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Aurora Bulkualis wrote:It's been reported for years. It's being funded by foundations close to Erdogan (Diyanet). Erdogan came last year to "inaugurate" it.

Thanks, Owner - Diyanet is their ministry of religious affairs.

But do you know what happened with the design? - I've read a bit up on it, and the plans for what it is supposed to look like has changed from the last time I heard about the project. Back then it was planned to look like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Qy0q51WzM

Probably the same as usual, when we see plans of our coming stadiums, lol.

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Look at minute 1:08.

Migjeni wrote:

Aurora Bulkualis wrote:It's been reported for years. It's being funded by foundations close to Erdogan (Diyanet). Erdogan came last year to "inaugurate" it.

Thanks, Owner - Diyanet is their ministry of religious affairs.

But do you know what happened with the design? - I've read a bit up on it, and the plans for what it is supposed to look like has changed from the last time I heard about the project. Back then it was planned to look like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Qy0q51WzM

Probably the same as usual, when we see plans of our coming stadiums, lol.

No idea. I WISH it looked like that. That video seems old (even though it was put up on yt in 2015).

They probably a plan to build it themselves, then Erdogan came along and changed it.

Aurora Bulkualis wrote:

Plako wrote:

Migjeni wrote:I thought the mosque in Tirana was a modern one? - I believe it was the BIG studio who won with their design? Read it in the Danish media as it's a Dane who's the founder of that studio and their head architect - considered like an architect rock star by many.

Nobody cares about the architecture, the more concerning part is that it's built with Turkish money. I do see the need for a mosque but for non practicing Albanians this is abut too much.


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In a country that was under Ottoman rule for 600 years, you build the biggest religious building in the capital, in neo-Ottoman architecture.

What signal is that sending?

That we are a majority moslem country?


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Migjeni wrote:

Aurora Bulkualis wrote:It's been reported for years. It's being funded by foundations close to Erdogan (Diyanet). Erdogan came last year to "inaugurate" it.

Thanks, Owner - Diyanet is their ministry of religious affairs.

But do you know what happened with the design? - I've read a bit up on it, and the plans for what it is supposed to look like has changed from the last time I heard about the project. Back then it was planned to look like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Qy0q51WzM

Probably the same as usual, when we see plans of our coming stadiums, lol.

I drove by a month ago and it doesn't look anything remotely like those Danish plans.


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Plako wrote: That we are a majority moslem country?


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There is a difference between Islam and Neo-Ottomanism. If you can't see it, then me convincing you is pointless.

I'm quite surprised with how religious muslims in Albania are.

And tbh, I'm against building a big mosque with an ottoman architecture in Tirana or Prishtina.

vata10 wrote:I'm quite surprised with how religious muslims in Albania are.

? The majority don't practice it regularly nor have they have picked up a religious text.

But there is a small sect that is getting more and more radicalized.

Aurora Bulkualis wrote:

Plako wrote: That we are a majority moslem country?


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There is a difference between Islam and Neo-Ottomanism. If you can't see it, then me convincing you is pointless.

What is the alternative to Neo-Ottomanism? Salafist Mosque?


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