Muslam me??
Friday, October 20th, 2006Salam you all! This will be the post to tell you about what happend with me inside the oldest mosque in Africa and Egypt. The mosque is called Amr Bin Alas , named after the general of the islamic army that conquered Egypt from the Romans in the year 642 AD. It’s a very nice mosque, with a huge capacity!!!
Ok, so basically what happend was, I entered the mosque at 15:00 to take some pictures and to do some sightseeing of the place. Everything was very nice and normal, and then they started to pray, so I thought, cool! good chance to take some more pics, so I waited and they started, but everyone was looking at me and some of them gave me some perfume a little hat fro praying and a “suek” (a pice of wood, that you peel and then chew so it becomes brushy, and with that you brush your teeth, so your prayers are become stronger). After the praying I was leaving the mosque, and some young guys approche me, asking me if I wanted to talk to them for a minute. I agreed, and we went to a place from the mosque transformed in a huge bedroom, because in the last 10 days of Ramadan, people stay overnight in the mosque praying. They actually live in the mosque for this last 10 days and almost don’t leave the place. The mosque gives food for free, and there were around 600 people staying there.
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