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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
As in all of New Zealand, more than 3250 Muslims that live in Canterbury (according to the 2013 census) have also started the holy month of Ramadan from Sunday, May 28, 2017. To welcome and anticipate the arrival of the holy month, the Canterbury Muslim Community Trust (CMCT), had organised a 'Welcome Ramadan' event on May 21, which was aimed at children and had fun games and crafts-making workshops, along with knowledge sharing about Ramadan. To follow it up, the trust is organising an iftar – first, of the three it intends to organise during Ramadan – on June 3, Saturday. “The format is pot luck, and CMCT invites the community to attend our multicultural family-friendly iftars again this Ramadan,” say the organisers. The Muslim Association of Canterbury which manages the Masjid al Noor in Christchurch also informed that the prayer timings for Ramadan will be as follows - Maghrib prayers at 5.30pm, Ishaa' and Tarawih at 7 p.m., and Fajr at 7 am.
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As in all of New Zealand, more than 3250 Muslims that live in Canterbury (according to the 2013 census) have also started the holy month of Ramadan from Sunday, May 28, 2017. To welcome and anticipate the arrival of the holy month, the Canterbury Muslim Community Trust (CMCT), had organised a...
As in all of New Zealand, more than 3250 Muslims that live in Canterbury (according to the 2013 census) have also started the holy month of Ramadan from Sunday, May 28, 2017. To welcome and anticipate the arrival of the holy month, the Canterbury Muslim Community Trust (CMCT), had organised a 'Welcome Ramadan' event on May 21, which was aimed at children and had fun games and crafts-making workshops, along with knowledge sharing about Ramadan. To follow it up, the trust is organising an iftar – first, of the three it intends to organise during Ramadan – on June 3, Saturday. “The format is pot luck, and CMCT invites the community to attend our multicultural family-friendly iftars again this Ramadan,” say the organisers. The Muslim Association of Canterbury which manages the Masjid al Noor in Christchurch also informed that the prayer timings for Ramadan will be as follows - Maghrib prayers at 5.30pm, Ishaa' and Tarawih at 7 p.m., and Fajr at 7 am.
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