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Hyderabad: Amidst tight security arrangements, the Friday prayers concluded peacefully in the old city, particularly at the Mecca Masjid. Outside the Mecca Masjid, a handful of youth raised slogans against Goshamahal legislator T Raja Singh for a while and later dispersed. Teams of Rapid Action Force and Task Force were deployed to foil any attempt […]

Hyderabad: Conservation works at the Mecca Masjid, one of the largest mosques in India, is lagging behind schedule, albeit due to lack of expert hands with the Department of Heritage and the Department of Roads & Buildings to take up electrification works at the heritage structure. The State government had sanctioned a budget of Rs […]

Hyderabad: The traffic police have issued an advisory in connection with Jumat ul Vida prayers at the Mecca Masjid and at Jamia Masjid on Friday. The main roads between Charminar and Madina, Charminar and Murgi Chowk and Charminar and Rajesh Medical Hall, Shahalibanda will be closed for all types of vehicular traffic from 9 am […]

Hyderabad: All required arrangements are being made at the Mecca Masjid for the ‘Jumat ul Vida’ (last Friday of Ramzan month) prayers. Around 25,000 people are expected to attend the prayers at the historic mosque which is one of the biggest in Asia. The Minority Welfare Department is putting up tents and carpets at the […]

Hyderabad: With Ramzan all set to begin shortly, hectic activity is on witness in different parts of the city. Right from the markets to mosques, people are busy making arrangements to welcome the month. In last two years, Covid triggered lockdowns had dampened the spirit of the month considered to be the holiest in Islamic […]

Hyderabad: Muslims across the city observed Shab-e-Meraj (night of ascension) on Monday night. It falls on the 27th day of the seventh Islamic month of Rajjab. To mark the occasion, special religious programmes were held at various mosques in the city. At the Mecca Masjid, a few thousand people offered prayers and attended religious discourses. […]

Hyderabad: With increased cases of Omicron being reported across the world, the committees of various mosques in the city are back to enforcing the Covid 19 safety protocols during the prayers. At most of the mosques in the city, during the prayers, the ‘Imam’ (one who leads the prayers) is asking the people to adhere […]

Hyderabad: Conservation works taken up at the historic Mecca Masjid will be soon expedited with the Minority Welfare Department asking the Heritage Department to complete the works before Ramzan. The conservation works of the 17th century mosque were initiated in the year 2017 and have been continuing. The authorities had initially fixed a time frame […]

Telangana is situated on Deccan plateau in the peninsular part of India.

One of the biggest mosques in the country, Mecca Masjid can have nearly 10,000 people gather at a time for prayers

Several public meetings planned to be held at various places in the city on the occasion of Shab-e-Baraat were also cancelled

Police said Mohammed Adil Ali (22) along with his friend Mohammed Abdul Khusro (24), both friends and residents of the Hussainialam area, took a car into the premises of the mosque on Sunday and made videos, sitting atop the moving car.

At the historic Mecca Masjid, a few thousand people participated in the prayers and attended the religious discourses that were held at the mosque

In just six years, the government spent a whopping Rs 5,639.44 crore towards welfare of minority communities in State

Considering delicate nature of the 16th century structure, Department of Heritage is taking up works with extreme care