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The muvakkithane ("lodge of the muwaqqit") in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. In the history of Islam, a muwaqqit (Arabic: مُوَقَّت, more rarely ميقاتي mīqātī; Turkish: muvakit) was an astronomer tasked with the timekeeping and the regulation of prayer times in an Islamic institution like a mosque or a madrasa.
The centre houses 2 large prayer halls which can hold up to a thousand people and a separate prayer facility for sisters. They have an established tradition for providing Islamic education for children. Their evening maktab started in 1975, followed by our Hifz madrasa in 1983 and the full time Darul Uloom boys secondary school began in 1985.
Al Rehab (Arabic: مدينة الرحاب pronounced [mæˈdiːnɪt eɾ.ɾeˈħæːb], literal meaning: "City of Spaciousness") is a district of New Cairo and a part of Greater Cairo, in the Cairo Governorate, Egypt. It is a private city built by the Talaat Moustafa Group. Al Rehab is a fully-fledged community, which creates a comprehensive ...
From the time of the early Church, the practice of seven fixed prayer times has been taught, which traces itself to the Prophet David in Psalm 119:164. [12] In Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus instructed Christians to pray seven times a day, "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours associated with ...
The Dar al-Muwaqqit of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque (marked by the double-arched window overlooking the courtyard). A Dar al-Muwaqqit (Arabic: دار المؤقت), or muvakkithane in Turkish, is a room or structure accompanying a mosque which was used by the muwaqqit or timekeeper, an officer charged with maintaining the correct times of prayer and communicating them to the muezzin (the person ...
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Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif is a Sunni mosque in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, England. The website Muslims in Britain classifies the Ghamkol Shariff Masjid as Sufi – Barelvi. [1] Construction began on 15 March 1992, during Ramadan. [2] Each night throughout its construction, a hafiz recited the Holy Quran on the construction ...
Zawahiri was born June 19, 1951, the son of an upper-middle-class family of doctors and scholars in the Cairo suburb of Maadi. His father was a pharmacology professor at Cairo University’s ...