Bulldozers plowed through the foundation for Bahrain\u2019s Al-Alawiyat Mosque on Tuesday, which was laid down by local Shia worshipers in the hope of erecting the previously destroyed structure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Bulldozers plowed through the foundation for Bahrain\u2019s Al-Alawiyat Mosque on Tuesday, which was laid down by local Shia worshipers in the hope of erecting the previously destroyed structure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Al-Alawiyat was among dozens of Shia religious gathering places that were razed to the ground during the onset of Bahrain\u2019s uprising in 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The widespread destruction was part of Manama\u2019s crackdown against dissent within the country\u2019s Shiite community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shiite worshipers had routinely returned to the site of the Al-Alawiyat Mosque to hold evening prayers and were working to reconstruct the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bulldozers plowed through the foundation for Bahrain\u2019s Al-Alawiyat Mosque on Tuesday, which was laid down by local Shia worshipers in the hope of erecting the previously destroyed structure.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bulldozers plowed through the foundation for Bahrain\u2019s Al-Alawiyat Mosque on Tuesday, which was laid down by local Shia worshipers in the hope of erecting the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[54,512,501,251,79],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-bahrain","tag-destroy","tag-mosques","tag-prayer","tag-shia"],"yoast_head":"\n