Readers complain about overcrowding in mosques during Friday prayers..

Muslims request the authorities to build more mosques near the residential areas.

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00:00Currently, the UAE has 5,036 mosques across its seven emirates, but with a myriad of expatriates

00:19coming to the UAE every day, the Muslim population in the country is growing rapidly and the

00:24current number of mosques is struggling to accommodate all the worshippers.

00:54The residents are very full and the Muslim population is also very full here in Satwa.

01:02For every Muslim, it is obligatory five prayers.

01:05I think the mosque should be built more in those areas which we don't have mosques.

01:11A thousand people may come inside the mosque for prayer, a very big space inside the mosque.

01:17And outside also maybe a thousand people will come.

01:19Outside, Godzilla prayer complete full, full complete after outside coming.

01:25My opinion is that he will make more mosques for the prayer, every location.

01:29I request to the authority also to build the mosque where the population is more,

01:36and people won't go for the walking distance for the prayer and everything.

01:42It is clear that there is a huge demand for more mosques to be built within close proximity

01:48to residential areas for the convenience of the public.

01:52The good news for the Muslim community is that the UAE is aiming to build 215 new mosques

01:58by 2015, bringing the total to 5,251 to serve the growing population in the country.

02:06Manuel Almario for Gulf News.

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