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Sundial indicating prayer times, situated in the courtyard of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia. Author: Keith Roper. Salat times are prayer times when Muslims perform salat. The term is primarily used for the five daily prayers including the Friday prayer, which takes the place of the Dhuhr prayer and must be performed in a group of aibadat.
Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a bustling metropolis that sits on the banks of the River Nile.Home to an estimated 22 million people, the city has more recently expanded into a sprawling jumble ...
Friday prayer (Tehran, 2016), Ayatollah Jannati as the Imam of Friday Prayer. In Shia Islam, Salat al-Jum'ah is Wajib Takhyiri (at the time of Occultation), [34] [35] which means that there is an option to offer Jum'ah prayers, if its necessary, conditions are fulfilled, or to offer Zuhr prayers. Hence, if Salat al-Jum'ah is offered then it is ...
The mosque originally stood outside the walls of Cairo, but when the Fatimid vizier Badr al-Jamali rebuilt and extended the city walls in 1087, the northern side of the mosque, including its minaret, was incorporated into the northern city wall (between the newly-built gates of Bab al-Futuh and Bab al-Nasr).
The Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, regularly used for Congregational prayer. [1] [2]A congregational mosque or Friday mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد جَامِع, masjid jāmi‘, or simply: جَامِع, jāmi‘; Turkish: Cami), or sometimes great mosque or grand mosque (Arabic: جامع كبير, jāmi‘ kabir; Turkish: Ulu Cami), is a mosque for hosting the Friday noon prayers ...
The mosque has a capacity of nearly 17,000 people and is considered Egypt's second largest mosque. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The mosque is located on the New Middle Ring Road in the New Capital and is considered the 2nd biggest mosque in Egypt after the Islamic Cultural Center (Grand Mosque) and one of the mega-mosques worldwide. [ 5 ]
An Imam of Friday Prayer is expected to be distinguished for intellect , faith , and righteousness. Traditionally, a Friday prayer imam must be male and, according to some, also of legitimate birth. [7] Moreover, it is recommended that the imam be eloquent, brave, watchful of prayer times, and true in his speech. [8]
Amr ibn al-As, by order of Caliph Umar, was the Arab general that conquered Egypt from the Romans. In 641, before he and his army attacked their capital city of Alexandria (at the northwestern part of the Nile river delta), the commander had set up his tent on the eastern side of the Nile, at the southern part of the delta. As the story is told ...