Arabian Cultural Center

In the port city of Odessa, on the corner of Richelieu and Big Arnaut, attracts the attention of a beautiful openwork white building in the Moorish style. At the sight of this beauty you will want to go there.

Arabic Cultural Center was built in modern times at the expense of a patron - a businessman of Syrian origin Adnan Kivan to promote the culture of the East. He opened in 2001. The building project was developed by experts of the Odessa architectural restoration bureau. According nods he made to Odessa gift.

And this is true, because the tradition of Muslims born in Odessa in the distant past: on the site of the present city were Tatar settlement Hadzhibey and Turkish fortress. However, during the Soviet era mosque in the city is left, Muslims prayed in secret, and only in 1992 was officially registered community.

The new mosque has become a paste same attraction of Odessa. Sermons are read in Arabic. At the entrance to the prayer hall men should remove their shoes, and women - wear clothes to toe and cover your head - you can take in the long robe with a hood.

In the cultural center of the Muslims not only guided tours, but also work for free Arabic language courses, library.

Mosque and center in Odessa is open to all who believe in spirituality, regardless of faith, every day except pilgrimage (usually Friday), from 11:00 to 17:00.