
QATAR is building 82 mosques at a cost of QR373 million ($102.4 million), under the Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Ministry’s 2010-2011 budget for the construction and renovation of mosques in the country.
Mosques Affairs Department assistant director of technical affairs Safran Abdullah Al Safran told the Gulf Times newspaper that 60 new mosques were being built at a cost of QR210 million ($56.6 million), of which 22 have now been completed with the rest expected to be ready by end of the year.
Al Safran also said that another project to build 22 mosques at a cost of QR163 million ($44.7 million) was under way following the signing of a deal with the Public Works Authority (Ashghal).