MUMBAI: Maybe no mosque in Mumbai’s suburbs can match its grandeur. Its blue dome and the solitary minaret, seen from afar, make Jama Masjid Al Shams at Mira Street stand out amidst residential buildings. Now the current renovation comprising gold leafing works on the pillars and partitions, innovative sound system for melodious azaan plus soothing lights collectively improve the mosque’s magnificence.
The enduring mosque couldn’t have acquired trendy devices and higher have a look at a extra sacred time. Because the holy month Ramzan begins from Sunday, worshippers (it may accommodate round 5000 at a time) at Masjid Al Shams can simply really feel and benefit from the change.
As you enter the mosque’s premises via its huge (20X15 ft) Burma teak principal door, you discover the courtyard’s ground cool shaded as it’s by ferrari sheets above. “The sheets replicate the warmth, maintaining the stone ground cooler than it’s when uncovered to the summer time solar. The goal is to provide most consolation to the worshipers. Visiting the mosque shouldn’t be monotonous and boring. It must be a pleasant expertise,” says Jama Masjid Al Shams’s managing trustee and ex-MLC Muzaffar Hussain. Based by Hussain’s father Syed Nazar Hussain (he’s credited to have established the fashionable Muslim colony Naya Nagar in Mira Street) in 1979, the muse stone laying ceremony for the mosque had many eminent company, together with senior clerics Maulana Syed Hamid Ashraf, Maulana Zaheeruddin Khan, Maulana Hamid Faqih, Maulana Syed Athar Ali and Maulana Mohammed Hanif Azmi. “It was and stays the most important mosque within the suburbs. I’m glad Nazar Hussain’s household has made great efforts to take care of the large mosque and likewise enhance the amenities, “says Athar Ali.
Hussain has for lengthy been involved in regards to the high quality of sound in azaan known as out at mosques in India. “I at all times wished that the azaan at Al Shams ought to sound like those being given on the holy mosques in Mecca and Medina. Muezzins at my mosque have been skilled for months to name out the azaan which is tender, soothing and never jarring to the ears,” explains Hussain, displaying us the devices stored in a nook room on the mosque.
Hussain was additionally pained at seeing the congregations on Fridays, Eid and Bakrid spill out on the roads. “This actually disturbed me. Other than inconveniencing others, the congregations generally have been held additionally on unclean roads and even above gutters. Now we’ve got two jamaats (congregations) on Fridays and the Eids. If somebody has missed the primary jamaat, he can be a part of the second, half an hour afterward the mosque premises,” he says. “This association has solved the issue of spilling out. Our volunteers be sure that no person provides namaz on the highway right here,” informs the mosque’s supervisor Akmal Syed. Other than adorning the pillars and partitions with 99 names of Allah and Prophet Muhammad, the renovation additionally included putting in airconditioning in and carpeting on the primary ground. Dozens of ceiling followers are nonetheless operational however the air-conditioning on each floor and first flooring present welcome respite from the stifling warmth.
Because the month of piety and prayers start, this huge mosque in Mira Street awaits a rush of rozedars (fasting folks) at ordinary five-time prayers each day plus tarawih, the particular namaz provided within the evening solely in Ramzan.
The enduring mosque couldn’t have acquired trendy devices and higher have a look at a extra sacred time. Because the holy month Ramzan begins from Sunday, worshippers (it may accommodate round 5000 at a time) at Masjid Al Shams can simply really feel and benefit from the change.
As you enter the mosque’s premises via its huge (20X15 ft) Burma teak principal door, you discover the courtyard’s ground cool shaded as it’s by ferrari sheets above. “The sheets replicate the warmth, maintaining the stone ground cooler than it’s when uncovered to the summer time solar. The goal is to provide most consolation to the worshipers. Visiting the mosque shouldn’t be monotonous and boring. It must be a pleasant expertise,” says Jama Masjid Al Shams’s managing trustee and ex-MLC Muzaffar Hussain. Based by Hussain’s father Syed Nazar Hussain (he’s credited to have established the fashionable Muslim colony Naya Nagar in Mira Street) in 1979, the muse stone laying ceremony for the mosque had many eminent company, together with senior clerics Maulana Syed Hamid Ashraf, Maulana Zaheeruddin Khan, Maulana Hamid Faqih, Maulana Syed Athar Ali and Maulana Mohammed Hanif Azmi. “It was and stays the most important mosque within the suburbs. I’m glad Nazar Hussain’s household has made great efforts to take care of the large mosque and likewise enhance the amenities, “says Athar Ali.
Hussain has for lengthy been involved in regards to the high quality of sound in azaan known as out at mosques in India. “I at all times wished that the azaan at Al Shams ought to sound like those being given on the holy mosques in Mecca and Medina. Muezzins at my mosque have been skilled for months to name out the azaan which is tender, soothing and never jarring to the ears,” explains Hussain, displaying us the devices stored in a nook room on the mosque.
Hussain was additionally pained at seeing the congregations on Fridays, Eid and Bakrid spill out on the roads. “This actually disturbed me. Other than inconveniencing others, the congregations generally have been held additionally on unclean roads and even above gutters. Now we’ve got two jamaats (congregations) on Fridays and the Eids. If somebody has missed the primary jamaat, he can be a part of the second, half an hour afterward the mosque premises,” he says. “This association has solved the issue of spilling out. Our volunteers be sure that no person provides namaz on the highway right here,” informs the mosque’s supervisor Akmal Syed. Other than adorning the pillars and partitions with 99 names of Allah and Prophet Muhammad, the renovation additionally included putting in airconditioning in and carpeting on the primary ground. Dozens of ceiling followers are nonetheless operational however the air-conditioning on each floor and first flooring present welcome respite from the stifling warmth.
Because the month of piety and prayers start, this huge mosque in Mira Street awaits a rush of rozedars (fasting folks) at ordinary five-time prayers each day plus tarawih, the particular namaz provided within the evening solely in Ramzan.