The Moroccan Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, Ahmed Al-Tawfiq, stated on Wednesday that the number of mosques in the country is more than 51,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that there is a need to build about 200 mosques annually, improve the infrastructure of existing mosques and restore a number of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al-Tawfiq pointed out that there are about 2,216 closed mosques, and 723 of them are in the process of being rehabilitated to reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Moroccan Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, Ahmed Al-Tawfiq, stated on Wednesday that the number of mosques in the country is more than 51,000. He added that there is a need to build about 200 mosques annually, improve the infrastructure of existing mosques and restore a number of them. Al-Tawfiq pointed out that there …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":86783,"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":[18],"tags":[65,147,501],"class_list":["post-86782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-africa","tag-morocco","tag-mosques"],"yoast_head":"\n