AP reports from Athens that it took years and overcoming fierce objections from nationalists and the Greek Church, but Greece’s first official mosque – paid for by the state – could start operation as soon as May.
Sources who weren’t named told Kathimerini newspaper that the mosque’s governing committee will meet soon to begin seeking bids for security, cleaning services and supplies while it’s also going to rent office space for workers and the panel members.
The bidding process is expected to take at least three months and the report said that the committee will hire three civil servants for accounting, secretarial and technical duties to help run the facility that is in the Votanikos district of the capital and can accommodate 300 people.
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