Unexpected Friday Prayer Photowalk in Deira City Center

Friday is still the day for the most important prayer of the week in the UAE, even though now it is a working day (or half-working day for some). Before the prayer was at the designated time of the sun being its’ highest in the sky, so somewhere after 12 pm, but now there is a set time for prayer which is 1-15 pm. They do the call for prayer twice – once at the sun-related time, and second time is when everyone should be there for the start of the prayer. It’s probably a bit more complicated for people now if they can’t leave their work place for some reason and get to the mosque on time, but throughout my years living here I have always seen people running to the mosque even for the last moments of prayer for a spiritual touch-down, so to say…

I wanted to go to the “historical neighbourhood” but today the weather was looking rather gloomy and gray, so I decided to go somewhere else. I just went to the metro and decided to get out on somewhere, where I don’t usually go… so when someone let out a massive fart in the metro, I decided it is time to leave and got out on the Deira City Center Station. All the photos apart from the one below are captured on Ricoh GRiiix.