46 Mosques Built in Bashkiria

The head of the Council on state-confessional relations of the Bashkortostan Republic, Vyacheslav Pyatkov announced the details of the total number of religious buildings in the republic.

According to him, in 2013, 46 mosques and 3 Orthodox churches were built.
V. Pyatkov stressed that the selection and allocation of land, was considered based on social opinion, the real figures of attendance and staff.
According to a 2012 official survey 30% of the 4 million population of Bashkortostan is Muslim.
Source: Islam.ru