Cape Town Lays Foundation for First Muslim Mortuary at Mowbray Cemetery

Cape Town marked a historic moment on Wednesday with the foundation-laying of the city’s first Muslim mortuary at Mowbray Cemetery. The facility, dedicated to the storage and preparation of bodies according to Islamic burial rites, will serve purely as a storage space and will not conduct autopsies. Faizal Sayed, Chairman of the Muslim Cemetery Board and Secretary of the Burial Administration of the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), said the mortuary […]