers demand to cancel the court's decision to demolish the mosque, head of the Fatimeyi Zahra religious community ,Tofig Rasizade, told Trend on Sept. 29.
According to Rasizade, the War Veterans' Public Association also appealed to the governmental agencies asking for assistance in resolving this problem.
The Surakhani District Executive Power appealed to the local Economic Court 2 to demolish the Fatimeyi Zahra mosque, located in the Yeni Gunashli settlement 33 of the Surakhani District.
The Surakhani District Executive Power states that the area where the mosque was constructed had been given to its possession at order of the Baku City Administration. The mosque was illegally built and the Surakhani District Executive Power appealed to the regional court to demolish the mosque and ancillary buildings in the territory.
Recently, the local Economic Court 2 satisfied the appeal of the Surakhani District Executive Power and made a decision to give the area to the pretender and demolish the Fatimeyi Zahra mosque, located in the Yeni Gunashli settlement 33 of the Surakhani District.
In 1996 the head of the Baku City Executive Power ordered to allocate the area in the village of Yeni Gunashli to construct the Fatimeyi Zahra mosque.
Necessary documents for the construction were prepared by the city authorities.
However, in late 2002, referring to non-use of the area for a long time the head of the Baku Executive Power, Hajibala Abutalibov, passed an order to cancel the previous order and to transfer the land plot to the possession of the Surakhani District Executive Power for constructing sports and entertainment complex.
Over the last year the mosque of our Prophet Muhammad and the mosque at the Oil Rocks were demolished in Baku as illegal facilities.
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