{"id":79937,"date":"2020-06-21T14:32:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T06:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79937"},"modified":"2020-06-21T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T06:41:46","slug":"singapore-mosques-to-resume-friday-prayers-june-26-muis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79937","title":{"rendered":"Singapore mosques to resume Friday prayers June 26 &#8211; MUIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SINGAPORE-MOSQUE-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79944\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SINGAPORE-MOSQUE-1024x640.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SINGAPORE-MOSQUE-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SINGAPORE-MOSQUE-768x480.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SINGAPORE-MOSQUE.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5>By Massita Ahmad<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>SINGAPORE, June 21 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Singapore mosques will resume Friday prayers and daily congregational prayers on&nbsp;June 26, with a maximum of 50 congregants per session at each mosque, said&nbsp;Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its website, MUIS said it will continue to adopt a cautious and phased approach to ensure the mosques remain safe, and in full compliance with national guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MUIS&nbsp;said to enable more congregants to perform the Friday prayers, two half-hour prayer sessions will be held every Friday, with an interval of about 30 minutes&nbsp;between the two sessions, to ensure safe crowd management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermons and prayers will be shortened to a maximum of 20 minutes, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from Friday&nbsp;prayers and daily congregational prayers, MUIS said private worship beyond congregational prayer sessions will continue to be available and subject&nbsp;to the same limit of 50 persons at any one time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MUIS&nbsp;noted that it has developed an online prayer booking system to manage the demand and ensure the orderly conduct of the congregational prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system allows for reservation of available prayer spaces for daily and Friday congregational prayers, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To enable more worshippers to perform their Friday prayers, the system will limit the number of bookings an individual can make for Friday prayers to only one reservation within a three-week window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore entered its Phase Two of reopening on June 19 with the&nbsp;easing of restrictions which were imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Massita Ahmad SINGAPORE, June 21 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Singapore mosques will resume Friday prayers and daily congregational prayers on&nbsp;June 26, with a maximum of 50 congregants per session at each mosque, said&nbsp;Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS). In its website, MUIS said it will continue to adopt a cautious and phased approach to ensure the mosques [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":79944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79937"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}