With just one mosque, Belgrade's Muslims are forced to improvise


  • World
  • Wednesday, 15 Nov 2017

Muslim women inside a makeshift mosque during Friday prayers in the district of Borca in Belgrade, Serbia, September 29, 2017. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

BELGRADE (Reuters) - In the shadow of a demolished mosque, three dozen men gathered in a house in a gloomy district of northern Belgrade. The Muslim call to prayer drifted out through the open door.

"This was a family home. We can pray in it, but it's (the building) not legal," said Hilmija, a 47-year-old Muslim and member of Serbia's Roma minority, as he entered. "It's humiliating."

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