49-year-old Indian national Saji Cheriyan is not your average businessman.
Christian expat Cheriyan landed in UAE with a meagre amount of a few hundreds of dirhams in 2003 and now, nearly 15 years later he has earned enough to give back to the society. Cheriyan is making headlines across the gulf because he has recently done something extremely noble. He gifted a mosque to hundreds of workers this Ramadan.
He built the mosque for Muslim workers who were living in a worker accommodation. The mosque is built at a cost of Dh 1.3 million in the East Ville Real Estate complex in Al Hayl Industrial Area.
The mosque premises can easily accommodate as many as 250 worshippers at a time along with facilitating for another 700 to pray in the interlocked courtyard.
Cheriyan who comes from Kayamkulam, a small town in Kerala decided to build this mosque after he saw workers taking taxis to go to the nearest mosque.
“They have to spend at least Dh20 to go to Fujairah city or another industrial area to attend the Juma prayer in a mosque. So, I thought it will make them happy if I build a mosque here next to their accommodation.” said the businessman, reports Gulf News.
According to the businessman, the mosque is now fully complete and ready to open with the full support of Awqaf in Fujairah.
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