Masjid

In the hustle and bustle of Pettah, Colombo’s core commercial district, is situated a most striking building, a spiritual haven called Jamiul Alfar Masjid. This mosque is remarkable because the architecture is Indo-Saracenic, incorporating pomegranate-shaped domes. But the most extraordinary feature is that each brick is painted red or white and used in contrasting designs, which gave rise to its …

What they have been dreaming for over two years, when they started with the construction of the Islamic Cultural Center in the German city of Mainz, members of the jemaat from the mentioned city finally achieved. In the presence of a large number of their friends from neighboring and other jemaats, the members of jemaat of Mainz officially opened the …

"There was a happiness that could not be translated into words," one attendee said By Dana Reszutek A week before the important Jewish holiday of Passover, New Yorkers of various faiths gathered April 14 to celebrate it — in a mosque in midtown Manhattan The Islamic Society of Mid Manhattan hosted a multifaith Passover celebration with Temple Emanu-El and the …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has inaugurated one of the biggest European mosques in the capital, Moscow. “This mosque will become an extremely important spiritual center for Muslims in Moscow and the whole Russia,” Putin said in a televised speech during the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday. The unveiling ceremony of the 20,000-square-meter mosque, known as the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, in the …

MAKKAH – Putting final touches on preparations to receive millions of pilgrims from around the world, the officials in the Grand Mosque in Makkah have revealed that the fourth floor or mataf, or circumambulation area around the Kaaba, will be ready before hajj next September. “We have increased the capacity of the mataf in the Grand Mosque," Sultan Al-Qurashi, projects …

JEDDAH – Amid preparations for world's largest gathering of Hajj, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz inaugurated the third expansion of the Grand Mosque to accommodate over 1.85 million pilgrims. “Pilgrims and visitors will say goodbye to the problem of over crowdedness," the head of Grand Mosque and Prophet's Mosque Affairs Abdulrahman Al­Sedais was quoted by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) …