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    Couple create interactive Muslim map of Poland to show the many faces of Polish Islam. – The First News.

    Couple create interactive Muslim map of Poland to show the many faces of Polish Islam – The First News

    HISTORY | LIFE JOANNA JASIŃSKA, AUGUST 02, 2020

     
    The Muslim map aims to lift the lid on Islam in Poland.

    A Polish couple have made an interactive map of Poland marking sites and communities connected with Islam
    in an effort to demonstrate that there is more to the country than Tatars when it comes to the Muslim faith.
    The map has been prepared by Anna and Karol Wilczyńscy, who run the ‘Islamista’ blog and are spending their
    summer presenting the unknown faces of Polish Muslims.

    The map’s creator: Anna and Karol Wilczyńscy.

    The couple has specialised in Islam and Arab culture for over 10 years. This time, due to the pandemic, rather
    than travelling to Asia to explore the Islamic life they have focused on unknown treasures hiding in their own
    country.

    Before World War II, Poland was a melting pot of religions and cultures, with a vibrant Muslim Tatar
    community living in the area for over 600 years.

    “Tartars are a minority within a minority,” Anna told TFN. “The majority of Muslims in Poland at the moment
    are people with migration experience. This means that they are partly Muslims from the Middle East, partly
    from Pakistan, India, Central Asia and the Caucasus. There are also Muslims from Ukraine, from Russia, so
    here we have a full cross-section of different countries, and also traditions.”
    The interior of a mosque in Gdańsk.

    Culture-curious travellers should definitely visit Kruszyniany and Bohoniki in eastern Poland. Still inhabited by
    Polish Tatars, they are the best places to learn about their traditions, as well as see wooden mosques and mizars
    – Muslim cemeteries.
    However, the Polish Muslim community not just the Tatars. Anna and Karol made sure to connect with
    communities who have started to build their lives in Poland more recently. While there is no precise data, it is
    estimated there are 3,000 Tatars in Poland and even up to 30,000 other Muslims – immigrants and converts.

    A ruined mosque in Kościelec.

    “We have tried to show the diversity not only within Islam in general, for example, the different approaches to
    the faith and traditions of Tartars and migrant Muslims, but also how diverse every single one of those
    communities is within itself,” explained Anna.
    “This diversity isn’t caused just by religious differences, but also by other characteristics. Even in Poland, Islam
    is not a monolith.”
    The Muslim Map of Poland will include interviews with community leaders and members who will present
    their different views. The guests will include Mufti Nidal Abu Tabaq, the head of the Muslim League - the
    biggest Islamic organisation in Poland - Imam Youssef Chadid from Poznań, and Dagmara Sulkiewicz – one of
    Polish Tatars and Islam teacher living in Białystok.
    Other spots on the map and places of interest are the mosque in Kościelec near Koło which has never been used
    for prayer, the cemetery in Studzianka, a mullah’s grave in Sochaczew, or the Turkish House in Kraków. Many
    of these places are tended to by local guides, who are happy to share their vast knowledge and understanding of
    these places' unique character and history.

    The tombstone of Tatar Major Jan Okmiński.

    The tombstone of General Józef Bielak, a Tatar who was also a Knight of the Order of Virtuti Militari,
    dating back to 1794.

    Even the name of their blog could spark controversy. In Polish, for many years the word ‘Islamista’ meant an
    expert on Islam. A couple decades ago the word acquired a second connotation taken from English – a radical
    practitioner of Islam.

    “Not many people realise, that this word is insulting to an average Muslim,” Anna explained.
    Now, using their knowledge and travels, Anna and Karol hope to bring the many faces of Muslim culture even
    closer. With their publications, podcasts, and videos, which will culminate in the interactive map, they want to
    invite everyone to get to know the history, monuments, and people connected to Islam in Poland.

    TAGS: ISLAM, KRUSZYNIANY, MAP, MIGRANTS, TATARS, POLISH MUSLIMS, BOHONIKI

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