Onyx in Sand Brown – £4
Food, family, health, prayers, laughter and togetherness….what more can you ask for this Eid! Millions of Muslims are about to celebrate Eid as they take part in the “festival of the sacrifice”. What does Eid Mubarak mean? Eid Mubarak is a traditional Muslim greeting reserved for the holy festivals of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. […]
The day of Arafat is the holiest day in the Islamic calendar. It falls on the 9th day of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah in the lunar Islamic calendar. It coincides with the second day of the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and is on the the day before the beginning of Eid ul-Adha, a […]
According to legend, Lahore was once named Lavapura, after a mythological Hindu figure from the Ramayana. A vacant temple dedicated to this figure is contained inside the Lahrore Fort. Prior to the partition in India in 1947, a third of Lahore’s population was Hindu and Sikh. Lahore’s Hindus used to reside in ‘distinct enclaves’. The city’s Hindu […]
1. Petronas Towers Standing 452 metres tall, the Petronas Twin Towers retained its world-title claim to fame until 2004 when Taipei’s 101 was built, measuring 508 metres tall. Today, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (opened in 2010) retains the spot as the world’s tallest building. Located in the KL city centre, the Petronas Twin Towers’ architecture is Islamic-inspired and […]
