Georgia Mosque to be built by local Shiite group

LILBURN, Ga.(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Lilburn officials in Tuesday night, after nearly two years of resistance, approved a local Muslim's request to expand its worship center.

 Lilburn's city council voted 3-1 in favor of allowing the 20,000-square-foot Muslim worship center to be built by Dar-e-Abbas, a local Shiite group.

The Dar-E-Abbas congregation, which owns and worships on 1.4 acres, originally sought to buy and rezone an additional 6.5 acres for an expanded mosque, gymnasium and cemetery to accommodate the area's growing Muslim population.



An architect's rendering of the proposed new Dar-e Abbas mosque.

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