Nine facts about England’s new stunning multi-million-dollar mosque
Abu Huraira Mosque in Beeston, Leeds, is without a doubt among the most stunning in all of England.
Over the last 10 years, the local Kashmir Muslim community has saved up and raised funds to build the mosque, which opened this week. Here are nine other facts about the beautiful new mosque.
- The name of the mosque, Abu Huraira, means “father of a kitten” in Arabic. It is also the name of a famous companion of the Prophet Muhammad, Abd al-Rahman Ibn Sakhr, whose love of cats was well-known. Abu Huraira was one of the most prolific narrators of the hadith (prophetic traditions); he narrated over 5,000 of them.
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Tharik Hussain