{"id":8636,"date":"2020-02-04T13:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8636-slovenia-s-1st-mosque-opens-after-50-years\/"},"modified":"2020-02-04T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:21:16","slug":"slovenia-s-1st-mosque-opens-after-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8636-slovenia-s-1st-mosque-opens-after-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia&#8217;s 1st Mosque Opens After 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Slovenia&#8217;s first mosque opened in the capital Ljubljana on Monday after surmounting financial hurdles and right-wing opposition, 50 years after the initial request to build was made.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Slovenia&#8217;s first mosque opened in the capital Ljubljana on Monday after surmounting financial hurdles and right-wing opposition, 50 years after the initial request to build was made.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the project have repeatedly tried to halt it, and pig heads and blood have also been left on the site.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic community head said the mosque&#8217;s opening was &#8220;a turning point in our lives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Slovenia is the last former Yugoslav state to get a mosque, making Ljubljana a capital rather than a provincial town on the edge of the world,&#8221; he told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims in the predominantly Catholic Alpine country first filed a request to build a mosque in the late 1960s while Slovenia was still part of the former Communist Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n<p>Situated in a semi-industrial area of Ljubljana, the mosque, which can hold up to 1,400 people, constitutes the core of the six-building Islamic Cultural Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovenia&#8217;s first mosque opened in the capital Ljubljana on Monday after surmounting financial hurdles and right-wing opposition, 50 years after the initial request to build was made. 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