Cambodia's largest mosque opens in Phnom Penh

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Sunday 29 Mar 2015 - 14:14 Makkah mean time-9-6-1436 Cambodia's largest mosque opens in Phnom Penh Phnom Penh, Cambodia (IINA) - Cambodia’s largest and only Ottoman-style mosque was officially opened by Prime Minister Hun Sen in a ceremony attended by more than 1,000 people in the capital on Friday, Worldbulletin reported. Al-Serkal Grand Mosque in Phnom Penh's Boeng Kak neighbourhood was funded by Eisa Bin Nasser Bin Abdellatif Alserkal, an Emirati businessman, and replaces a mosque that once sat on the same site before it was torn down in 2012. “For the whole country, when they travel to Phnom Penh and from overseas, they come to this mosque to pray, and for tourists who come to Cambodia, they would like to come and pray,” he said. The gleaming $2 million structure was a big draw Friday as hundreds of people milled around outside. The separate men’s and women’s prayer halls were packed. SM/IINA