Prayer: Can Friday prayer resume in a masjid if another was started 4km away during its closure?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Prayer: Can Friday prayer resume in a masjid if another was started 4km away during its closure?
English:
Question #621:
It was announced by the religious speaker of the Jāmi‘ Ja‘farī masjid in Rawalpindi that Friday prayer will not be offered there due to construction work. Now that the work is finished, we face a problem. At a distance of 4 kilometers a Friday prayer has been started in another masjid. Taking the distance into consideration, would it be correct to do the Friday prayers in the mentioned masjid?
Answer #621:
When the distance between the two Friday prayers is not one shar‘ī farsakh1, the secondly offered Friday prayer will be void while if both of them started at the same moment, both of them are void.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer
1
One farsakh is about 5125 m.