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Its prayer halls can hold 100,000 worshippers, while the surrounding porticoes and the courtyard up to 200,000 more. [47] [48] Faizan-e-Madinah: Karachi, Sindh: 20,000: 10,000 m 2 (110,000 sq ft) 1999 A Mosque and education center run by Dawat-e-Islami. One of the largest mosques in Pakistan covering over 10,000 m 2 with a capacity of over 20,000.
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. [6] 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 ...
To calculate prayer times two astronomical measures are necessary, the declination of the sun and the difference between clock time and sundial clock. This difference being the result of the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and the inclination of its axis, it is called the equation of time. The declination of the sun is the angle between sun's ...
Shia doctrine permits the mid-day and afternoon and evening and night prayers to be prayed in succession, i.e. Zuhr can be followed by Asr once the mid-day prayer has been recited and sufficient time has passed, and Maghrib can be followed by Isha'a once the evening prayer has been recited and sufficient time has passed.
The Faisal Mosque (Urdu: فیصل مسجد, romanized: faisal masjid) is the national mosque of Pakistan, located in the capital city, Islamabad. [1] [2] It is the sixth-largest mosque in the world, the largest mosque outside the Middle East, and the largest within South Asia, located on the foothills of Margalla Hills in Islamabad.
Masjid-e-Tooba or Tooba Mosque (Urdu: مسجد طوبٰی) also known as Gol Masjid, [1] [2] is located in the city of Karachi, Sindh the province of Pakistan. It is situated in the phase 2 of DHA (Defence Housing Authority), Karachi. [3] [2] The construction of the mosque began in 1966 and completed in 1969.
Faizan-e-Madinah in Karachi. Arshadul Qaudri and Islamic scholar Shah Ahmad Noorani, since 1973 head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), along with other Pakistani Sunni scholars, selected Ilyas Qadri, who was the then Punjab president of Anjuman Talaba-e-Islam, JUP's youth wing, aged 23, as the head of Dawat-e-Islami at Dār-ul ´ulūm Amjadia.
At the Baitul Mukarram Masjid there is an Islamic educational institute, or madrasa, within the mosque grounds, where students can get Islamic education. [13]The mosque and its associated area covers approximately 2.0 hectares (5 acres). [14]