DUSHANBE, December 28, 2015, Asia-Plus – Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has got acquainted with the progress of construction of Dushanbe’s central mosque, which will be the largest mosque in Central Asia.

According to the Tajik president’s official website, local companies STS-Inshoot and Somon Tajhizot are building the mosque and 50 percent of the project has already been completed.

The mosque is expected to be finished in 2018.      

We will recall that President Emomali Rahmon began construction of Central Asia’s largest mosque not far from downtown Dushanbe in October 2011, a month after officially raising the country’s flag on the world’s tallest unsupported flagpole in Dushanbe.

The cost of the project is 100 million U.S. dollars and the Kingdom of Qatar is putting up 70 percent of the cost of the project, with Tajikistan raising the rest.