Engineer Hazem Al-Ashmouni confirmed, Eastern Governor, The replacement, renovation, restoration and development work that the Endowment Mosques are witnessing throughout the governorate is an honorable model of the state’s efforts to build the houses of God in meaning and structure, within the framework of a conscious, civilized vision that reflects the interest of the political leadership in the mosque and its religious and national role in building the human being and consolidating moral and human values.
The governor said that the development work that began with the Al-Fatah Mosque in the city of Zagazig, and has currently culminated in the restoration and renovation of the Grand Mosque in front of the Nine Arches – one of the city’s most ancient mosques, which was built in 1832 AD, confirms that the Egyptian state, under the auspices of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, places the architecture of mosques in order to revive the religious message, preserve identity, and glorify God’s rituals, and not just a structural development, stressing the governorate’s full support for all the efforts of the Ministry of Endowments in this regard. The matter.
For his part, Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Hamid, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Endowments in Sharqiya, confirmed that the directorate continues its efforts in developing and maintaining mosques at the level of the governorate’s centers and cities, in implementation of the directives of Dr. Osama Al-Azhari, Minister of Endowments, as part of the ministry’s strategy that aims to combine building architecture and meaning architecture.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Endowments in Sharqiya explained that the comprehensive restoration and renovation work taking place in the Grand Mosque in front of the Nine Arches and other mosques in the governorate reflects the state’s interest in the mosque as a beacon of knowledge and worship and an essential pillar in building rational awareness, spreading enlightened moderate thought, and enhancing the educational and societal role of the mosque in a way that optimally achieves its sublime mission.
