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On September 11, 2013, it hosted an interfaith prayer service, as part of its participation in the U.S. Ahmadiyya's annual "Muslims for Life" blood drive campaign in honor of 9/11 victims. The event was to include speakers from Houston Baptist University and from Lutheran, Jewish, Hindu, Jain, Sikh, and Zoroastrian faiths. [6]
The main prayer hall can house up to 1000 people; this area is reserved for men. [13] As of 2000, every Friday about 1000 people attend the jumu'ah (juma) prayer. [13] The second floor prayer hall, reserved for women, houses about 200–300 people. A balcony from the second floor extends over the first floor.
Minaret at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. A minaret (/ ˌ m ɪ n ə ˈ r ɛ t, ˈ m ɪ n ə ˌ r ɛ t /; [1] Arabic: منارة, romanized: manāra, or Arabic: مِئْذَنة, romanized: miʾḏana; Turkish: minare; Persian: گلدسته, romanized: goldaste) is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques.
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Houston has an Ahmadiyya community with a mosque. [25] The mosque is located in northern Harris County. [26] On Thursday, May 22, 2008, [27] Sheikh Najam Ali ran an advertisement in his newspaper, the Pakistan Times, that stated that the Ahmadiyya were Muslim and that
FBI Houston personnel and specialized teams will be on-site for several hours," the agency said in its post. "This activity is related to this morning's New Orleans attack, but due to the ongoing ...
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 ...
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.