Beautifully woven colorful rugs are not an unfamiliar Islamic icon. They are used by thousand of Muslims across the globe. People are seen in airports, mosques, houses, restaurants, malls, and many more places kneeling and bowing to Allah whilst offering their prayers on the well known prayer mat or Sujaadah. Due to the importance of prayer mats in Islam, prayer mats are still highly respected. It is not just a tidy place to worship for, as well as a hope of heaven and peace in sought in the prayer prayed upon it.

The style and colors rely on the creators, their background, and their cultural patterns, although all are often reflected on the prayer mat, most prayer mats have main feature of a Mihrab from a mosque,. The mihrab is the place in the mosque where the imam prays and faces the Qiblah, the Kaabah in Makkah, which is the direction Muslims all around the globe face when they pray. Check out the beautiful 3D mihrab prayer mat available at Thehujjajstore here.

If we trace the history, prayer mats look like oriental mats or even Persian. Most of them are made up of silk and cotton and have Islamic patterns, geometric, floral, arabesque, and colorful. Wool is also sometimes used to produce prayer mats. Some prayer mats replicate the prayer mats of the Haramain in Makkah and Madinah.