Chechnya Building Mosque by Jerusalem for 'Brethren' Lost 500 Years Ago

The country is putting millions of dollars into building a huge mosque in Abu Ghosh, whose residents trace their ancestry to the Caucasus region.

Nir Hasson
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The government of Chechnya is constructing one of the largest and most magnificent mosques in Israel in the village of Abu Ghosh, near Jerusalem, in a project that both the villagers and the Chechen president view as renewing ties severed 500 years ago.

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