{"id":9211,"date":"2020-06-01T14:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T14:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/9211-maidenhead-mosque-broadcasts-call-to-prayer-on-sunday-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T14:01:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T14:01:54","slug":"maidenhead-mosque-broadcasts-call-to-prayer-on-sunday-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/9211-maidenhead-mosque-broadcasts-call-to-prayer-on-sunday-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Maidenhead mosque broadcasts call to prayer on Sunday for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maidenhead mosque has broadcasted the symbolic call to prayer today &#8211; but the doors of the mosque remain closed to members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Maidenhead mosque has broadcasted the symbolic call to prayer today &#8211; but the doors of the mosque remain closed to members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saghir Ahmed, chairman of the Islamic Trust in Maidenhead, said that the broadcast would provide &#8216;much solace&#8217; to the community during a challenging time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mosques up and down the country have remained closed during the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Councillor David Coppinger, lead member for Maidenhead, said: \u201cI am delighted that we have been able to help. It has been a very difficult and challenging Ramadan and I hope the call to prayer brings some comfort to our residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The call to prayer took place at 1.30pm and lasted approximately five minutes but no prayers were held in the building due to social distancing rules.<\/p>\n<p>Saghir said: \u201cI am grateful to Councillor Coppinger for allowing us to broadcast the Adhaan, it provides much solace to our community during what has been a challenging time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maidenhead mosque has broadcasted the symbolic call to prayer today &#8211; but the doors of the mosque remain closed to members.\u00a0 Maidenhead mosque has broadcasted the symbolic call to prayer today &#8211; but the doors of the mosque remain closed to members.\u00a0 Saghir Ahmed, chairman of the Islamic Trust in Maidenhead, said that the broadcast &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1773,251],"class_list":["post-9211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-maidenhead-mosque","tag-prayer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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