located in the centre of Kazakhstan's capital is the former largest in Central Asia. However, it lost its title in 2019 when Tajikistan completed the Dushanbe Grand Mosque, prompting Kazakhstan to ...

Officials in Tajikistan have been promising to build Central Asia’s biggest mosque for ... development that will include luxury-housing towers, Dushanbe’s chattering classes suspect the grand mosque ...

Dushanbe, work has begun on a gigantic new mosque. One square block of stone has been laid by President Emomali Rakhmon to signal the start of construction. When completed in five years, Central ...

Tajikistan’s government financed the rest. Here is a tweet with photos of the new mosque. Dushanbe’s new central mosque is the second largest in Central Asia, behind the Central Mosque of Astana in ...

Central Asia is a region rich in history ... Key sites include Ark Fortress, Bolo Haouz Mosque, reflecting its historical ...

But many Tajiks doubt the attack in Dushanbe's central mosque shortly after the afternoon prayers was a random act of hooliganism. Critics suspect the assault is linked to the Ulema Council's role ...

Hamdullo Rahimzoda, imam of Dushanbe's Central Mosque, believes there is no need for such a list. "The topics we choose for sermons have always been about moral values anyway, because Islam is all ...

Rustam Emomali is also the chair of Tajikistan’s National Assembly and the son of the country’s president. His recent trip to ...

DUSHANBE, September 11. /TASS/. Chief Mufti of Tajikistan Saidmukarram Abdulkodirzoda sustained a stab wound in an assassination attempt near the Dushanbe Central Mosque and the assailant was ...

Here, scores of men who could not fit inside Dushanbe's main Haji Yacoub ... in the courtyard. The mosque rolls out "collective" prayer mats to accommodate them. David Trilling is EurasiaNet's Central ...