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'ISTANBUL' MOSQUE PLANNED IN CUBA
Saudi Gazette, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Feb 13 2015
ISTANBUL -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unveiled his
ambitious plan to build a major Ottoman-style mosque in Cuba, saying
it should be similar to a nineteenth century one on the Bosphorus
in Istanbul, the presidency said Thursday. Erdogan acknowledged
after holding talks with Cuban President Raul Castro in Havana that
Cuban officials had appeared to have already made an agreement for
the construction of a mosque in Havana. But Erdogan, who caused
astonishment last year by claiming Muslims discovered the Americas
before Columbus, said Turkey was pressing for an Ottoman-style mosque
in another city in Cuba. "We have told them that we could build a
similar one to Ortakoy Mosque in another city, if you have promised to
others for Havana," Erdogan said in the communist island, the second
stop of his Latin America tour. The Ortakoy Mosque, designed by the
Balyan family of Armenian architects, was built in 1853 during the
rule of the Ottoman sultan Abdulmecid I. The neo-Baroque edifice is
a familiar sight on the shore near the Bosphorus Bridge.
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20150213233 634
From: A. Papazian
Saudi Gazette, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Feb 13 2015
ISTANBUL -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unveiled his
ambitious plan to build a major Ottoman-style mosque in Cuba, saying
it should be similar to a nineteenth century one on the Bosphorus
in Istanbul, the presidency said Thursday. Erdogan acknowledged
after holding talks with Cuban President Raul Castro in Havana that
Cuban officials had appeared to have already made an agreement for
the construction of a mosque in Havana. But Erdogan, who caused
astonishment last year by claiming Muslims discovered the Americas
before Columbus, said Turkey was pressing for an Ottoman-style mosque
in another city in Cuba. "We have told them that we could build a
similar one to Ortakoy Mosque in another city, if you have promised to
others for Havana," Erdogan said in the communist island, the second
stop of his Latin America tour. The Ortakoy Mosque, designed by the
Balyan family of Armenian architects, was built in 1853 during the
rule of the Ottoman sultan Abdulmecid I. The neo-Baroque edifice is
a familiar sight on the shore near the Bosphorus Bridge.
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20150213233 634
From: A. Papazian