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380 Nazenin Ruso<br />
Our mosques capacity : 30.000.000<br />
The number <strong>of</strong> people who visit these mosques regularly:1500<br />
The percentage <strong>of</strong> occupied mosques: 5 %<br />
As it can be seen from the table, the interest in attending mosques is very low in TRNC.<br />
Considering the capacities, the mosques are almost empty. The same statistics reveal the times when<br />
the mosques are most crowded. Imams were given the alternatives as Friday, bairam, daily, Ramadan,<br />
and special and were asked to put numbers next to each alternative grading 1 as the most crowded and<br />
5 as the least crowded.<br />
Statistics<br />
FRIDAY DAILY BAYRAM RAMADAN SPECIAL<br />
N Valid 117 89 121 115 111<br />
Missing 15 43 11 17 21<br />
Mean 2,75 4,75 1,11 2,89 3,12<br />
Bairams are the busiest times for mosques. After Bairams, Ramadan month is a very important<br />
reason for praying. Then comes the Friday prayers. After that, Muslims attend to mosques on special<br />
nights such as “kandil” nights and finally the least interest demonstrated in the data is for daily prayers.<br />
Following pie chart demonstrates the nationalities <strong>of</strong> people who attend to mosques. As it is<br />
shown, the ratio <strong>of</strong> Turkish people who attend to mosque is more than the Cypriots.<br />
Missing<br />
All<br />
NATIOANALITY<br />
Turkish<br />
Cypriot<br />
The pie chart below illustrates the case that older people visit mosques more than the younger<br />
people.<br />
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