World's first "women's only" mosque?

[Bhaisahab]

Around 50 women have gathered for the fifth meeting of the Tamil Nadu (a state in India)Muslim Women's Jamaat Committee (MWJC). The first women's jamaat in the world may well lead to the first women's mosque in history. The meeting begins with Rajab Nisha reciting prayers in Arabic to echoes of 'amin'. Slowly the register shifts to intelligible Tamil as Nisha prays: "May Rahman strengthen the women's jamaat! May Rahman weaken the male jamaats that ruin women's lives!" More amins.

Daud Sharifa Khanam, who heads the Pudukkottai-based STEPS Women's Development Organisation, introduces a frail woman from Mukkanamalaipatti village called Sajida Banu, 22. "Sajida is smiling now. Do you recall how she came to our last meeting?" The women shout in unison: "She came crying." Sharifa: "Do you know why she is smiling now? She has sent her man to jail." Sajida was a victim of dowry harassment—an un-Islamic practice—and the local jamaat refused to sympathise with her. After the MWJC intervened...her husband was jailed.
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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. We are taking back Islam

both men and women. Rahman-Divine Mercy-knows no gender.

That being said, there is something about praying with one's own gender and not in a mixed group that is empowering. What I like best is when I pray with women, who are in a group side by side with men-only a narrow aisle between us.