Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was detained in the wake of protests against the Israeli action in the Gaza Strip. He had been kept under house arrest since August 2019.
Anjuman Auqaf, in a statement, said being a place of worship, the visitors are requested to respect its sanctity as a mosque and observe decorum while visiting it.
'Jamia Masjid is shut every Friday,' Asaduddin Owaisi had claimed in a tweet, targetting Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha on the opening of cinema hall in the city.
It is for the first time since August 5 that prayers were offered collectively at the mosque in Nowhatta area of the city. Though security restrictions in the area were lifted after a few weeks, local residents had refused to offer prayers in the mosque till the heavy deployment of security forces around it was removed.
The biggest gathering of devotees was witnessed at Hazratbal shrine where thousands of faithful offered the Eid prayers, officials said.
An angry mob in Jammu and Kashmir lynched a Deputy superintendent of police on Thursday night in the Nowhatta area of the city. His body was recovered from outside the Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta
Srinagar: Amid pro-freedom and anti-India sloganeering outside Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta near Srinagar, a group of men unfurled ISIS flags according to a report published in TOI. ”The protesters were holding Islamic State flags and one
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