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Muslims in Paphos, a city on the southwest coast of the Mediterranean island country of Cyprus, are calling on authorities to speed up ongoing upgrading work in the area of the Paphos Mosque, which has almost ground to a halt.<\/p>\n

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Muslims in Paphos, a city on the southwest coast of the Mediterranean island country of Cyprus, are calling on authorities to speed up ongoing upgrading work in the area of the Paphos Mosque, which has almost ground to a halt.<\/h4>\n

They say it is affecting their ability to pray and gather together at special times, including Ramadan which started in Cyprus on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/h4>\n

A member of the committee of the mosque who only wished to be identified as Ali, said that despite promises by officials that work would be completed in two months, nine months on work seems to have almost stopped.\u00a0<\/h4>\n

\u201cWe have even said that we will pay for the mosque to be fixed ourselves, but the authorities have said no. I don\u2019t think the company responsible has any money, they have problems and during Ramadan the mosque will be full and used 24 hours a day,\u201d he told the Cyprus Mail.<\/h4>\n

Work in the area is tied up with unifying and upgrading the archaeological sites in Kato Paphos, including the much talked about walkway over the main road, which will connect Fabrica Hill with other sites of interest.\u00a0<\/h4>\n

Paphos councillor Andreas Chrysanthou said that work had been affected in the area, as the responsible company had \u201crun out of money.\u201d\u00a0<\/h4>\n

\u201cWe (the council) have heard that they are on their way to bankruptcy and are about to go into administration. We have no jurisdiction over this, it\u2019s down to the central government and they have to sort it out,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/h4>\n

In 1934 a Turkish fisherman converted one room of his house into a place of worship. Following a wave of Muslims to Paphos as political (and other) refugees, the entire house was years later converted into a place of worship, after permission was given by Health Minister Christos Patsalides, Chrysanthou said. It is now referred to as the Paphos mosque.<\/h4>\n

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