Sunday Times 2

The new extension to Colombo’s Jawatte mosque which is more than sevendecades old was declared open on Thursday by mosque senior Hussain Cassim and Senior Minister A.H.M. Fowzie during a ceremony attended by the congregation. The facelift for the mosque carried out with donations from well-wishers and the mosque jamath.

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