Sentences with phrase «muslim holy city»
Muslim pilgrims prepare for Friday prayers in front of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Sept. 9, 2016.
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Angry clashes have already been reported, and the city is anxious about Friday, the Muslim holy day for weekly mass prayers.
We have 2 million Muslim pilgrims visiting every year to do the Hajj» — the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca — «and they are no trouble.
Jerusalem became the third most holy city of the Muslim world, as it was from Jerusalem that Muhammad began his night journey to heaven.
Religion News Service: New Muslim prayer mat sheds light when facing Mecca Devout Muslims pray five times a day, facing the holy city of Mecca.
In its last centuries as capital of the Byzantine Empire, it was not only the holy city of the Orthodox world, dedicated to the Mother of God, but also a cosmopolitan trading centre, with Venetian, Genoese, Muslim, Jewish, Slav and Avar inhabitants.
I think Americans comparing NYC to Saudi is invalid, in fact Islam's holiest city in Saudi Makkah that is has McDonald, a Starbucks and other American companies right across from the holy mosque, and the Muslims there and anywhere else don't mind there.
Several months ago a New Yorker article described the sensation among ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem caused by a Mississippi cattle breeder who noted an unblemished red heifer in his herd, read Numbers 19 and declared that the animal was a sign that the temple must be rebuilt in preparation for the millennial reign of Jesus — regardless of the escalation of mayhem such exegesis in action would heap upon Jews, Muslims and Christians in the Holy City.
Is Jerusalem the holy muslim, christian or jewish city for life on all planets and galaxies and why should it be?
They have some evidence that Iran have plans to empower the Shia Muslims in neighboring countries like Yemen to use them to destabilize Saudi Arabia and get access to holy cities like Makkah and Madina.
New York City will become the nation's first major metropolis to close its public schools in observance of the two most sacred Muslim holy days, de Blasio announced — a watershed moment for a group that has endured suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba inside the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca after morning prayers, and before the start of this year's hajj pilgrimage.
The resolution, proposed by Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan, and adopted recently at the committee stage, used only Muslim names for the holy sites of Jerusalem's Old City referring to it only as al - Aqsa Mosque / al - Haram al - Sharif (Noble Sanctuary in Arabic).
The city is also a gateway destination for Muslim pilgrims visiting the holy cities of Makkah and Medina.
Other Middle Eastern cities could approach the lethal threshold, including the Saudi holy city of Mecca, a destination for millions of Muslim pilgrims every year, according to the report in the peer - reviewed journal Nature Climate Change.