What is the Significance of Friday Prayers in Islam?

What is the Significance of Friday Prayers in Islam?
Mark Graves/The Oregonian via AP

Following the terror attack on two New Zealand mosques last week, many Muslim communities across the world gathered as usual for their most important weekly ritual – Friday prayers.

In the past few years, Muslims have been attacked and killed while praying, many times on a Friday. Worshippers have been targeted in countries such as Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq and Kuwait.

Muslims pray five times a day every day, but the most important prayer of the week is "jumah," or the day of gathering, on Friday.

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