Kabalagala mosque project gets sh100m

By Jude Etyang and Mariam Nakisekka A SENIOR member of the 3Z foundation, a Kenyan Islamic charity organisation, Zool Nimji recently donated shs100m as part of the launch of a multi-million mosque construction project at Kabalagala, a Kampala city suburb. At a religious ceremony held on Friday after the Juma prayers and attended by prince Kassim Nakibinge and the Egyptian ambassador, Maasoum M. Marzouk, among other prominent muslims at the site of mosque which lies near Kabalagala police post, Nimji handed over a sh50m cheque to Nakibinge. The entire project is estimated to cost sh200m and the complex will be a double-storeyed building with two prayer halls, two classrooms, and a balcony. Nimji said the project symbolised the realisation of a dream by the people of Kabalagala to have a mosque in their neighbourhood. He said the mosque would make a strong statement of the presence of Islam in Kabalagala and also noted that it was close to the new American embassy at Nsambya (two kilometres away). Nimji said the first phase of the project would be completed in four to six months and that as the work progresses he will donate a further sh50m. Nakibinge appreciated Nimji’s contribution and asked the Muslim community to support the project financially. ends