Pangasinan Muslims soon to have new cemetery

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LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Aug. 2 (PNA) -- The Muslim community in Pangasinan will soon have a new resting place for their departed loved ones set to be built on a two-hectare lot in Barangay Laguit Padilla, Bugallon town.

Governor Amado ‘Pogi’ Espino, III, in a meeting on August 1 with officials of the Pangasinan Integrated Muslim Assembly (PIMA), vowed to support the establishment of a public cemetery for Muslims in the lot donated by Oscar Angeles, a philanthropist from Mangaldan town.

The sole burial ground of Muslims in the province located in Alaminos City is now congested, thus the need for a new public cemetery for them.

Governor Espino likewise vowed to sustain the good partnership of the provincial government and the Muslim communities in the province in fostering development advocacies and initiatives.

PIMA president Guia Macmod, on behalf of about 60,000 Muslims in the province, has also expressed gratitude to the lot donor and the support to come from the provincial government.

The proposed site for the new public cemetery is also in a strategic location in the central part of the province, Macmod said.

“I am doing this because I want to help my Muslim friends,” said Angeles during the meeting, as he disclosed that the processing of legal documents and records for the transfer of rights of the property to be donated is jointly undertaken by the provincial assessor’s and legal offices.

Macmod has also lobbied for funding from the provincial government for the construction of road access leading to the proposed cemetery.