Mosque Rebuild Stalled for Four Months in Muharraq

TDT | Manama

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A Muharraq Municipal Council member has called for urgent action to finish rebuilding Esmat Zain Al Abideen Mosque (formerly known as Al Tawba Mosque) after work stopped around four months ago, leaving bricks, equipment and other building materials in the street and adding to the load on nearby mosques.

Abdulqader Mahmood, who represents the third constituency, raised the matter during the council’s session and said the scheme had been left hanging for too long while residents were still dealing with the mess around the site.

‘Work has been stopped for nearly four months,’ Mahmood told the council. ‘The bricks are lying there, the materials are lying there in a chaotic way, and this is putting pressure on the mosques around it for reasons we do not know.’

He said the rebuild began about three years ago, when the mosque was demolished as part of the project, but later ran into trouble with the first contractor before being handed to another.

Mahmood said the delay had dragged on so long that even a return to work would not bring a quick end to the scheme.

‘Finishing the work will need more than a year,’ he said, urging members to refer the request to the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs to look into the matter.