What Do Prayer Rugs Look Like

I m thinking of getting a rug so i can pray in the office but something that doesn t look like a prayer rug.

What do prayer rugs look like.

Prayer rugs are characterized by the prayer niche or mihrab an arch shaped design at one end of the carpet. For those unfamiliar with the use of these rugs they may look like small oriental carpets or simply nice pieces of embroidery. Or would anything comfortable and clean and not un islamic be just as suitable. 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.

Should a prayer rug look islamic. The mihrab which probably. A prayer rug or prayer mat is a piece of fabric sometimes a pile carpet used by muslims and some christians during prayer. Use of prayer rugs during islamic prayers worshippers bow kneel and prostrate on the ground in humility before god.

As i understand it is not necessary to even use one. 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. Some mihrabs on payer rugs look overtly architectural like this silk tabriz prayer rug with a pointed arch supported by columns to either side.

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.