About 300 Muslims have prayed in the streets of Kosovo’s capital during a protest demanding space for a new mosque.
When police tried to prevent the demonstrators from blocking a main road in Pristina during Friday prayers, they scuffled with one ethnic Albanian Muslim man and took him into custody for questioning.
Police spokesman Baki Kelani says the man was “preventing police from doing their job.”
Muslims in Pristina complain they don’t have enough space to accommodate a growing number of faithful and demand that authorities provide space for a new mosque.
No decision has been made by the local authorities.
In Kosovo, most of the mosques date from the Ottoman era. Kosovo is secular, but a majority of its people are ethnic Albanians who are mostly Muslim.
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