New places of worship planned in Reykjavík

[Lundi]

New places of worship planned to be erected in Reykjavík

Over the next few years, three new houses of prayer will be built in Reykjavík, reports Fréttablaðið. The Russian Orthodox Church, the Association for Medieval Norse Paganism (Ásatrú), and the Association for Icelandic Muslims have all received promises for lots in Reykjavík. The applications are currently under review at the Environmental Committee.

The Association of Icelandic Muslims needs a 4 - 5,000 square meter lot for a mosque that is planned to be just over 2,000 square meters. Currently, a lot in the Ellidaá River Valley is under review.

The Russian Orthodox Church will be 600 square meters and also include recreational facilities for the congregation and a school. Two to three lots are under consideration for the church, in Öskjuhlíð or on the Landakotstún across from the Russian embassy (and next to the Catholic Church) or at Hávallagata 14 where there are buildings belonging to the Catholic Church. According to Father Timofej, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church in Iceland, all potential places are good but the Landakotstún is the best because it is close to the Russian embassy. He said that the church will be built in the traditional style with bulb-shaped spires. Construction of the church will begin this summer or as soon as city officials give the church "a green light".

The Association for Medieval Norse Paganism (ásatrú) is set to receive a 1,500 - 2,000 square meter lot for a 700 sq. m. temple. The temple will include additional facilities for the congregation, a forested area close to landmark Perlan is the lot currently under discussion for the Pagans.

Ný bænahús rísa í borginni

Þrjú bænahús verða væntanlega reist í Reykjavík á næstu árum. Það er Rússneska rétttrúnaðarkirkjan, Félag ásatrúarmanna og Félag múhameðs*trúarmanna sem hafa fengið vilyrði um lóðir í Reykjavík og er málið þessa dagana til umfjöllunar hjá umhverfisráði.

Félag íslenskra múslima þarf 4.000-5.000 fermetra lóð undir mosku og er stefnt að því að byggingin verði rúmlega 2.000 fermetrar að stærð. Verið er að gera úttekt á lóðinni við hliðina á Staldrinu norðan við Garðheima í krikanum hjá Stekkjarbakka og Reykjanesbraut. Lóðin tilheyrir Elliðaárdalnum og þarf því að gera breytingu á aðalskipulagi dalsins ef þetta á að ná fram að ganga.

Helga Bragadóttir, skipulagsfulltrúi í Reykjavík, segir að lagt verði til við skipulagsráð að svæðið verði tekið til deiliskipulags sem allra fyrst ef ákveðið verður að úthluta múhameðstrúarmönnum þessari lóð. Á þetta svæði geti komið til viðbótar önnur starfsemi, til dæmis sem tengist dalnum.

Tveir til þrír staðir koma til greina fyrir kirkju og félagsheimili Rússnesku rétttrúnaðarkirkjunnar, annað hvort norðan við fyrirhugaðan duftgarð við Leynimýri í Öskjuhlíð, á Landakotstúni við bílastæðið gegnt rússneska sendiráðinu eða við Hávallagötu 14 þar sem nú eru byggingar kaþólsku kirkjunnar.

Faðir Timofej, yfirmaður Rússnesku rétttrúnaðarkirkjunnar á Íslandi, segir að kirkjan verði byggð í hefðbundnum stíl með kúplum í anda kirkjunnar og að hönnun og framkvæmdir hefjist vonandi strax í sumar eða um leið og borgaryfirvöld gefa grænt ljós. Hann segir að byggingin verði 600 fermetrar að stærð, kirkja, safnaðarheimili og skóli.

Faðir Timofej segir að allir staðirnir séu góðir en kannski sé Landakotstúnið besti staðurinn því að þaðan sé stutt í rússneska sendiráðið auk þess sem kirkjan sé í góðu sambandi við bræður sína í kaþólsku kirkjunni.

Þá er til umræðu að úthluta ásatrúarmönnum 1.500-2.000 fermetra lóð undir byggingu um 700 fermetra hofs, félagsheimilis og dómhrings í skógarjaðri í Leynimýrinni. Ásatrúarmenn myndu þar hafa sameiginlega aðkomu með Perlunni.

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[Lundi]

I do believe it is long over due that the Ásatrúar association gets a temple, and the place the temple is supposed to be built is one of the most beautiful areas in the city, heavily forested and stands at a hill looking over the city. It will bring nothing but more beauty to the city and add an extra feeling of tranquilly to the area where many birds call their home.

As for the Orthodox Church, well I see no reason why they need a church here in Iceland, but than again I never saw a reason for the Catholic Church either. Since the Orthodox church will be built right next door to the Catholic one I’m hoping their followers get aggressive one Sunday sermon and tear each others churches down

As for these crazy Icelanders who have taken up to follow the lunatic Muhammad and now want a mosque to follow their utterly foreign religion in hope of attracting their Arabian idols to Iceland…..well I do have my doubts if the mosque will ever be built but if the project ever gets started I will most certainly protest heavily and I know for a fact most of my friends and family will too. It’s outrageous enough just to discuss about giving them land :

[Sigrid]

Lundi - I have a family branch in Iceland. There is a sect of the Bahai religion there (a sect of Islam). One of my relatives was ensnared and has married one of their group. We have lost a member and gained a mixed race aspect. We are very unhappy, not because we are racist but because we are never going to see that branch of the family tree produce any more true Icelanders. The centre is, I think, in the Faroe Islands and there are tentacles at the University in Iceland where I think my relative met this alien universalist creed. I have heard that 400 converts fall to this religion every day worldwide. That is scary. Many are not Iranian. So when you get angry or upset about the mosque for "Icelandic" muslims or Catholics please get extra upset for the fact that Iceland allowed the Bahai in there. 00002:

But really good news about the Asatru temple. This is wonderful to know. 01:

[Loki]

But really good news about the Asatru temple. This is wonderful to know. 01:

Wow... that would be on top of my list as a tourist attraction! I definitely want to see this... wow again.

[Lundi]

The temple would be built on the same hill as Reykjavík's famous rotating restaurant Perlan, or "The Pearl"

Seen here in the background:



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Although it would be built on the other end of the hill within a very beautiful forested area :animal-sm

[Sigrid]

The building of such a temple will cause a gathering of the ancients in that the ancestral spirits and ancestors so vital to the Heathen religion will become focussed or concentrated in that area, like a node of energy, operating through the people who go there to honour them.

When will there be a campaign to reinstate and rebuild the great temple at Upsala, broken down by the Christians? Or the re-rection of the broken Irminsul? Or the felled Thorburn's oak of the Saxons? These are our true monuments. Maybe they will return to us as we return to them.

[Rose of Rohan]

Millions of mosques in England, millions. But not one in Cornwall....yet... (SW England has the lowest population of immigrants in the UK.)

[Sigrid]

Millions of mosques in England, millions. But not one in Cornwall....yet... (SW England has the lowest population of immigrants in the UK.)

Apparently they go up at a rate of one a week.:O

[Krissi]

I got angry while reading about the mosque... The first thing I'm gonna see every morning when I to work or school would be that f-ing mosque and belive me when I say that's NOT what I wanna see.