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The Nurul Islam Mosque is a Sunni Islam mosque in the Bo-Kaap area of Cape Town, South Africa. When it was founded in 1844, the structure could hold 150 worshipers. Renovated in 2001, it can now hold 700 worshipers. [1]
The Queen Victoria Mosque, also called the Jamia Mosque, is a mosque, situated at the corner of Chiappini and Castle street, in Cape Town, South Africa. [1] It is considered to be the first and oldest mosque in Cape Town, [2] [3] and the largest in the Bo-Kaap area of Cape Town. [4] The mosque is a National heritage site. [5]
It was constructed in 1794 during the first British occupation of the Cape on land belonging to Coridon van Ceylon, a Vryezwarten (freed Black Muslim slave). [1] Coridon's daughter, Saartjie van de Kaap, inherited the property that was being used as a warehouse, and donated it for the use as South Africa's first mosque.
After South Africa became a democracy in 1994, there has been a growing number of Muslim migrants from South Asia and North Africa; however, their numbers are fairly low. [ citation needed ] Most of the non-South African Muslims are urban dwellers and thus live in or near Cape Town , Durban , Port Elizabeth , East London , Kimberley , Pretoria ...
One club from Cape Town plays in the Premiership, South Africa's premier league, Cape Town City F.C. Cape Town was also the location of several of the matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup including a semi-final, [257] held in South Africa. The Mother City built a new 70,000-seat stadium (Cape Town Stadium) in the Green Point area.
[citation needed] Asr ends at sunset. The middle prayer mentioned in the Quran 2:238, is interpreted by Islamic scholars as being either the Asr prayer or the Fajr prayer. Muslims are commanded to protect the middle prayer, meaning that it should be performed at all costs. [5] Al-Asr is also the title of the 103rd sura of the Qur’ān. [6]
Asr salat is the third of the obligatory prayers that Muslims offer daily. [11] It is also known as “middle prayer." The Asr prayer starts when the shadow of an object is the same length as the object itself (or, according to Hanafi school, twice its length) [citation needed] plus the shadow length at Dhuhr, and lasts till the start of sunset ...
The Palm Tree Mosque, or the Church of Jan van Bougies, or the Dadelboom Mosque, is a former residence and current mosque in Long Street, Cape Town, South Africa. It is the oldest substantially unaltered building in Long Street. [1]