"It does not seem to me, alas, that the French model worked out for the best," Alfano told the Corriere della Sera newspaper when asked about French cities outlawing the burkini.
He added that the government plans to tighten security with stricter control over Muslim religious activities in the country.
"We are working to facilitate the consolidation of a model in which an imam has training in Italy in order to work in our country… A disclosure of all places of worship, with full compliance with the rules, is necessary to avoid mini-mosques in garages," Alfano said.
According to the interior minister, nine Muslim clerics have been deported from Italy over suspicions of preaching radical Islam since the beginning of the year.
In February, Austria passed a law cutting funding of mosques from abroad in a bid to fight extremism. In July, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said his government plans to follow the Austrian example.
