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The main feature of the mosque is a huge dome, the largest of its kind in the country, [9] which covers the main prayer-hall. [3] Adorned with verses from the Quran , the dome has an interior height of 31.3 m (103 ft), an interior diameter of 75 m (246 ft), an exterior diameter of 86 m (282 ft), [ 1 ] and a total area of 4,117 m 2 (44,320 sq ft).
Sundial indicating prayer times, situated in the courtyard of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia. Author: Keith Roper. Salat times are prayer times when Muslims perform salat. The term is primarily used for the five daily prayers including the Friday prayer, which takes the place of the Dhuhr prayer and must be performed in a group of aibadat.
Maghrib prayer at Masjid al-Haram in Saudi Arabia. The Maghrib prayer (Arabic: صلاة المغرب ṣalāt al-maġrib, "sunset prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayers), and contains three cycles . If counted from midnight, it is the fourth one.
The five prayer times are known in Arabic as fajr (فجر), dhuhr (ظهر), asr (عصر), maghrib (مغرب), and isha (عشاء). In Turkey , they are called sabah, öğle, ikindi, akşam , and yatsı ; the five calls to prayer are sung in different makams , corresponding to the time of day.
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. [12] 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 ...
Salah is not performed in graveyards and bathrooms. It is prohibited from being performed after Fajr prayer until sunrise, during a small period of time around noon, and after Asr prayer until sunset. The prohibition of salah at these times is to prevent the practice of sun worship. [50]
Five times every day, Muslims are called to prayer from the minarets of mosques which are scattered around the country. [68] [69] Since 2006, the weekend has been Friday-Saturday, as a compromise between Friday's holiness to Muslims and the Western weekend of Saturday-Sunday. [70] [71]
According to the Ja'fari and Zaydi schools of thought the time period within which the Asr prayer must be recited is the following: Time begins: once the Dhuhr prayer (mid-day daily prayer) has been recited. [8] Time ends: at the beginning of the setting of the Sun. However, it is very important to recite the prayer as soon as the time begins.