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  2. List of mosques in the Maldives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of mosques in the Maldives. The first mosques built in the Maldives were initially made of materials that easy degraded over time such as wood, coconut, and palm leaves. Later on, by the middle of the 17th to early 19th centuries, Maldivian coral stone mosque architecture developed and flourished.

  3. Women in the Maldives - Wikipedia

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    With the exception of a failed attempt to force women to wear hijabs in the 17th-century, covering their heads continued to be uncommon among Maldivian women until the 20th-century. [7] From the 1980s onward, the wearing of hijabs started to become more common in the Maldives due to growing Islamic conservatism.

  4. Islam in Maldives - Wikipedia

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    In Malé, the Islamic Centre and the Grand Friday Mosque, built in 1984 with funding from the Persian Gulf states, Pakistan, Brunei, and Malaysia, are imposing, elegant structures. [2] The gold-colored dome of this mosque is the first structure sighted when approaching Malé. [2] In mid-1991 Maldives had a total of 724 mosques and 266 women's ...

  5. Nilandhoo (Faafu Atoll) - Wikipedia

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    Faaf Nilandhoo- Aasaary Mosque. The Aasaari Miskiiy, on the island of Nilandhoo in Faafu Atoll, is the second oldest mosque in the country, built during the reign of the first sultan, Mohamed Ul-Adil (1141-1166 d.c.). Some say the mosque is 800 years old and built by Sultan Mohamed Ibn Abdhulla, who was responsible for converting the country to ...

  6. Category:Mosques in the Maldives - Wikipedia

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    List of mosques in the Maldives This page was last edited on 13 April 2021, at 09:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  7. Culture of the Maldives - Wikipedia

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    A boy sandboarding in Fuvahmulah, Maldives. The status of women in the Maldives was traditionally fairly high, as attested to in part by the existence of four Sultanas. Women typically wear the veil, but are not required to do so by law nor are they strictly secluded. Special sections are reserved for women in public places, such as stadiums ...

  8. Islamic Centre (Maldives) - Wikipedia

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    The mosque's golden dome is evident on the skyline of Malé and is highly visible. The mosque's interior walls are decorated with woodcarvings and Arabic calligraphy. The Centre's Grand Friday Mosque, Masjid al-Sultan Muhammad Thakurufaanu al-Auzam , was the largest mosque in the Maldives, [ 1 ] until the opening of the King Salman Mosque in ...

  9. Women's mosques - Wikipedia

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    The first women's mosque in the United States opened in 2015, located in a multifaith cultural centre in the Pico-Union district. [24] Qal'bu Maryam Women's Mosque, Oakland, California. The first women's mosque in the San Francisco Bay area, and the second in the United States, opened March 4, 2017, is located in the City of Refuge Church in ...