Islamic culture center to open in Budapest

  Tuesday, 30 August 2016

source: abna

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Workers have been busy for months at an address on Gutenberg tér in Budapest’s District 8 to complete what will reportedly be an Islamic culture center, according to a report on Atv.
The Józsefváros Local Council said that the property in the apartment house at Gutenberg tér 1 was bought at auction in 2014 by a private individual for HUF 30 million, and that to their knowledge the Charity Peace Foundation – a religious and educational foundation representing adherents of the Muslim faith in Hungary – plans to open a cultural center in the building.
Local residents in the neighborhood and workers said that they believe the building will house a Muslim prayer house, but the council denied any knowledge of this.
Atv noted that the building is located opposite the Budapest University of Jewish Studies, a rabbinical seminary.
The president of the board of trustees at the Charity Peace Foundation, who was not named in the report, said that the property will not contain a typical prayer house, but a cultural center with a gallery.
The source added that the site will host various exhibitions, conferences, meetings and clubs for both men and women.