A Muslim cemetery south of the Twin Cities is one step closer to being realized after eight years of vandalism and legal battles over land use.
The Al Maghfirah Cemetery Association received a conditional use permit in June to develop burial plots and a funeral home for land it purchased in 2014. The 72-acre plot in Castle Rock, Minnesota, is expected to offer nearly 50,000 burial plots and will serve Muslims from the Twin Cities and suburban metro area.
“We’ve been waiting to use that land now for eight years,” said Mohamad Osman, president of the cemetery association. “Hopefully, now we have everything we need from the city.”
The cemetery would be the largest of its kind in Minnesota dedicated solely to Muslim burials. Multiple cemeteries in the Twin Cities metro area offer Muslim burial plots in addition to non-Muslim burials.
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