{"id":43928,"date":"2015-06-06T20:05:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=43928"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T11:07:55","slug":"in-a-precedent-setting-eventmosque-named-virgin-mary-opened-in-tartous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=43928","title":{"rendered":"In a precedent-setting event\u2026Mosque named &#8220;Virgin Mary&#8221; opened in Tartous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tartous, SANA-A mosque bearing the name of &#8220;Virgin Mary&#8221; was inaugurated in the coastal city of Tartous, setting a precedent in the Arab and Muslim worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Awqaf (Religious Endowments) Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed said it is the first time in the Arab and Muslim world that a mosque is named after Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, which he said embodies the true message of building mosques that calls for amity and fraternity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/\u0627\u0644\u0633\u064a\u062f1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-43934 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/\u0627\u0644\u0633\u064a\u062f1-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\u0627\u0644\u0633\u064a\u062f\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Damascus, particularly its Grand Umayyad Mosque, is the place where the Islamic culture originated,&#8221; added the minister, deploring the current situation that saw ultra-extremists demolish places of worship in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Representative of the Maronite Patriarchate in Tartous and Lattakia Antoine Deeb said the event is a propitious gesture that shows that Islam and Christianity share one sublime message of love and peace.<\/p>\n<p>The Virgin Mary is held in high regard in Islam which bestowed on her several names including The Virgin Mary, Mary, the Pure, Mariam. She has a prominent, significant, and revered role in the Quran and Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has always prided itself on its religious diversity and the fraternal ties binding Muslims and Christians who have lived there side by side throughout history.<\/p>\n<p>Manal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tartous, SANA-A mosque bearing the name of &#8220;Virgin Mary&#8221; was inaugurated in the coastal city of Tartous, setting a precedent in the Arab and Muslim worlds. Minister of Awqaf (Religious Endowments) Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed said it is the first time in the Arab and Muslim world that a mosque is named after Virgin Mary, Mother &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,116],"tags":[964,5828,5827],"class_list":["post-43928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-local","category-news-locals","tag-mosque","tag-precedent-setting-event","tag-virgin-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}