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Dubai – Each current and deliberate personal or public prayer rooms are topic to new guidelines
A brand new decision issued in Dubai prohibits anybody from constructing, allocating or modifying an area for use as a prayer room with out prior approval.
Non-public prayer rooms can solely be established topic to approval from the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Actions Division (IACAD).
This got here as Dubai Crown Prince and Chairman of The Government Council Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum issued the decision regulating prayer rooms within the Emirate.
It applies to all current and deliberate prayer rooms in Dubai, together with these positioned in free zones or particular improvement zones.
Underneath the decision, the IACAD is authorised to license private and non-private prayer rooms in accordance with the phrases and situations accepted by its director-general.
The decision is efficient from its date of publication within the Official Gazette.