Friday prayers banned at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid over Gaza
No congregational prayers have been allowed for six consecutive Fridays at Srinagar’s historic Jamia Masjid over apprehensions of protests in reaction to the situation in Gaza, with the mosque’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest. A spokesman for the Anjuman Auqaf, the mosque’s caretaker body, said the grand mosque was being targeted and … Read more
