(RNS) A new prayer mat lights up when facing Mecca, helping Muslims to pray properly. By Lauren Markoe. (RNS) Devout Muslims pray five times a day, facing the holy city of Mecca. But what if you don’t ...

In a former life, when I was working on a PhD in South and Southeast Asian literature, I had the opportunity to visit many different Muslim countries. It was always struck by how Islamic culture ...

Did you know that the Masjid-e-Nabawi, the second holiest mosque in Islam, recently introduced high-tech prayer mats that have electronic chips embedded in them? These mats, which are equipped with a ...

For Nigerian Muslims who may find it difficult to locate which direction is the West to carry out their prayers, there is actually nothing to worry about now. This is because a London-based Turkish ...

For more than 200 million Muslims in Indonesia, Mecca just moved. Instead of facing Islam’s most holy city, a clerical error of astronomoical proportions has seen ...

(RNS) — A Muslim convert, Mustafa Dustin Craun cherishes a brown prayer rug he bought on his first Umrah pilgrimage to the sacred site of Mecca more than 15 years ago. Unlike the Hajj, the mandatory ...

The founder of a Muslim hiking group hopes that a prayer mat he helped to design will allow more people in the community to experience the beauty of the outdoors and share more memories. Muslim Hikers ...

MADINAH, June 1 (Bernama) -- The Prayer Mat Sdn Bhd (TPM), a distributor of prayer mats from Madinah and Makkah, aims to open 30 outlets in Malaysia and hopes to reap sales worth RM9 million this year ...

The mats bearing the images of the Kaaba which were seized by religious officials are actually mini prayer rugs and not floor mats, says supermarket chain Aeon BiG Sdn Bhd. The mats bearing the images ...

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) Devout Muslims pray five times a day, facing the holy city of Mecca. But what if you don't know what direction Mecca is? Try the new illuminated prayer mat.