Islamic prayer house to be erected in Vorarlberg

Austrian Times
March 6, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1440/islamic-prayer-house-to-be-erected-in-vorarlberg

Excerpt:

There will be an Islamic prayer house in Nenzing, Vorarlberg with an area of 650 square metres but without a dome or a minaret.

The "Vorarlberger Nachrichten" newspaper reported the news today (Fri), adding Nenzing municipality had agreed to sell a 1,500-square-metre plot of land to the Turkish-Islamic Cultural Association (ATIB) as the site of the prayer house.

The news comes after criticism of Vorarlberg by the US State Department in its annual human-rights report.

The report criticised the province for changes in the law to make the building of minarets more difficult, a violation of "freedom of religious expression."

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