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The Malé Friday Mosque, also known as the Malé Hukuru Miskiy (Dhivehi: މާލެ ހުކުރު މިސްކިތް), or the Old Friday Mosque, is a Sufism Sunni Islam mosque, located in the city of Malé, Kaafu Atoll, Maldives. Completed in 1658, the mosque is the oldest and most ornate mosque in the Maldives.
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.
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 ...
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Sunni mosques in the Maldives (6 P) This page was last edited on 7 December 2024, at 14:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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The island has 2 mosques for men, (Majid Salam and Masjid Zikra) and 2 mosques for women. There is an island office, [Secretariat of the Meedhoo Council] and a court and a health centre. There is 1 school [Dhaalu Atholhu Madharusa] which teaches from grade 1-12 and a pre-school [Meedhoo Pre-School].