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Saifee Masjid
The Saifee Masjid, officially known as the Ghurrat ul Masajid, is a Dawoodi Bohra Shi'a mosque, located in the Bhendi Bazaar area of South Mumbai, in the state of Maharashtra, India. The mosque was constructed by Taher Saifuddin in the early 20th century. History The 51st leader of the Dawoodi Bohras, Syedna Taher Saifuddin built Saifee Masjid in 1926, and it was the largest community mosque of that time. Syedna Taher Saifuddin laid the foundation stone of the mosque on May 6, 1923 (21 Ramadan, 1341 Hijri) and inaugurated the completed mosque in a period of three years on March 9, 1926 (25 Shaban 1344 AH). Saifuddin delivered sixteen Ashara Mubaraka sermons in this mosque, and his son, Mohammed Burhanuddin, the 52nd leader, delivered thirteen Ashara Mubaraka sermons. In 2011, Burhanuddin delivered his 100th birthday discourses. The foundation stone for reconstructing the mosque was laid in 2018 by Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin as part of the Bhendi Bazaar redevelopment project u ...
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Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust
Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust (SBUT) is a non-profit organization established in 2009 to undertake one of urban India's largest makeover projects of sheer magnitude and impacting around 20,000 people. The redevelopment project was, envisioned by 52nd Dā'ī al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras community, Mohammed Burhanuddin. Today, the redevelopment of Bhendi Bazaar continues under the guidance of 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq. The project spans over an area of 16.5 acres comprising decrepit buildings, 3,200 families, and 1,250 shops. It is transforming into a modern and elaborate sustainable development embodying 11 new towers, wider roads, modern infrastructure, open spaces, commercial areas, among others. Of the total 3,200 families covered in the project, nearly all families have vacated their premises to facilitate the ambitious construction work. In 2019, the first phase of the project was completed with the construction of the high-rise Al Sa’adah Towers. As of February 2021, af ...
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Mufaddal Saifuddin
Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin () is the spiritual leader, the 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of more than one million Dawoodi Bohras, a subgroup of the Tayyibi, Musta'li, Ismaili Shia branch of Islam. He is the second son of the 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq, Mohammed Burhanuddin, whom he succeeded in 2014. He is the Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia situated in India. A direct descendant of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed, Saifuddin's lineage traces back through the Prophet's daughter, Fatima al-Zahra, and her husband, Ali ibn Abi Talib, continuing through Imam Hussein and the Ismaili Imams up to Ja'far al-Sadiq In Egypt, he rebuilt shrines of the Ahl al-Bayt and is personally responsible for the restoration of medieval Fatimid architecture, notably Al-Anwar Mosque, Al-Aqmar Mosque, Al-Juyushi Mosque, and Lulua Mosque. In Yemen, he has spearheaded several campaigns to improve socio-economic conditions of the inhabitants of the Haraaz region, introducing su ...
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Dawoodi Bohras
The Dawoodi Bohras are a religious denomination within the Ismā'īlī branch of Shia Islam. They number approximately one million worldwide and have settled in over 40 countries around the world. The majority of the Dawoodi Bohra community resides in India, with sizable congregations in Pakistan, Yemen, East Africa, and the Middle East. They also have a growing presence in Europe, North America, and Australia. The Dawoodi Bohra community follows Islam and is specifically identified as Shia Fatimid Ismaili Tayyibi Dawoodi Bohra. Their faith is founded on the conviction that there is only one God, that the Quran is the message of God, that the Islamic prophet Muhammad is the last of the prophets, and that Ali is his legatee and successor. They follow the tenets of Islam, such as reciting the Quran, performing the five daily prayers (Salah), annual tithes of 2.5% (or 1⁄40) of total income and savings (Zakat), fasting during the month of Ramadan (Sawm), the mandatory Hajj pil ...
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List Of Mosques In India
This is a list of notable mosques in India, organised by state or union territory. , India had more than active mosques and had the third largest Muslim population in the world. Andaman and Nicobar Islands Andhra Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Jammu and Kashmir Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Meghalaya Punjab Rajasthan Tamil Nadu Telangana Uttar Pradesh West Bengal See also * Anti-Mosque campaign in India * Islam in India * Lists of mosques ** List of grand mosques ** List of largest mosques ** List of oldest mosques ** List of tallest mosques A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ... ** List of mosques in Kolkata References {{Li ...
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Shia Islam In India
Shia Islam was brought to the Indian subcontinent during the final years of the Rashidun Caliphate. The Indian subcontinent also served as a refuge for some Shias escaping persecution from Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyads, Abbasids, Ayyubid dynasty, Ayyubids, and Ottoman Empire, Ottomans. The immigration continued throughout the second millennium until the formation of modern nation-states. Shi'ism also won converts among the local population. Shia Islam has a long history and deep roots in the subcontinent. However, the earliest major political influence was that of the Shia dynasties in Deccan. It was here that the indigenous and distinct Shia culture took shape. After the conquest of Golconda Fort, Golconda by Mughal Empire, Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in the 17th century and subsequent establishment of hereditary governorship in Nawab of Awadh, Awadh after his death, Lucknow became the nerve center of Indian Shi'ism. In the 18th century, intellectual movements of Islamic puritanism ...
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Saifee Masjid
The Saifee Masjid, officially known as the Ghurrat ul Masajid, is a Dawoodi Bohra Shi'a mosque, located in the Bhendi Bazaar area of South Mumbai, in the state of Maharashtra, India. The mosque was constructed by Taher Saifuddin in the early 20th century. History The 51st leader of the Dawoodi Bohras, Syedna Taher Saifuddin built Saifee Masjid in 1926, and it was the largest community mosque of that time. Syedna Taher Saifuddin laid the foundation stone of the mosque on May 6, 1923 (21 Ramadan, 1341 Hijri) and inaugurated the completed mosque in a period of three years on March 9, 1926 (25 Shaban 1344 AH). Saifuddin delivered sixteen Ashara Mubaraka sermons in this mosque, and his son, Mohammed Burhanuddin, the 52nd leader, delivered thirteen Ashara Mubaraka sermons. In 2011, Burhanuddin delivered his 100th birthday discourses. The foundation stone for reconstructing the mosque was laid in 2018 by Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin as part of the Bhendi Bazaar redevelopment project u ...
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Bab Al-Futuh
Bab al-Futuh () is one of three remaining gates in the city wall of the old city of Cairo, Egypt. It is located at the northern end of al-Mu'izz Street. The other two remaining gates are Bab al-Nasr (Victory Gate) in the north and Bab Zuwayla (Gate of Zuwayla) in the south. The gate was built during the Fatimid period, originally in the 10th century, then rebuilt in its current form in the late 11th century. History When Cairo was originally founded in 969 by the Fatimid general Jawhar, on behalf of Caliph al-Mu'izz, it was surrounded by a set of city walls built in brick and pierced by multiple gates. Later, during the reign of Caliph al-Mustansir, the vizier and army commander Badr al-Gamali rebuilt the city walls and its gates in stone. The present gate was thus completed in 1087, along with the neighbouring Bab al-Nasr gate. Bab al-Futuh was originally called ''Bab al-Iqbal'', or "the Gate of Prosperity", but was given its present name when Badr al-Gamali reconstructed ...
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Rajasthan
Rajasthan (; Literal translation, lit. 'Land of Kings') is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India by population, seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern side, where it comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert (also known as the Great Indian Desert) and shares a border with the Pakistani provinces of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab to the northwest and Sindh to the west, along the Sutlej-Indus River valley. It is bordered by five other Indian states: Punjab, India, Punjab to the north; Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to the northeast; Madhya Pradesh to the southeast; and Gujarat to the southwest. Its geographical location is 23°3' to 30°12' North latitude and 69°30' to 78°17' East longitude, with the Tropic of Can ...
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Makrana
Makrana is an urban city located, near Kuchaman City, at the centre of state in Didwana-Kuchaman district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Rajasthani language is widely spoken here. It also served as a tehsil headquarters, with 136 villages under its jurisdiction thus making it the largest tehsil in the district. The biggest village of Makrana tehsil by area is Modicharna. Makrana is west of Jaipur and north-east of Jodhpur. Makrana is known for the part it has played in building the Taj Mahal by supplying marble, craftsmen and stonemasons to build the iconic UNESCO world heritage centre. It is one of the developing cities in the state. The marble from the town Makrana which is known as Makrana Marble, gets the GHSR (Global Heritage Stone Resources) status from the IUGS. Geography Makrana is located at , and has an average elevation of . It lies in the middle of the Aravalli Range, and these mountains are the source of its fame as a marble producer. History Makrana wa ...
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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany, while the country lost further territories to First Vienna Award, Hungary and Trans-Olza, Poland (the territories of southern Slovakia with a predominantly Hungarian population to Hungary and Zaolzie with a predominantly Polish population to Poland). Between 1939 and 1945, the state ceased to exist, as Slovak state, Slovakia proclaimed its independence and Carpathian Ruthenia became part of Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary, while the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed in the remainder of the Czech Lands. In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, former Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš formed Czechoslovak government-in-exile, a government-in-exile and sought recognition from the ...
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Quran
The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which consist of individual verses ('). Besides its religious significance, it is widely regarded as the finest work in Arabic literature, and has significantly influenced the Arabic, Arabic language. It is the object of a modern field of academic research known as Quranic studies. Muslims believe the Quran was orally revealed by God to the final Islamic Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad through the Angel#Islam, angel Gabriel#Islam, Gabriel incrementally over a period of some 23 years, beginning on the Night of Power, Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632, the year of his death. Muslims regard the Quran as Muhammad's most important Islamic view of miracles, miracle, a proof of his prophet ...
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