Cagliari, €50,000 needed for the mosque. A plea to the city: "Give us a hand."

To find it, you can ask Google. If you type "Cagliari Mosque," you'll be directed immediately to the Marina, in the "historic" and tiny structure on Via del Collegio.

But then, immediately afterward, Via XX Settembre 39 appears, where the larger one has been located for seven years, welcoming five hundred Muslims to prayer every Friday at 2 pm. To save it, now, a race against time is needed: to raise fifty thousand euros within two months to close the purchase of the property.

Hence the appeal from the Muslim community of Cagliari (a galaxy of over four thousand people, the vast majority second-generation, meaning born in the city, deeply embedded in the city's productive and social fabric) to the Municipality, the Region, the Diocese of Cagliari, Caritas, all the citizens of Cagliari and Muslims living in Sardinia "to help us raise the 50,000 euros needed to complete the purchase of the mosque and honor the contract with the property owner ," explains Abdou Ndiaye, representative of the local Senegalese community and president of Anolf-CISL Cagliari.

The full article by Mauro Madeddu in L'Unione Sarda, available on newsstands, in the app, and in the digital edition.