SINGAPORE - An elderly man spent four months living out of a staircase landing in Bukit Gombak before he was referred to the Safe Sound Sleeping Places programme at Assyakirin Mosque for rough sleepers and the homeless.
he Mecca Masjid is one of Hyderabad’s most historic buildings. Begun in 1617 during the reign of the sixth Qutb Shahi ruler, Sultan Muhammad, it was completed 76 years later, in 1693, when Hyderabad was under the rule of the Mughals under Aurangzeb. As the rule of Hyderabad passed on to the Nizams, the Mecca Masjid was the kingdom’s principal mosque. Today, a quintessential part of the Mecca Masjid is its set of 15 chandeliers, all of them white, which are suspended from the 75-foot-high ceiling.
Srinagar: Unlike in the past when colorful pictures of worshippers were the theme of Jama Masjid calendar, this year the 14-page calendar has captured the deserted look of the grand mosque following its continuous closure by the government.
Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) – The foundations of a prayer hall from the 12th century have been discovered under the Al-Nuri mosque -- where the Islamic State group once proclaimed their "caliphate" -- in Iraq's Mosul, site managers said Tuesday.
The seer, who belongs to Kalika mutt located in Arasikere, was arrested after a complaint was filed by Yathiraju, a security supervisor of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).