What Do Prayer Rugs Look Like

But if one does does it need to look the part.

What do prayer rugs look like.

For those unfamiliar with the use of these rugs they may look like small oriental carpets or simply nice pieces of embroidery. A prayer rug or prayer mat is a piece of fabric sometimes a pile carpet used by muslims and some christians during prayer. This can be attributed to solid colors or geometric floral and arabesque patterns. Prayer rugs are characterized by the prayer niche or mihrab an arch shaped design at one end of the carpet.

As i understand it is not necessary to even use one. The mihrab which probably. Most rugs have an islamic landmark embedded upon them. Prayer rug one of the major types of rug produced in central and western asia used by muslims primarily to cover the bare ground or floor while they pray.

In islam it placed between the ground and the worshipper for cleanliness during the various positions of islamic prayer these involve prostration and sitting on the ground a muslim must perform wudu ablution before prayer and must pray in a clean place. On first look it s hard to distinguish an oriental rug from a prayer rug. Use of prayer rugs during islamic prayers worshippers bow kneel and prostrate on the ground in humility before god. Alternatively they may simply approximate the shape of such an arched door or the arch may become gable like or stepped like this decorative geometric turkish milas prayer rug.

Some mihrabs on payer rugs look overtly architectural like this silk tabriz prayer rug with a pointed arch supported by columns to either side.