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The local government allocated a million-dollar budget and 2,400-square-meter plot for Manila’s first Muslim cemetery
The Philippine government on Wednesday started construction on the capital city’s first cemetery and culture hall specially-designed for Muslim residents.
The groundbreaking ceremony for Manila's first Muslim cemetery was held with the attendance of Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso.
Underlining the significance of the nearly million-dollar project (about P50 million), Domagoso said that the cemetery would put an end to Muslims’ predicament of not having a place “to rest their departed in accordance with their beliefs and tradition,” reported the Manila Times.
“In recognition of the beliefs and tradition of our Muslim brothers and sisters, we are going to build the Manila Muslim Cemetery so that they will not travel far to bury their departed loved ones,” he told reporters.
The local government has allotted a 2,400-square-meter plot for the cemetery.
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