Problematising the Official Athens Mosque: Between Mere Place of Worship and 21st Century ‘Trojan Horse’

This article investigates the ‘problematisation’ of the recently inaugurated mosque in the city of Athens, the capital’s first ‘official’ mosque since the country was liberated from the Ottoman Empire almost two centuries ago. Building on and developing the existing scholarly literature on the probl...

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Published in:Religions
Authors: Verousi, Christina (Author) ; Allen, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Further subjects:B Greece
B Islam in Greece
B Greek Muslims
B Islamophobia
B Athens
B mosque problematisation
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