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Prince Charles visits King Hussein Mosque Amman, Mar 12 (Petra) Prince Charles of Wales on Tuesday visited the King Hussein Ibn Talal Mosque in Amman accompanied by His Majesty the King's personal envoy HRH Prince Ghazi Ibn Mohammad who briefed him on the various stages of building the mosque which holds about 5,500 worshippers. Prince Charles, who and his wife Camilla began a visit to the Kingdom yesterday, expressed his admiration for the mosque's interior and exterior designs, decorations and Islamic calligraphy as well as the domes and pulpit which was designed by students from the Balqa Applied University modeled on Saladdine Pulpit in Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque. Prince Charles met Muslim and Christian clerics and academics from Jordanian universities in the presence of director of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies Kamel Abu Jaber, the European Union ambassador and the British Cultural Centre's director, for a discussion of the Amman Message. The document was launched in 2004 to spread awareness to the human community of the real teachings of Islam as a religion that embraces the values of justice, moderation, tolerance and accepting the other while it shuns fanaticism and inward-looking. Prince Ghazi said the aim of the Amman Message was to depict and spread the true image of Islam as a faith based on middleground, moderation, tolerance, love, accepting the other and abhors extremism. Prince Charles hailed the Amman Message's importance in promoting religious coexistence. //Petra//SS 12/3/2013 - 05:50:49 PM

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