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Muslims To Have Their Own Cemetery In Quebec City

IANS, 04 Aug, 2017 01:57 PM
  • Muslims To Have Their Own Cemetery In Quebec City
QUEBEC — Muslims in Quebec City are going to have their own cemetery after all.
 
Mayor Regis Labeaume and representatives of the city's Muslim community made the announcement at a news conference today.
 
The cemetery is expected to be ready this fall and will be located on a parcel of land of about 6,000 square metres the city is selling to the Muslim community for about $270,000.
 
The news comes just three weeks after a proposal aimed at setting up a Muslim cemetery in a town southwest of Quebec City was defeated in a referendum by a 19-16 margin.
 
Quebec City's Muslims have been looking for a cemetery for two decades, but made a renewed push after they completed the payment for the city's main mosque in 2011.
 
It was there last January that a gunman shot dead six men in the main prayer hall and injured 19 others. The bodies were sent overseas and to Montreal for burial.

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