Masjid Al-Jumuah

This guide to Masjid Al-Jumuah in Medina opens by correcting a common claim: the very first Friday prayer was actually held a year earlier, in secret, inside a private home. What happened here, in the valley called Wadi Ranuna on a Friday morning in the year six hundred twenty-two, was different. It follows Muhammad's journey from Mecca, his four days resting at Quba, and the moment the Banu Salim clan asked him to stop and pray with them as he rode on toward the heart of Medina. Stand where the crowd once gathered around him, on ground that had no mosque yet at all.