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Caucasian Muslims Board issues statement on communities functioning in Ashurbey and Mushvigabad mosques

31 January 2014 11:39 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Mubariz Aslanov – APA. Caucasian Muslims Board has issued a statement on the communities functioning in Ashurbey and Mushfigabad mosques.

The press service told APA that the media outlets had recently disseminated various reports that Caucasian Muslims Board fails to control the communities functioning in Ashurbey and Mushfigabad mosques and appoint religious leaders to these mosques.

CMB said that the aforementioned mosques aren’t included in the organizational structure of the Board. Though warned several times, the communities of these mosques didn’t register according to the rules defined by the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations and CMB didn’t appoint religious leaders to these mosques.

“As a result of illegal actions of a group of persons gathered at Mushfigabad mosque, once existed religious community was forced to dissolve itself.

Ashurbey and Mushfigabad mosques aren’t included in the organizational structure of the CMB for these reasons, thus we didn’t appoint religious leaders to them. CMB doesn’t know those representing themselves as imams and akhunds of these mosques,” he said.