Western Europe’s Largest Muslim cemetery Inaugurated in The Netherlands
The cemetery, called Maqbara Rawdah Al Moslimin (Cemetery Garden of Muslims), has space for 16,000 coffins. Therefore, it is the largest Islamic cemetery in Western Europe.
According to Säid Bouharrou, one of the initiators behind the cemetery, Maqbara meets the needs of Muslims in the country. As many public cemeteries have a policy that graves are cleared after several decades, Muslims often choose to be buried in their country of origin. But younger generations have been born in the Netherlands and are now sometimes buried in a country they do not belong to.
This was also a problem during the Covid crisis, as travel restrictions were implemented. As a result, many Muslims were temporarily buried at a public cemetery until they could be transported to other countries. “Double mourning and an unfinished processing process”, Bouharrou says.
Source: cne.news
