Islam in Moldova
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According to the US Department of State, there is a small community of Muslims in Moldova
, numbering a few thousand.
In 2005 the Spiritual Organisation of Muslims in Moldova headed by Talgat Masaev was denied registration despite of the appeal of the Mission to Moldova of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
In March 2011, Liga Islamica (Islamic League), an NGO representing Moldova's Muslims, was officially registered by the Moldovan Justice Ministry last month as the first legally recognized Muslim association in Moldova. It had applied for registration in 2008.
Officially there are just 2,000 Muslims living in Moldova. But the Islamic League says the number is closer to 17,000, though not all of them are registered as Muslims because previous governments considered Islam to be illegal.
The Moldovan Orthodox Church
opposed the recognition of Islam
and joined protests with conservative group.
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
, numbering a few thousand.
In 2005 the Spiritual Organisation of Muslims in Moldova headed by Talgat Masaev was denied registration despite of the appeal of the Mission to Moldova of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
In March 2011, Liga Islamica (Islamic League), an NGO representing Moldova's Muslims, was officially registered by the Moldovan Justice Ministry last month as the first legally recognized Muslim association in Moldova. It had applied for registration in 2008.
Officially there are just 2,000 Muslims living in Moldova. But the Islamic League says the number is closer to 17,000, though not all of them are registered as Muslims because previous governments considered Islam to be illegal.
The Moldovan Orthodox Church
Moldovan Orthodox Church
The Moldovan Orthodox Church is an autonomous church under the Russian Orthodox Church, whose canonic territory covers the Republic of Moldova....
opposed the recognition of Islam
Islam
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and joined protests with conservative group.