Al-Masjid an-Nabawi · Sample masjid website by Mihrab

Prayer times

مواقيت الصلاة

Today’s adhan times for Madinah, kept up to date every day.

Fri

Jumu’ah

The khutbah begins at the time of Dhuhr. The mosque and its courtyards fill well before the adhan, so come early.

The times widget is Mihrab’s, the same one any masjid can place on its own site. Times follow the Umm al-Qura calculation for Madinah; the mosque’s own announcements always take precedence.

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حيّ على الصلاة

Prayer times widget by Mihrab

Events

الفعاليات

Sample eventsExample programme showing how events appear. Not real listings.

Announcements

الإعلانات

Sample noticesExamples only.

Lost and found

Items found in the mosque are kept at the lost property office. Bring a description of the item and where you last had it.

Families with children

Please keep children close at all times during busy prayers, and agree on a meeting point at a numbered gate.

Wheelchair access

Wheelchairs and step-free routes are available. Ask a steward at the nearest gate for help reaching the prayer areas.

History

تاريخ المسجد

When the Prophet ﷺ reached Madinah in 622 CE, one of his first acts was to build a mosque beside his home, with his Companions carrying the bricks.

The first building was simple: walls of sun-dried brick, pillars of palm trunks and a roof of palm fronds. Over fourteen centuries it has been enlarged again and again, and today it is among the largest mosques in the world. The resting place of the Prophet ﷺ lies beneath the Green Dome.

صلاةٌ في مسجدي هذا خيرٌ من ألفِ صلاةٍ فيما سواه إلا المسجدَ الحرام

“One prayer in this mosque of mine is better than a thousand prayers elsewhere, except al-Masjid al-Haram.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 1190, Sahih Muslim 1394

Al-Masjid an-Nabawi photographed in 1908 — The mosque in 1908.

1 AH, 622 CE
Built by the Prophet ﷺ and his Companions beside his house.
7 AH
Enlarged by the Prophet ﷺ after the return from Khaybar.
ʿUmar and ʿUthman
Expanded by both caliphs; ʿUthman rebuilt the walls in carved stone.
19th century
Ottoman rebuilding; the dome over the Prophet’s ﷺ chamber is painted green.
Today
Successive Saudi expansions, and the great shading umbrellas across the courtyards.

Visiting

الزيارة

The Rawdah

Ar-Rawdah ash-Sharifah is the area between the Prophet’s ﷺ house and his minbar. “Between my house and my minbar is a garden from the gardens of Paradise.” (Bukhari 1196, Muslim 1390)

A visit needs a permit booked in advance on Nusuk, the official platform. Men and women have separate time slots.

Book on Nusuk