At London’s Brick Lane Mosque, the women’s prayer hall entrance and the funeral services entrance is one and the same. (Photos supplied by Maryum Saifee)

“It has been an eye opener for those of us Sister Muslimahs to learn of the attitudes and inequality of prayer space for our sisters in what is referred to here in West Africa as ‘GOD’S OWN COUNTRY’ (USA). To that end I wish to share with you some photos of the women’s prayer section […]

“My husband and I were passing Aisha Masjid & Islamic Centre in Reading and thought we would go to pray Asr. Nice as a woman to be welcomed and have lots of space 😉I wanted to give credit where it is due. The building work is still being done but what has been finished is really […]

“Eid prayer Belfast. The second basketball hoops on the picture mark the middle of the room. As you can see the women and children had less than half of the room, in spite of being at least as numerous as the men (probably more since most of the children were with women who also came with […]

“Eid Mubarak from Scarborough. What a blessing to be among a beautiful congregation. Prayers for all my fam around the globe, from Turtle Island to the world, may we all experience peace!” -Safiah Chowdhury

“Shoutout always to my original Muslim community centre Islamic Institute of Toronto for always ensuring equitable space between men and women. This is sunnah (Prophetic practice). The musalah is in the gym without any barriers between men and women. This means small children travel freely between both parents and it’s honestly so heartwarming to see them […]

“Chief mufti of Poland holds regular lectures for women in English and Polish in Warsaw (where he does not live but travels to meet us). A Palestinian man, casually dressed he insists on lectures about universal and contextualised topics opening floor to women to discuss and question everything. Previously he had a series of lectures […]

Women and men pray next to each other, with a partition, in the courtyard of Isfahan’s Jameh Mosque in Iran.

“So messed up. My friend went to this beautiful mosque in DC and the women’s section was a tight closet space and when she went to go pray at the end of the men’s area, a guy harassed her and her mom to go to the closet. She checked in and the guy wasn’t praying […]

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Ever since I was a child, my mom always stressed about the importance of mosque in our life as a muslim. No wonder it becomes my highlight when I had my mini-Indochina trip to Malaysia-Vietnam-Cambodia last April-May.This is the first mosque that I visited, and it is in Malacca, Malaysia. Masjid Selat Melaka (the Malay […]

Yesterday I climbed the 99 m high minaret of Masjid Al-Akbar (Masjid Agung) Surabaya. It represents 99 names of Allah, Asmaul Husna. To me 99 names of Allah are a reminder of best qualities that lies in ourselves, that if we can use it properly, it will elevate us to see life in a different perspective. […]

Spent the first day of Ramadan fasting in Moscow for 19 hours. What an experience! It was tough but the cold breeze helps a lot :D Lucky for me to be able to join iftar and pray at a Mushalla in Indonesian Embassy in Moscow.  +OL

Tatarstan Mosque in Moscow, Russia. I prayed Dhuha at the women section and because nobody’s there, we tiptoed to take picture of the main prayer room. When we about to go out, we can’t. Because apparently we’re locked from the outside. After calling out people from the Masjid’s window, finally the Imam open the Masjid’s […]

Beautiful Nur Mubarak Mosque in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Unfortunately we had to pray at Imam’s office, because women section is renovated and I certainly can’t say to my local Almaty Muslimah friends to pray behind men at the main hall.  +OL

There’s always a weird sense of excitement, sadness, longing and loss felt on the night when everyone is out looking for the moon. A sighting would imply Eid the next day, no sighting means another night of Taraweeh and another day of fasting. The picture below shows the Imam of the mosque announcing that the […]

Babul Ilm is one of very few Shia mosques in the city. My aim was to experience as many variations of Islamic practice as possible and this would’ve been incomplete without visiting a Shia mosque. I was unaware of the size of the Shia community in Pakistan, it is around 10-15% of their population. Most […]