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JERUSALEM, April 17 — Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus epidemic, Muslim clerics at Islam's third-holiest site said yesterday. Ramadan typically draws tens of thousands of Muslims daily to...

Israeli security forces escort visitors to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem June 2, 2019. — AFP pic

The decision to ban Muslim prayer at the 35-acre complex, revered by Jews as the Temple Mount and site of the Jewish temples of antiquity, extends a March 23 ban on Muslim prayer there. Jerusalem has sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and all three religions have taken coronavirus precautions.

 

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