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February 15, 2008 in kirovsky, mosque | Tags: hadrat ilias, kirovsky, mosque, mufti | by volgomuslim | Leave a comment

Hadrat Ilias

It was -20 degrees and last Monday Jimi,Usen,Ete and me went to the mosque in Lingaranskaya to meet up with Volgorad’s mufti, Hadrat Ilias to give him another collection of donations for the building of Kirovsky mosque.

The mufti offered us to see the site in Kirovsky after that, at first by van(mashrutka)but alhamdulillah, when we’re leaving a man came to pray in the mosque who coincidentally is a taxi driver working in Kirovsky(what are the chances,it was like more than 20kms away),so we waited for him to finish praying and he took us there for free.

Taxi

It was the first time that I rode a taxi in Russia that plays a ceramah(in Russian) and Quran recitations (actually I never rode a taxi in Malaysia playing a ceramah), but better was the story of the cab driver..how he worked in socialist factory without missing a solat (it seems that driving a cab is the profession of choice for Muslims here so that their prayer time will not be affected)

The mosque

After 40 minutes (of me sitting on Ete’s superior anterior iliac bone and Usen sitting on mine) we arrived at the site. It was a good site indeed, before this we thought that it’d be further ahead, around Firuz’s(our Tajikistani friend) but it’s actually near the main road. It can be reached by almost every “C” (anyone in Volgograd will know what this mean) mashrutkas.

The foundation

Hadrat Ilias showing the site

with Hadrat Ilias

Mr Nazim

Then we went to Mr. Nazim’s Kvartira(apartment),the project manager for the Kirovsky’s mosque, a man in his 60-70s.he told us that they need approximately 15milllions roubles to build the whole mosque and now they have collected around 2millions,spending 1.5millions just for the plans and foundations.

The project is now on hold because of the weather, why? because to mix cement with ice is impossible.Volgograd had been frozen(under -20) for the last few weeks. So until the temperature is at least 10 degrees the project will be postponed.

Malaysians had donated around 200 thousand roubles until now.

Wallahualam

ps: -RM1 is around 7.3Roubles now

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Assalamualaikum..

February 15, 2008 in kirovsky, volgograd | Tags: kirovsky, muslim, volgograd | by volgomuslim | Leave a comment

VOLGOGRAD

Volgograd ialah sebuah bandar yang terletak di tebing Sungai Volga di tengah-tengah Volgograd Region. Diasaskan pada 1589 sebagai dengan nama Tsaritsyn dan kemudiannya ditukar nama di kepada Stalingrad pada 1925 dan akhirnya pada 1961 nama bandar ini ditukar lagi kepada Volgograd dan kekal sehingga sekarang.

tugu “Mother Russia” di atas bukit Mamayev,pinggir bandar Volgograd

muzium “Panorama” di tebing Sungai Volga.

KOMUNITI MUSLIM DI VOLGOGRAD

Muslim asal Volgograd kebanyakannya adalah berketurunan etnik Tatar,Tajik,Chechen dan etnik-etnik lain. Majoriti mereka adalah Ahli Sunnah wal Jamaah dan mengikuti mazhab Hanafi.

Walaupun mengalami tekanan yang hebat pada zaman pemerintahan kerajaan sosialis yang atheis, kebanyakan Muslim tetap dengan agama Islam dan mempelajarinya secara sembunyi.

Sekarang Islam adalah antara agama yang paling pesat berkembang di Volgograd,baik dari jumlah penganut baru ataupun warga muda berketurunan Islam asal yang berjinak-jinak kembali kepada Islam selepas dibasuh dengan atheism.Hasilnya, masjid yang digunakan sekarang(3 tingkat) amat sesak setiap kali solat Jumaat dan solat Hari Raya.

Oleh kerana itu,cadangan Mufti Volgograd sekarang,Hadrat Ilyas untuk membina masjid baru di Kirovsky District adalah relevan untuk menampung perkembangan umat Islam di sini dan juga kehadiran Muslim dari negara lain yang bekerja dan belajar di Volgograd.

Laman ini adalah hasil cetusan idea pelajar-pelajar Muslim Malaysia di Volgograd yang ingin memperkenalkan komuniti Islam di sini dan melancarkan lagi kutipan derma pembinaan masjid khasnya.

Semoga usaha ini diberkati Allah.

Wallahualam.