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Bangladesh has 250,399 mosques:

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Dhaka, March 2 (bdnews24) The number of mosques in Bangladesh stands at more than 250,000, the state minister for religious affairs tells parliament. "According to a survey conducted by the Islamic Foundation in 2008, there are 250,399 mosques in the country," Shahjahan Mia said on Tuesday in reply to a query from Sunamganj-5 MP Muhibur Rahman Manik during the question-answer session. "Some 67,019 imams of those mosques have been given training for self-employment," he added. "The government has also formed Imam-Muezzin Welfare Trust and allocated Tk 160 million for it in a bid to provide development assistance to the imams." Shahjahan said that under the mosque-based children and mass education project, the imams were acting as teachers, and for that, each of them is paid Tk 2,000 a month as honorarium. He added that there was a policy for financial allocation to religious institutions and "all the funds are given following due policy and procedure". While answering to another question put by Rajshahi-6 MP Shahriar Alam, cultural affairs minister Abul Kalam Azad said: "In the current fiscal year, Tk 9.84 million has been provided for the cultural institutions, while Tk 150,000 for the financially disadvantaged cultural personalities."

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