Islamic prayer space, particularly for Eid or funerary prayers
This article is about Islamic small prayer spaces. For the peak, seeMusala. For the glacier, seeMusala Glacier. For the mat used for prayer, seePrayer rug.
“Musalla” may also refer to a room, structure, or place for performingsalah[4] (canonical prayers), and this is also translated as a “prayer hall” when smaller than a mosque. It is often used for conducting the five mandatory dailyprayers, or other prayers in (or without) a smallcongregation, but not for large congregational worship such as theFriday Prayers or the Eid Prayers (the latter is done incongregational mosques if there is no available musalla, in the original sense of an open space). Such musallas are usually present in airports, malls, universities, and other public places in Muslim-majority countries, as well as in some non-Muslim countries for the use of Muslims. A musalla will usually not contain aminbar.
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^"The Sunnah",The Qur’an and the Sunnah, International Institute of Islamic Thought, pp. 27–75, 2014-01-01,doi:10.2307/j.ctvkc66xg.4, retrieved2024-12-27
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