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MUI: If you’re praying toward the west, you’re doing it wrong

MUI: If you’re praying toward the west, you’re doing it wrong

Jakarta, NU Online The country’s highest Islamic authority is refusing to take the blame for issuing an incorrect edict in March, which stipulated that worshipers had to face westward in order to be praying toward Mecca. The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) announced on Wednesday that Mecca was actually to the northwest of Indonesia, and not to the west as it said earlier.

Rabu, 14 Juli 2010 | 23:12 WIB