12544041 - The courtyard of Jumraa Musjid (Croat Mosque),...

Victorian Stereoview card from circa 1900 India through the stereoscope.1903 historic social history images. There is no god but God and Mohamet is His prophet,prayers in mosque Ahmenabad. You are in the courtyard of Jumraa Musjid (Croat Mosque)' the chief place of Moslem worship, in the centre of the city. These worshippers are more tolerant than Moslems in general. As a rule they regard a photographerâ€™s camera as an impertinence to be resented, but in this particular instance they are practically ignoring the infidel observer. A map of India would show that you are about 800 miles directly north of Bombay, These men are, of course, facing toward Mecca in Arabia, while they say their prayers. You can judge for yourself with that fact in mind and the direction of the shadows to guide you. in what direction you yourself are looking and about what is the time of day This is the great courtyard of the mosque proper; the building itself, with its prayer-niche, is. of. course, at your left. Notice the men have punctiliously removed their shoes before praying. Their hands and feet have been washed ceremonially clean before offering their praises in the prophetâ€™s name. Their use of these mats is, like the use of more beautiful rugs in other places, not so much a matter of personal luxury as one of the provisions for keeping ceremonially clean during the act of worship The inscriptions over there on the wall correspond in function to the sculptures and paintings on the walls of a Christian church; they are pious texts and reminders to devotion. Prince Karageorgeovitch in his â€œEnchanted India tells of a visit to this very mosque.

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