The Ruling on the Proliferation of Building Mosques in Neighborhoods

The questioner:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, the world has opened up for Muslims in their recent years, so they have multiplied the number of mosques in some buildings and neighborhoods until one mosque disturbs another nearby mosque, and the congregation of this mosque decreases so that sometimes there is only a small congregation in the mosque. This is the case in some neighborhoods due to the large number of mosques there, especially in some neighborhoods where there are, I mean, people of wealth and goodness for whom it is not difficult to build mosques, enlarge them, make them bigger, increase their number, and hold the Friday prayer in them?

The Shaykh:
No, the matter is not chaos. Mosques are not allowed to call the adhan. They are not allowed to call it except with a license from the Department of Ifta. You submit an application and the description of the mosque is provided, and there is a committee that looks at it, inspects it, and decides on the mosque, writing down the information. Then, if the Department of Ifta is satisfied, they grant them permission to hold the Friday prayer in it. The matters are regulated, praise be to Allah.

The presenter:
Praise be to Allah, but I mean the proliferation of this phenomenon, the large number of mosques in some...

The Shaykh:
...the large number of people, the crowding of people, people praying in the streets and in the sun. Yes.