Russia wants to ban prayer rooms in residential and commercial centers

The Human Rights Council under the President of Russia is considering the issue of closing and banning prayer rooms in commercial and residential buildings. The reason for this is that these places of prayer cause inconvenience to the population.

The Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of Russia is considering the issue of banning the placement of prayer rooms in commercial and residential buildings. We are talking about hundreds of mosques in the form of public organizations in high-rise buildings, shopping centers and other commercial facilities.

According to "Parliamentskaya Gazeta" edition, the rooms where the lessons are read are causing inconvenience to the residents.

"A Muslim prayer room was established on an area of 142.8 square meters in a commercial facility in a residential building in the Moscow region. This was done, among other things, without agreements with the residents of the house," said council member Kirill Kabanov, to whom the residents of the house appealed. He added that such cases are "turning into a systemic problem": the authorities of a number of regions are simply ignoring the migrants, citing that there is no other place to pray. Officials, according to him, "are ignoring the consequences and problems caused by the residents of such houses and districts, as well as the conditions for the emergence of conflicts."

Amendments may supplement the Housing Code and the Law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations.

Earlier, a prayer hall with separate rooms for women and men , as well as two toilets, appeared in the Kazan Central Department Store .