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Coronavirus: Hundreds of Muslims pray together from balconies in Morocco
Country on lockdown since 19 March, with mosques, schools and nonessential shops all shut
Hundreds of Muslims in Morocco have been filmed praying together from their balconies as the country’s lockdown continues amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A state of medical emergency was declared on 19 March, which, as with many other countries, has closed all but essential stores and forced residents to stay indoors.
On Friday, many mosques throughout Morocco — and the wider Muslim world — stopped communal prayers for the first time in living memory
After the imposition of such restrictions, locals in Tangier, a coastal city in the country’s north-west, took to their balconies and rooftops on Saturday evening to take part in mass prayer.
Prayer is one of the “five pillars” of Islam, performed five times a day by the devout, but enjoined as a communal activity at noon on Fridays.
But with the rapid spread of Covid-19 across the globe, some governments have suspended communal prayers or closed mosques entirely, leaving many of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims to pray at home, at work, in parks or in the street.
In Mecca, Islam’s holiest sanctuary, the usually crowded courtyard around the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque has been left all but deserted after Saudi authorities ramped up the country’s containment measures.
At Riyadh’s al-Rajhi mosque, only the imam, the muezzin who sings the call to prayer, and other staff were allowed inside instead of the thousands who normally attend during Friday prayers.
“This feeling is indescribable ... the minarets are crying. The mosques were once full of worshippers,” Nasser Mohammed, the mosque muezzin, told Reuters last week.
Coronavirus: Hundreds of Muslims pray together from balconies in Morocco
Country on lockdown since 19 March, with mosques, schools and nonessential shops all shut
Hundreds of Muslims in Morocco have been filmed praying together from their balconies as the country’s lockdown continues amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A state of medical emergency was declared on 19 March, which, as with many other countries, has closed all but essential stores and forced residents to stay indoors.
On Friday, many mosques throughout Morocco — and the wider Muslim world — stopped communal prayers for the first time in living memory
After the imposition of such restrictions, locals in Tangier, a coastal city in the country’s north-west, took to their balconies and rooftops on Saturday evening to take part in mass prayer.
Prayer is one of the “five pillars” of Islam, performed five times a day by the devout, but enjoined as a communal activity at noon on Fridays.
But with the rapid spread of Covid-19 across the globe, some governments have suspended communal prayers or closed mosques entirely, leaving many of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims to pray at home, at work, in parks or in the street.
In Mecca, Islam’s holiest sanctuary, the usually crowded courtyard around the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque has been left all but deserted after Saudi authorities ramped up the country’s containment measures.
At Riyadh’s al-Rajhi mosque, only the imam, the muezzin who sings the call to prayer, and other staff were allowed inside instead of the thousands who normally attend during Friday prayers.
“This feeling is indescribable ... the minarets are crying. The mosques were once full of worshippers,” Nasser Mohammed, the mosque muezzin, told Reuters last week.
