AUGUSTA (AP) — The Augusta Planning Board has unanimously approved construction of the city’s first mosque.
The Islamic Society of Greater Augusta, a nonprofit group founded in 2009, won approval from the board on Tuesday to build a 1,230 square-foot mosque, with seating for 70 people and parking for 21 cars, on a dead-end street on the city’s east side.
No one spoke against the measure, which won support from the city’s Roman Catholic, Unitarian and Jewish clerics.
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