Religious Endowments Minister Mohamed Mokhtar decreed on Tuesday that all mosques in Egypt are to be supervised and administered by the ministry, however small they may be.
He assigned the ministry to implement the decision within a month.
The minister also banned all NGOs from collecting donations inside mosques, and asked worshippers not to pay any money without taking a receipt from the mosque’s management.
He instructed imams not to let anyone deliver a speech from the pulpit or give religious lessons without prior written permission from the ministry.
He also said that the Friday sermon would be the same in all mosques and would be limited to large mosques only.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
