{"id":8608,"date":"2013-04-07T23:36:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T22:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2013-04-07T23:36:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T22:36:27","slug":"muslim-prayers-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=8608","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Prayers in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13040604.jpg\" alt=\"Muslim Prayers in Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday it was a privilege to join with the Abingdon Muslims during Maghrib prayers (salah) at 19:50.<\/p>\n<p>The Abingdon Muslims regularly meet for communal prayers at the Guildhall on a Friday, and have done for some time. But recently they have been meeting in a small room, kindly shared for free by a local business owner in East St Helen Street on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>I gather Muslims pray 5 times a day, these prayers are compulsory for all adult men &#038; women on a timetable that changes depending on the sunrise and sunset.<\/p>\n<p>Today I followed their prayer timetable and took pictures at each prayer time:<br \/>\nSunrise : 6:22, Zuhr : 13:15, Asr : 17:45, Maghrib : 19:51, Isha : 21:30.<\/p>\n<p>Regular prayer keeps Muslims mindful of Allah (God) throughout the day and praying in congregation develops community spirit and strengthens relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday it was a privilege to join with the Abingdon Muslims during Maghrib prayers (salah) at 19:50. The Abingdon Muslims regularly meet for communal prayers at the Guildhall on a Friday, and have done for some time. But recently they have been meeting in a small room, kindly shared for free by a local business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}