RELIGIOUS Chennai - Part 1 :- MOSQUES

As the city if full of people from various parts of the world, here in our city people of different religion are found everywhere together without any differences. Chennai a fast growing metropolitan city is a place with broad minded people who treat everyone equally. In our city it is always HUMANITY first and then comes RELIGION, CASTE etc. So in this blog you will get to know about famous mosques in Chennai and there location. 

1. Bahram Jung Mosque:

Bahram Jung Mosque is a mosque anchored in the neighborhood of Nandanam in Chennai, India. The mosque was complete amid 1789 and 1795 by Mohammad Abdullah Qadir Nawaz Khan Bahadur Bahram Jung, a artist in the cloister of Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah, the Nawab of the Carnatic.

2. Casa Verona's Mosque:

Casa Verona's Mosque is a mosque in the Muthialpet breadth of Georgetown in Chennai, India. It is one of the oldest mosques in the city-limits and was complete by Casa Verona, a dubash of the British East India Company.

3. Dharma Kidangu Mosque:

Dharma Kidangu Mosque is a mosque anchored in Angappa Naicken Street in the Georgetown neighborhood of Chennai, India. It is advised to be the oldest mosque in Muthialpet. The aboriginal mosque congenital of rock was burst in 2008 and a new mosque built.

4. Hafiz Ahmad Khan Mosque:

Hafiz Ahmad Khan Mosque is a mosque anchored in the neighbourhood of Chepauk in Chennai, India. The mosque was complete in 1818 by Hafiz Ahmad Khan, a Carnatic cloister official and adolescent brother of Bahram Jung who complete the Bahram Jung Mosque. The mosque is anchored next to Vivekanandar Illam.

5. Makkah Masjid:

The masjid is amid in the affection of the city-limits of Chennai in Mount Road. The Chief Imam of the masjid is " Moulana Moulavi Samsudeen Kasimi" who is a able-bodied accepted personality in Tamil Nadu. He comes from "Udangudi " abreast Tiruchendur" from Thutukudi District". The masjid Imam(another Hafiz Imam) leads Appropriate Tarawee Namaz" during Ramzan and the Chief Imam action appropriate bions every year. This is one of the few masjid that allows Muslim women to action prayers and yield allotment in the appropriate bions.

6. Masjid-o-Anwari:

Masjid-o-Anwari is a mosque in the neighborhood of Triplicane in Chennai, India. It was complete by Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic in the 18th century. Located in Big Street, the mosque was acclimated as a congregational mosque until 1847.

7. Periamet Mosque:

Periamet Mosque is a mosque anchored on Poonamallee High Road in Chennai, India. The mosque is called afterwards the Periamet neighbourhood in which it is located.

8. Thousand Lights Mosque:

Thousand Lights Mosque, a multi-domed mosque in Anna Salai in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the better mosques in the country and is a admired abode of adoration for Muslims. It was congenital by Nawab Umdat-ul-Umrah in 1810.

9. Triplicane Labbai Jamaath Masjid:

Triplicane Labbai Jamaath Masjid is a mosque amid in the neighborhood of Triplicane in Tamil Nadu, India. Constructed in 1889, above renovations accept been planned.

The above said are few of the popularly known mosques in Chennai. Each mosque has its own spiritual power and even Hindus visit these mosques which makes it really special. These mosques conduct Madrassah's, teach Urdu language, marriages also take place here, they provide counselling for people who are in need and also they help the travellers by providing food, shelter etc. As the Muslims are in minority when compared to Hindus of Chennai, it is only the mosques which brings together the whole community and where Muslim brothers and sisters stand together side by side, equal.