Imbul Imam sheltered in his mosque in cats

The imam of one of Istanbul mosques opened its cats for cats. Mustafa EF calls cats the "guests" of the mosque. Cats, firstly, understand this well and feel completely at home. One “guest” even transferred all her kittens to the Muslim house, and this is the highest sign of trust, according to the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph .

Istanbul is known for its many street inhabitants from the "mustache-striped" family. In this regard, the city, which in the days of Byzantium was called Constantinople, is now sometimes called Catstantinople. I must say that the inhabitants of Istanbul are kind to cats - they feed, sometimes build “houses” for them for an overnight stay for them. However, these measures are spontaneous, but the Imam Mustafa EF gave cats the opportunity to sit in the mosque truly on a wide cat's leg. They especially like the fact that carpets are laid everywhere in the mosque.

Cats do not interfere with visitors, although sometimes they can begin to fly right in the middle of believers performing prayers. The prayers are quite tolerant of them. Maybe because they read the post of Imam on the Facebook Mustafa page, which wrote that the kittens brought to the mosque filled his heart with compassion.

Once upon a time, cats in Istanbul began to be bred to fight rats and mice. In 2012, in Turkey, they started talking about the need to adopt a law on sterilization of homeless animals, but the project was postponed after 30 thousand people took to the streets of the city in protest.

By the way, in Turkey there is a certain tradition that states that if a person has killed a cat, he must build a mosque. Only then will he be forgiven by God.