place

Masjid-e-Bilal (Bilal Mosque)

All pages needing cleanupMosques in KarnatakaReligious buildings and structures in BangaloreUse Indian English from July 2018Vague or ambiguous time from January 2017
Wikipedia pages needing cleanup from January 2017
Masjid e Bilal BTM
Masjid e Bilal BTM

Masjid-e-Bilal (Bilal Mosque) is one of the largest mosques of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It was inaugurated in mid-2015. The Turkish-style 'Masjid Eidgah Bilal' on Bannerghatta road was consecrated on 11 June. The mosque sits on the corner of a traffic intersection on a popular thoroughfare of southern part of the city. Prestige Group developers undertook the construction which began in 2010 and was completed recently. At that time Janab Alhaj Habeeb Khan Saheb was president of this committee from 2004 to 2015. The mosque constructed at a cost of Rs. 200,000,000 provides space for 6,500 people to pray at a time. A considerable portion of the cost was contributed by the Prestige Group. The four story mosque was constructed on a portion of the 1.45-acre Bilal Eidgah. The land was purchased in 1990 for the purpose of Eid congregation ground at a price of ₹ 10,000,000 from the Bangalore Development Authority. Local MLA and Ex transport Minister and Ex Home Minister of Karnataka Ramalinga Reddy helped the community to acquire the place.Present president Alhaj Ashraf Saheb and secretary Alhaj Faiyaz Saheb told the Islamic Voice that the mosque occupies nearly 42,000 sq. ft. area. The Eidgah ground provides parking space for nearly 500 vehicles. Hazrath Maulana Mohammed Shakirulla Saheb is the imam and Khatib of the mosque. The consecration ceremony had Maulana Qasim Qureshi as the chief guest.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Masjid-e-Bilal (Bilal Mosque) (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Masjid-e-Bilal (Bilal Mosque)
Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru Jayanagar East Ward (South Zone)

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Masjid-e-Bilal (Bilal Mosque)Continue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 12.920778 ° E 77.599592 °
placeShow on map

Address

Masjid-e-Eidgah-e-Bilal

Bannerghatta Road
560076 Bengaluru, Jayanagar East Ward (South Zone)
Karnataka, India
mapOpen on Google Maps

Masjid e Bilal BTM
Masjid e Bilal BTM
Share experience

Nearby Places

Christ School, Bangalore

Christ School in Bangalore, India is an educational institution run by the Catholic Minority Community with all the rights and privileges granted by the Constitution of India and recognized but un-aided by the Department of Education of Karnataka State. It is run by the fathers of the Congregation of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) in the Catholic Church through a Registered Body - "Christian Educational Society of Bangalore". The school, with a roll of 3267, is reputed to be one of the largest schools in India. It is associated with Christ University, another CMI institution in Bangalore. The school attracts some of the best faculty given the rich academic and co-curricular environment that prevails in the institution. The school imparts education to students from Kindergarten to Std X in English medium, across the ICSE, CBSE and the State Boards. It is open to all irrespective of religion, caste or community. In honor of the founding father of the CMIs who run the school, the school has a week-long celebration called The Chavara Cultural Festival and Inter School Tournament, to which all the schools in the city are invited. The school conducts flagship events such as the Annual Science Exhibition and provides state-of-the-art facilities in their laboratories (including their Robotics lab). In addition, the students of Christ School regularly participate in multiple Olympiad contests, both at the State and at the National level. Moral and religious instructions are also part and parcel of the curriculum. There is an Ecumenical Prayer Room for the children of all religions to meet and pray. Once in a month there is general prayer service for all non-Catholics (who form the majority) and a Catholic mass for the others. The school owns a fleet of buses for transporting students from different parts of Bangalore.