The worship area reserved for students, patients and teachers of the Islamic faith on the Catanzaro university campus remains. This was specified by the rector Giovanni Cuda, after the controversy following the opening of the spaces reserved for prayer for the Muslim community and, above all, after this morning the League had announced on social media the closure of the “mosque” following the question from the Honorable Rossano Sasso.
«I didn’t know – explained the rector during a meeting with journalists – that in Islamic culture every place of prayer is defined as a “mosque”. Therefore, the signs were removed (on which ‘mosque’ was written, ed.) to avoid exploitation, but this was done independently of the question.” Yesterday the Minister of University and Research Anna Maria Bernini responded, during question time, to the League’s question, explaining the reasons of the Catanzaro university. The rector, who thanked Bernini, specified that the worship space is located in a room that cannot be used for educational purposes and close to the “Moscati” chapel intended for the worship of the Catholic faith.
According to what the university had announced in recent weeks, a dedicated space has been created inside the Biosciences Building, on the basis of the agreement stipulated between the University and the Muslim Association of Catanzaro «Dar Assalam Odv», a voluntary association registered in the Runts (National Third Sector Register), «which has the aim of providing spiritual assistance to the faithful of Islamic religion in various areas, including the hospital one, through the Imams and the religious guides who provide it part.” The rector Cuda, and the president of the «Dar Assalam Odv» association, Antonio Carioti, have stipulated an agreement that will allow the Imam to celebrate the two collective prayers on the occasion of the Islamic holidays (the end of Ramadan feast and the feast of the Sacrifice), the Friday sermon (collective prayer of the Jumùa), and the five daily prayers.