A picture taken on April 24, 2020, shows Saudi men performing prayers next to the Kaaba in Mecca’s Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest site, on the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, amid unprecedented bans on family gatherings and mass prayers due to the coronavirus pandemic. (STR / AFP)
An illuminated Jama Masjid mosque in New Delhi, India
Image Credit: AFPA volunteer from the Violet organisation disinfects a mosque in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib
Image Credit: AFPA man reads the holy Quran at the courtyard of the Jami mosque in Herat
Image Credit: AFPAerial view of a deserted mosque in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India
Image Credit: ANIA devotee attends a prayer on the first day of Ramadan, at the Jame Mosque in Kathmandu, Nepal
Image Credit: AFPThe New Mosque, on Eminonu Square Istanbul, Turkey
Image Credit: AFPDevotees wearing facemasks pray as they maintain social distance at Shahi Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad, India
Image Credit: AFPA picture shows Saudi policemen standing guard next to the Kaaba in Mecca’s Grand Mosque, on the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Image Credit: AFPAn aerial view of the Suleymaniye mosque in Istanbul, Turkey
Image Credit: AFPParamilitary personnel stand guard outside a closed mosque in Guwahati, Assam, India
Image Credit: ANIPeople walk past a closed mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
Image Credit: AFPThe Sultanahmet mosque, known as the Blue mosque, in Istanbul, Turkey
Image Credit: AFPA man walks outside the entrance of the Red Mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Image Credit: AFPTwo men stand at a deserted Jamia Mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Image Credit: AFPFor the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims, the month of Ramadan is a social and spiritual high point of the year, a time to gather with friends and family and to focus on fasting, prayer and scripture, but the coronavirus pandemic is transforming this Ramadan in unprecedented ways in societies across the globe, clearing out mosques, cancelling communal prayers and forcing families to replace physical gatherings with virtual meet-ups. | Above: The Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey/AFP
A view of the deserted mosque in Kolkata, India
Image Credit: ANIA view from outside the closed Imamzadeh Saleh mosque in the Iranian capital Tehran’s Shemiran district
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