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Kanoute 4 Seville Mosque
8-21-2019
Twelve years ago, in 2007, the footballer Frederic Oumar Kanoute helped the Muslim community of Seville by purchasing a musallah. This is the converted commercial unit that has been serving the Muslims of the city until now.
Since then the community has grown bigger and with it the need and desire to have a dignified place of worship and a centre for the Muslim community. With this intention, Kanoute has joined this campaign to help the project become a reality - with your help, inshAllah.
The first purpose-built mosque in Seville after 700 years
The great legacy of Islam in Spain is still present in every city today, and which attracts millions of visitors every year. The contribution of this period of history (Al-Andalus), to the sciences, arts, philosophy, and society in general, are remarkable.
The context is now obviously different, and this Mosque and Cultural Centre will be a positive contribution by both serving the religious needs of Muslims and be open to all members of the community, including non-Muslims. Thus helping to dispel misconceptions about Muslims and Islam.
A benefit for Muslims from all over the world
Seville is the capital city of Andalusia, which attracts millions of international visitors each year. A large percentage of these visitors are Muslims.
The Muslim population of the city is around thirty thousand. Although there are several converted small spaces in the city for Muslims to pray, there is no purpose-built mosque to allow the Muslims to worship in a dignified way.
The Mosque and Cultural Centre will thus not only serve the religious needs of local Muslims, but also become a global centre, visited by the hundreds of thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims who visit Seville each year.
As the majority of the Muslims in Seville are first generation of immigrants with very limited financial means, the cost of building a Mosque and Cultural Centre is beyond their capacity - which is why we need your help.
About the Seville Mosque Foundation
The Seville Mosque Foundation was registered in 2004 with the aim of establishing a Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre in Seville.
For the past five years, the Seville Mosque Foundation has been working tirelessly on the project of the purpose-built Mosque and Cultural Centre. The project has been received with great enthusiasm from all corners of the world, however we are still short of our fundraising target.
Note: Seville Mosque is a registered charitable foundation in Spain. EU taxpayers should be able to get tax reliefs for donations to any charity in a EU country, in the same way as if you donated to a charity in your home EU country.
Many Muslims from many countries have heard about the Seville Mosque from the Kanoute connection, which is why his involvement in this campaign for the first purpose-built Mosque in Seville is so important to us.
The Kanoute story is now part of the modern history of Andalusia, we invite you to support this project and also become a part of the history of Andalusia. Make this a part of your Sadaqa Jariya.
You can learn more about the Muslims of Seville, this project and the campaign at:
www.mezquitadesevilla.com
Or Donate at https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/kanoute_4_seville_mosque#!/
This campaign will collect all funds raised by Aug 30, 2019 2:45 PM.
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