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Islam is the religion of the majority in about 40 countries and almost every other country in the world has aminority that follows Islam [1]. Comparatively a pretty percentage of Muslims perform their religious duties on aregular basis, including the five mandatory prayers a day in the Masjid. For Muslims ablution is must before praying.This is a state for which a person is required to do certain actions in certain order, referred to as ablution process.Ablution function involves cleaning of certain parts of the body in a certain sequence with clean water. There is always aportion of the Masjid users who needs to perform ablution before offering prayers. Therefore all over the world, there isalways a need to build Masajid along with their necessities, like ablution spaces. During planning and design stage, thecapacity of a Masjid and its ablution area is generally overlooked. In some cases a fixed ratio is being followed to planthe capacity of the ablution area. This study is an attempt to prove that such fixed ratios are not applicable on all types oflocalities, In fact it vary between urban, rural, commercial, residential and industrial localities. The methodology ofplanning the ablution area capacity of a newly planned Masjid has been covered in this study by comparing case studiesof urban residential area and rural residential area.

Muhammad Irshad, “Capacity of Masjid and Ablution area”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 6, Issue 9, pp. 39-44, September 2019.