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First of its kind in UK … cemetery which direction is towards Makkah
By: Nabil Raza
LONDON, Britain: A new cemetery is to have all its graves
aligned with the holy city of Makkah, making it the first
council graveyard in the United Kingdom to bury the dead in
Islamic tradition, regardless of their religion.
Headstones in the new £2.5million High Wood Cemetery in
Nottingham will face north-east as Muslims believe the dead
look over their shoulder towards Makkah. This is the way in
which all followers of Islam in the UK are buried.
The move has upset the Church and led to complaints that the
policy discriminates against the city's majority Christian
population. The traditional direction of burial for Christians
is facing east.
In Nottingham, Muslims make up less than five per cent of the
region's 500,000 population.
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