Watch Video: Worshippers back in Masjid e Nabawi after 72 days

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Videos circulating on social media show worshippers performing prayers while adhering to precautionary measures of social distancing

Sunday May 31, 2020 8:27 PM, ummid.com News Network

[Masjid e Nabawi File Photo]

Al-Madinah al-Munawarah: Thousands of worshippers thronged Masjid-e-Nabawi - the Prophet’s Mosque in Al- Madinah al-Munawarah to perform Fajr Prayer on Sunday, after 72 days of closure due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Videos circulating on social media show worshippers performing prayers while adhering to precautionary measures of social distancing.

فيديو | التزام المصلين بالإجراءات الاحترازية المتبعة للوقاية من #كورونا خلال أدائهم #صلاة_الفجر في #المسجد_النبوي #الإخبارية #نعود_بحذر pic.twitter.com/PvFSOuDixK
— قناة الإخبارية (@alekhbariyatv) May 31, 2020

Another video widely shared on social media shows worshippers entering the Holy Mosque carrying prayer mat in one hand and greeting fellow Muslims with the other.

Yet another video shows live broadcast of Adhaan from Masjid e Nabawi with the Muazzin calling Hayya 'ala-Salah and Hayya 'alal-Falah.

فيديو | فتح أبواب #المسجد_النبوي بشكل تدريجي أمام المصلين لأداء #صلاة_الفجر #الإخبارية pic.twitter.com/KtF73tY97K
— قناة الإخبارية (@alekhbariyatv) May 31, 2020

These phrases in the Muslim Call to prayer were earlier replaced by As-salatu-fi-buyutikum - meaning pray at home. The phrases were replaced after the Coronavirus clockdown was clamped and prayers in mosques were restricted in the Kingdom.

Saudi Arabia had announced Saturday that over 90,000 mosques in the Kingdom along with Masjid e Nabawi - the Prophet's Mosque, will reopen on Sunday after a massive sanitization operation.

Al-Aqsa reopened too

Also reopened on Sunday is Masjid al-Aqsa in East Jerusalem - Muslim world's third most holiest place.

Hundreds of people, many of whom wore protective masks, chanted Allah o Akbar - Allah is great, as they stood at the wooden doors of al-Aqsa Mosque, while some kissed the ground.

They were then greeted by mosque director Omar al-Kiswani, who thanked them for being patient.

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