For Muslims around the world, prayer is one of the most important acts of worship in daily life. One of the best-known features of Islamic prayer is that Muslims face a specific direction when they ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction. The Segbroek police station in The ...

Mansoor Dahri, Surrey, UK Five times a day the Muslims of the world pray in the direction of the city of Makkah (also spelled ...

JAKARTA, July 16 (Reuters) - Indonesia's Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of ...