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What are the residential areas for muslims in cuba?And how should a muslim woman live there?? |
Travel Info What are the residential areas for muslims in cuba?And how should a muslim woman live there?? Travel Tips G'day Marky, Thanks for your question. Cuba is officially secular after the Cuban revolution. Various faiths are practised there although not Islam to any significant extent. Havana has an informal mosque catering to indigenous Muslims and diplomats although it is only open for Friday prayers. Cuba has a multitude of faiths reflecting the island鈥檚 diverse cultural elements. Catholicism, which was brought to the island by Spanish colonialists at the beginning of the 16th century, is the most prevalent professed faith. After the revolution, Cuba became an officially atheistic state and restricted religious practice. Since 1991, restrictions have been eased and direct challenges by state institutions to the right to religion have all but disappeared. Though the church still faces restrictions of written and electronic communication, and can only accept donations from state-approved funding sources. The Roman Catholic Church is made up of the Cuban Catholic Bishops' Conference (COCC), led by Jaime Cardinal Ortega, Archbishop of Havana. It has eleven dioceses, 56 orders of nuns and 24 orders of priests. In January 1998, Pope John Paul II paid a historic visit to the island, invited by the Cuban government and Catholic Church. The religious landscape of Cuba is also strongly marked by syncretisms of various kinds. This diversity derives from West and Central Africans who were transported to Cuba, and in effect reinvented their African religions. They did so by combining them with elements of the Catholic belief system. Catholicism is often practised in tandem with Santer铆a, a mixture of Catholicism and other, mainly African, faiths that include a number of cult religions. Cuba鈥檚 patron saint, La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre (the Virgin of Cobre) is a syncretism with the Santer铆a goddess Och煤n. The important religious festival "La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre" is celebrated by Cubans annually on 8 September. Other religions practised are Palo Monte, and Abaku谩, which have large parts of their liturgy in African languages. Protestantism, introduced from the United States in the 18th century, has seen a steady increase in popularity. 300,000 Cubans belong to the island鈥檚 54 Protestant denominations. Pentecostalism has grown rapidly in recent years, and the Assemblies of God alone claims a membership of over 100,000 people. The Episcopal Church of Cuba claims 10,000 adherants. Cuba has small communities of Jews, Muslims and members of the Bah谩'铆 faith. Havana has three active synagogues and one informal mosque. Most Jewish Cubans are descendants of Polish and Russian Jews who fled pogroms at the beginning of the 20th Century. There is, however, a sizeable number of Sephardic Jews in Cuba, who trace their origin to Turkey (primarily Istanbul and Tarakya). Most of these Sephardic Jews live in the provinces, although they do maintain a synagogue in Havana. In the 1960s almost 8,000 Jews left for Miami. In the 1990s approximately 400 Jewish Cubans relocated to Israel in a co-ordinated exodus using visas provided by nations sympathetic to their desire to move to Israel. The latest statistics for Islam in Cuba claim a population of 907 Muslims representing 0.008 percent of the population. Outside sources claim this number may be artificially low given the Cuban governments Socialist-Communist attitudes towards religion. In 2001 Sheikh Muhammad bin Nassir Al-Aboudy, the Assistant Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL) travelled to Cuba to obtain permission from the Cuban authorities to establish an Islamic organization that would support Cuba鈥檚 Muslim community. Among the other aims of the proposed organization would be constructing mosques and the dissemination of Islamic culture among the Muslims. Cuba鈥檚 Muslims usually pray in their homes since there is no mosque in Havana and the state does not allow the construction of mosques. The only prayers performed in public are the Friday Prayers that are conducted in a place known as Casa de los 脕rabes ("The Arab House") in old Havana. The Arab House belonged to a wealthy Arab immigrant who lived in Cuba during the 1940s, and it was built on Andalusian architectural designs. The House encompasses an Arabic museum, an Arabic restaurant, and the place is used by Muslim diplomats for Friday Prayers. Qatar donated US$ 40,000 for the remodeling of the House, but it is only opened for Friday Prayers. The MWL official estimated that in the town of Pilaya de Rosario, 40 percent of the population is Muslim. Among the international Islamic organizations doing charitable work among Cuba鈥檚 Muslims is the Qatari Charitable Society. I have attached sources for your reference. Regards Source(s): Wikipedia Cuba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cuba#cultur... Wikipedia Religion in Cuba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/religion_in... Wikipedia Islam in Cuba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/islam_in_cu... Islam in Cuba http://www.islamawareness.net/latinameri... Other Travel Tips its at the amerian base,and no its not for weman |
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