A record book for religious properties in Algeria

More than 70 percent of religious properties in Algeria are still unidentified while the government will make a record book for mosques and religious properties before the end of 2009, religious properties director said Tuesday.

• “The identified religious properties in Algeria represent only 30 percent of the total property. Some 5.000 of them were recovered in 1998-2006,” said Belkacem Boukherouata in a seminar in Algiers.
• He also revealed a projected national record book for the 15.000 mosques and the identified religious properties in the country.
• According to Boukherouata, the project will help to create a special institution to manage religious properties already announced by Religious Affairs Minister Abdellah Ghoulamallah.