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Salaam Gateway
April 4, 2018
The emir has instructed that a working team be constituted to develop an integrated mechanism to regulate the process of registration of worshipers who intend to perform Itikaf in the Prophet's Mosque. Earlier, the Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques had launched online registration facility forÃâà...
Yeni Şafak English
April 3, 2018
Scores of Israeli settlers on Monday entered East Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex to mark the third day of the Jewish Passover holiday. “As many as 244 settlers swarmed into the site via the Al-Maghariba Gate, which has remained under strict Israeli control since the city's occupation inÃâà...
UrduPoint News
April 2, 2018
ISLAMABAD, Apr 2 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 2nd Apr, 2018 ):The prospective worshipers who intend to perform the ritual of Itikaf (seclusion and staying in the mosque with the intention of worshiping) during the month of Ramadan will be allowed to do so only on the roof of the Prophet's (PBUH)Ãâà...
My Salaam
April 2, 2018
Leading the way is the UNESCO World Heritage city of Kairouan, centred around the Great Mosque of Kairouan. This holy city was once the capital of the Aghlabid dynasty, who also built the impressive forts in Sousse and Monastir. In Tunis, the UNESCO-listed 7th-century Medina spirals out from theÃâà...
Florida Bulldog (blog)
April 1, 2018
U.S. District Judge George Daniels has rejected Saudi Arabia's motion to be removed as a defendant in a civil suit in which thousands of 9/11 family members, survivors and insurers allege Saudi government officials and agents supported the al Qaeda plot that killed 2,996 people, injured more than 6,000Ãâà...
Business Standard
April 1, 2018
Christians visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, located on a site known for the death, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, while Muslims come to the city to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina, he added. Madah said Jerusalem in not only visited by Muslims,Ãâà...
Architectural Digest
March 30, 2018
Located within the walls of the medina, the hotel is made up of a series of connected riads with tucked-away courtyards, pools, and a rooftop garden with lounge dining, more courtyards, another plunge pool, and an amazing view of the Koutoubia Mosque. The melodic calls to prayer echoing from theÃâà...
INSIDER
March 29, 2018
The heart of Marrakech is its medina, a walled city of maze-like streets that dates back as early as 1072. The streets are ... We hired a man with a wooden cart called a carrossa to carry our bags into depths of the medina. We ran behind .... The Moulay El Yazid Mosque in all of its architectural glory. AllisonÃâà...
Beliefnet
March 29, 2018
The Al-Aqsa Mosque is one of the three Holy Masjids (mosques) in Islam. The other two are the Holy Masjid in Mecca and the Prophet Muhammad's Masjid in Medina. One prayer in Al-Aqsa is said to be worth 250 prayers elsewhere, a prayer in the Prophet Muhammad's Masjid is worth 1,000 prayers elsewhere and aÃâà...
Live Law
March 23, 2018
“The mosque in Mecca-Medina was built by the Prophet himself carrying each stone…such is the significance of every mosque or temple…I argue for every Muslim and every Hindu…the whole case rests on whether Your Lordships proceed on the position before (the demolition of the Babri Masjid) in 1992Ãâà...
Rudaw
March 17, 2018
The height of its sixth minarets outsize those of the Prophet Mohammed's mosque in Medina. ... According to data gathered by the Turkish government, 13,000 mosques have been built since Erdogan took office. ... They regarded the construction of a mosque near the square as a threat to secularism.
CNN
March 8, 2018
The first time it happened I was heading into the Grand Mosque to perform tawaf. A man was heading ... The second time I was in the courtyard of the Grand Mosque and I felt something pressing into my lower spine. It was .... During Hajj we were supposed to travel on a bus from Mecca to Medina. As we satÃâà...
The Times
March 8, 2018
The Saudi commerce minister, Majid al-Qasabi, said in an interview with The Times that Saudi Arabia, as the home of the “Two Holy Mosques”, in Mecca and Medina, was a special case, but that it hoped to be open to individuals of all faiths whatever the legal position of public worship. Expatriates wereÃâà...
Condé Nast Traveler
March 6, 2018
Often referred to as the “Mecca of the West” or the “Athens of Africa,” the city has the world's largest and best preserved medina, a labyrinthine network of 9,000 narrow alleyways packed with craftspeople, street food vendors, riads, and mosques. You won't find the modern chaos of Casablanca, the loucheÃâà...
Egypttoday
March 6, 2018
CAIRO – 6 March 2018: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) inaugurated Al-Azhar Mosque on Tuesday after ... and drainage system, along with ventilation and sound systems similar to those used at the two Holy Mosques in Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia.
The Weather Channel
February 28, 2018
The map above shows Medina, Saudia Arabia, nearly 530 miles away from the capital city of Riyadh. At a Glance. A hail storm battered Medina, Saudi Arabia, over the weekend. Dozens were injured at a popular mosque. Schools were closed because of the weather. People were injured and vehicles wereÃâà...
Saudi Gazette
February 23, 2018
Al-Hijaz railway station is allocated in Al-Anbariya district about one kilometer away from the holy mosque in Medina. ... Nora Al-Enizi recommended that the the grand screens around Madinah holy mosque should display the visiting hours for Madinah museums and exhibitions to attract visitors and keepÃâà...
Business Standard
February 22, 2018
Earlier in 2015, a photo of the youngsters playing cards inside the Masjid-e-Nabwi, a mosque in Saudi Arabia's Medina, went viral. The security authorities arrested them for this act, according to the reports. (This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicatedÃâà...
Rutland Herald
February 20, 2018
After two days in Medina, the Rieckers made their way to visit the mosques and sacred sites in Mecca, the holiest city in the Muslim faith, where Muslims gather from all over the world to worship at the Great Mosque, Haram-Sharif, which has a capacity of 4 million people. “You see the incredible diversity,”Ãâà...
AllAfrica.com
February 12, 2018
Algiers — Algeria is going to have one of the largest mosques in the world, as the China's State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) is doubling efforts to deliver this mega project this year. The 265-meter-high minaret of the Great Mosque of Algiers, or Djamaa El Djazair, could be seen from allÃâà...
Salaam Gateway
December 31, 1999
Saudi Arabia has included Bahasa Melayu as one of the foreign languages in the live translation during Friday sermons at Makkah's Grand Mosque and Madinah's Nabawi Mosque. The Imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah (Masjidil Haram), Sheikh Dr Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz As-Sudais, said theÃâà...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
RAMALLAH, March 9, 2018 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas' advisor on religious affairs, Mahmoud al-Habbash, Friday condemned Israeli settlers' erection of tents in the yards of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron earlier today. Al-Habbash said in a statement that Israel, the occupying power, continues toÃâà...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
RAMALLAH, March 9, 2018 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas' advisor on religious affairs, Mahmoud al-Habbash, Friday condemned Israeli settlers' erection of tents in the yards of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron earlier today. Al-Habbash said in a statement that Israel, the occupying power, continues toÃâà...
Khaleej Times
December 31, 1999
"The two contemporary artworks presented in the exhibition reflect different aspects of the environment of this journey to Mecca and Medina. Spaces is not a traditional artwork, the series of photographs reflects the open space around the Grand Mosque, including the surrounding buildings, a public areaÃâà...
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