TBILISI, March 20 – Muslims in Georgia marked the Eid al-Fitr holiday on Friday, gathering for prayers in Batumi and other mosques across the Adjara region after completing a month-long fast. Since early morning, worshippers assembled at the Central Mosque in Batumi, where they held holiday prayers to mark the occasion. The celebration came after … Read more
TBILISI, DFWatch–The parliament in Georgia is to consider a proposal by a far-right group to ban the wearing of burqa and niqab in public. The bill was proposed by Emzar Kvitsiani, a member of parliament from the socially conservative political party Alliance of Patriots. The party is often accused of having pro-Russian sentiments, but party … Read more
TBILISI, DFWatch–The city hall in Georgia’s second largest city Batumi has rejected an application for permission to build a second mosque in the 150,000 strong city.
In the largely Muslim city there has been a several decades long conflict about whether to allow a second mosque.
BATUMI, DFWatch–One Sunday in December, Muslims are cramming into the Orta Jame mosque in Batumi. Despite a three decades long effort to get permission to build a second mosque, they still have only one mosque to go to despite the city’s sizable Muslim population.
ADIGENI, DFWatch–A dispute about the ruins of a mosque in the village Mokhe in the south of Georgia has deteriorated further after Christians began conducting prayer on the site.
Muslims began holding Friday prayers on the ruins two months ago and did not stop
TBILISI, DFWatch–Muslims in Mokhe in southern Georgia do not accept a compromise suggested by a government commission and continue to pray on the ruins of a mosque in the village.
Local Muslims and Orthodox Christians have disagreed for two years
TBILISI, DFWatch–A commission tasked with settling a dispute between Christians and Muslims over the ruins of a mosque in the south of Georgia delivered its recommendations on Thursday, but it is uncertain if this will help solve the two year old conflict.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Muslims in the village Mokhe in the south of Georgia on Thursday conducted a prayer on the ruins of a mosque which the local government in 2014 declared that it wanted to turn into a culture house.
The plans by local Orthodox Christians to appropriate
TBILISI, DFWatch–The beating of four Muslims by Georgian police may be brought up before the European Court of Human Rights after a human rights group in Georgia on Thursday filed a lawsuit at the Strasbourg court.
The four were detained by police during a village
TBILISI, DFWatch–Muslims and Christians have reached agreement about a cemetery in a village Adigeni, in the south of Georgia, after a tense standoff.
The communities agreed to have one common cemetery, which will be separated by a line.
Jambul Abuladze,