Underwater Mosque In Saudi Arabia Ready For Prayers

Mosque is built under water in Saudi Arabia

The First underwater mosque is ready for prayers in the Saudi Arabian town of Tabuk, according to Emirates24/7.com.

“When we put the final touches on it, it was time for afternoon prayers," said diver Hamadan bin Salim Al Masoudi, "so we performed group prayers in the first underwater mosque in history.”

A private group of Saudi Arabian divers built the mosque using plastic pipes filled with sand under the sea close to the border with Jordan, explains Arabian Business.

The mosque is the latest of underwater construction in the Arabian Peninsula which extends to underwater hotels.

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Comments

[Kelley Smith]

01:07 AM on 05/15/2012

Visiting this mosque and Mecca are on my bucket list. This is awesome, one day it will be me, in scuba gear, deep diving to a mosque. What a thrill! Mecca is another place on the list, one day.

[AZLibDem]

09:53 PM on 05/14/2012

Do they use mosque defogger?

[Daniel Loy]

11:14 PM on 05/12/2012

Is this one part of religions dying breath? Religion has become so god damn gimmicky...

[crydespite]

10:48 PM on 05/12/2012

Checks date... no, not 1-Apr.

this is its own parody.

[JackVandusen]

08:46 PM on 05/12/2012

It's right up there with Jim Bakker's Heritage USA.
Resources very well spent.
LOL

[sjaent2001]

05:32 PM on 05/12/2012

“When we put the final touches on it, it was time for afternoon prayers," said diver Hamadan bin Salim Al Masoudi, "so we performed group prayers in the first underwater mosque in history.”------- proves at least one thing for sure that the Saudian beliefs are taking a new turn , after their Grand Muftis recommendation of destroying all churces, that his followers beliefs have gone under the MURKY WATERS ----- FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM SAKE THEY CANNOT PRAY PROPERLY OVER THE GROUND NOW THEY HAVE TO FIND PLACES TO PRAY UNDER THE GROUND OR UNDER THE SEA -------- So God now help the Saudians to take their faith to higher levels rather then under the murky waters.

[utalkin2me]

03:22 AM on 05/11/2012

too many jokes for this one! lol

[y-abebe]

12:45 AM on 05/11/2012

i wish all the rest of other faiths follow the example and go under water.this is one good news .dismantle all and rebuild them under water.please those of you infidels and non believers please do not try to pray for a sunami to see if it works. i think i read your wicked mind!!didn't i!?

[sjaent2001]

05:34 PM on 05/12/2012

Why you have to get wet under water, when the prayers keep you DRY and WELL.

[Sheldon archer]

09:48 PM on 05/10/2012

If they really had faith, they wouldn't bother with the tanks but just breathe like fishes

[sjaent2001]

05:36 PM on 05/12/2012

May be they want to teach their faith to FISHES. Another kind of PREACHING UNDER WATER FOR THE under water CREATIONs OF GOD, to follow these diver faithfuls.

[Sheldon archer]

08:30 PM on 05/12/2012

Wait until a holy, God created shark get them.

[Alex Christie]

06:30 AM on 05/10/2012

Some day all churches will be under water.

[sjaent2001]

05:37 PM on 05/12/2012

LIKE ATLANTIS.

[brokerthanu]

01:52 AM on 05/10/2012

Those people have way too much money.

[Cindbird]

03:58 AM on 05/10/2012

And WAY too much time on their hands.

[sjaent2001]

05:37 PM on 05/12/2012

NOT TIME BUT TOOO MUCH MONEY IN THEIR HANDS

[Brianna Cole]

11:51 PM on 05/09/2012

And I *bet* it is closed to women. How nice.

[Jelle NL]

01:50 PM on 05/10/2012

Yes it's open for women. But just try to do your underwater prayers while carrying oxygen bottles, flippers and a niqab. :)

[Brianna Cole]

01:57 PM on 05/10/2012

Ok, I'm wrong on that one.

[y-abebe]

12:49 AM on 05/11/2012

that was one good real good laughter you gave me.i'm still laughing.thank you.
good imagination. i'm still laughing.ohoooo this isssssssssss goooooooooood!!!!

[sjaent2001]

05:39 PM on 05/12/2012

Their women could not go under water with them, because the women follow the head to toe VEIL, that protects them from other evils and preventing from getting wet under water. God knows best.

[Jelle NL]

04:51 PM on 05/09/2012

Underwater mosque ... a stark warning of climate change and rising sea levels.

[pl1224]

06:12 PM on 05/09/2012

What a wonderful point of view! This mosque can also be seen as a very creative affirmation of the belief that it is appropriate to worship and praise God anywhere and everywhere.

[sjaent2001]

05:49 PM on 05/12/2012

BUt for their prayers getting ablution with water is prescribed for sure, but not getting WET and submerge in water is a new.

LET us see what their Grand Mufti has to say on these prayers as the Qibla they face is over the Ground and under the ground where and what will they face. Determination of Qibla and then facing upward would be the only way to comply with the injunction to face Qibla for the offering of the prayers under water. Just to be newsworthy some people will do anything like going under murky waters and built a mosque, but forget the GUIDANCE AND REGULATIONS IN THE MATTER OF PRAYERS.

There is an oriental poet who rightly said --- the faithfuls built a mosque overnight but sad, the mosque is lamenting they are there but faithfuls have abandoned them.

[y-abebe]

12:50 AM on 05/11/2012

you are very good....

[ipv4]

02:48 PM on 05/09/2012

If only all cults.. I mean worshipers would build their churches/temples/mosques underwater.

[levelhead1]

01:46 PM on 05/09/2012

Like every other religious tradition, ritual, rite, and practice throughout the world, this makes perfect sense.

:eyes rolling in head: