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State Committee: Religious community of Rahima Khanum sanctuary in Nardaran to be registered

21 January 2016 12:24 (UTC +04:00)

In accordance with the law, the district executive authority provides a reference to the community about where to refer to, then the reference, along with the other documents, are presented to both the Caucasian Muslims Office and the State Committee.

“After that, the community is considered to have officially registered and a relevant [confirmative] document is presented to it. Today I spoke to the head of the district’s executive authority. The process is in progress. For the community to be registered, a minimum of 50 of its members are required to request so. 53 people from the Rahima Khanum sanctuary have filed requests. The requests are being reviewed and will be registered,” said Gurbanli.

The committee’s chairman noted that once this community is registered, another meeting will be held in Nardaran. The meeting will include talks for similar problems to be solved of other Nardaran mosques whose communities are not registered.

Note that, following the incidents in Nardaran, only one mosque in the suburb town — the Jumah Mosque — was permitted to remain open for worshipers as it was officially registered. The other mosques (or sanctuaries) — Rahima Khanum, Gulam Ali, Kicik, and Agha — were shut down for lacking registration. Kamal Abdullayev, the state adviser for interethnic, multicultural and religious issues, and State Committee Chairman Mubariz Gurbanli have made a visit to the town and had a talk there with a group of believers and elders.