Now, Muslims in the Republic of Montenegro have the first Muslim school to accommodate students aspiring for Islamic education.  “After more than a 90-year, the school construction has done and will enroll students for the 2008/2009 school year.  The four-storey school, which will have a 16-room dorm, will open its doors on August 20 in the capital Podgorica. It will have facilities such as a library, a computer lab, a gym and a theatre,” Omer Halil Kajshaj, head of the foreign relations department at the Islamic Sheikdom of Montenegro. He also said this year only male student will accept, and open for girls next year.

The building of the 300 square meter school has cost €2 million, some  €1.5 million of which donated by a Turkish governmental instituion. The Jeddah – based Islamic Development Bank and a number of charities in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates donated the remaining € 500,000. The school comes to meet the needs of the Muslim minority in Montenegrom since it closed in the northen municipality of Pljevlja in 1918.

source: islamonline.net – Photo: google