Mark Tran 
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on Saturday that the mosque of Sufi Imam Abu al-Ikhlas al-Zarqani, located on Mahmoudiyah Road in Alexandria’s Gheit al-Anab neighbourhood, will be demolished in order to complete the Mahmoudiyah corridor project.
Sisi explained that the mosque has hampered the construction of the Mahmoudiyah corridor and bridge development project in Alexandria during the inauguration of several greenhouses as part of the second phase of Mohamed Naguib’s protected agriculture base project.
The Northern Zone Engineering Division demolished 14 mosques on the Mahmoudiyah road to build the Mahmoudiyah Corridor project, as well as larger mosques that could accommodate worshipers without impeding traffic movement.
In January 2019, Mohammed Foda, the deputy chiefdom of Sufi movements in Alexandria, stated that the chiefdom was not notified of the demolition of the Sufi mosques overlooking the Mahmoudiyah canal, claiming that Zarqani’s followers had been opposing the demolition for over a decade.
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