Create Your Own Amazing Home Prayer Space

Author: Shawn Mike

The pandemic has been quite hard on everyone because we were all forced to adapt to a new routine, and it can be extremely exhausting. To avoid any huge social gatherings, people are spending their time in quarantine, and this can be hard for people used to going to the mosque every single day. A change of this level in your daily lives can make you depressed.

One way to deal with being isolated from your loved ones and your fellow religious communities, you can create a prayer space in your home for yourself. It might not be the same as spending quality time at a mosque, but it can make you more relaxed.

You can have any space in the house, all to yourself. Having your little haven to spend time with God can help you feel more connected and less alone amidst these trying times. Here’s a guide on how to get started with your little prayer space:

1. Pick a Quiet Corner

The first and most important step to creating your sanctuary in your home is by picking out the perfect corner to turn it into your prayer space. You need to find a quiet and inviting spot in your house, so you immediately feel relaxed whenever you take a look at it.

The right spot will help you put everything together and get you started. You will need a quiet and serene place so you can spend your time offering prayers, meditating, and reading the Holy Quran without any external disturbances and noise.

You will have to make sure that the corner has enough space for you to put a chair, table, and cushions, etc., to it. It has to be comfortable enough for you to spend all the time you want. Thus, make sure there is enough room for you to add all the things you want to it.

Picking out a corner near a window can be good because you will be getting natural sunlight that will lift your mood. Natural light is also good if you pray daily or want to do any spiritual reading.

However, the corner should be away from the rest of your home, so there’s no noise when you’re praying, and you can feel at peace.

2. Collect Your Religious Items

After choosing the right spot, it’s time to add any religious items to your prayer space. It’s essential to add prayer mats, religious books, the Holy Book, and Tasbih. You will need to avoid indulging in any other activities when you are in your prayer space, so it can only be used in times of utter solitude.

Praying is one of the most personal and holy times of the day, and the way you treat your prayer space reflects on your faith. Your home prayer space should be beautiful because praying is the time when you worship and have a conversation with your Creator.

Most of us already own several religious items, so you can put them all together and have a designated space for the time you spend kneeling before God.

3. Add a Piece to Make It Yours

As mentioned earlier, prayer is a personal and holy part of everyone’s life, and if you want to connect with your Creator, you need to make sure the prayer space is all yours. This means there should be no distractions from your outside environment so you can have a holy ambiance in the corner of your house.

When people build mosques, they keep in mind the people who are going to be utilizing that space and praying there, so do the same when you pick out your prayer space. You need to have a corner of the house that brings peace in your life and calms you down. Take all the things that resonate with you and add a personal touch to your corner because it’s between you and God only.

You can add an important personal piece to your space, like a canvas of calligraphy or verses written on a frame. This will make your space beautiful and captivating at the same time.

4. Accessorize

Accessorizing is important if you want your prayer space to be as comfortable as possible. Add furniture to it if you want, and some of us can’t stand for long during prayer times, so you can put a chair or a cushion for you to quietly sit on and continue praying.

You don’t have to indulge in anything fancy or expensive, because you just need something that makes you more relaxed. After kneeling for an amount of time, your knees might start aching, so you can add some pillows to the space to avoid this from happening. You can also add some candles to create a sacred and blissful space for you to pray.

5. Put It All Together

After choosing the perfect spot, adding blessed items, furniture, flowers, and candles, the next step is to see how it all looks from a different perspective. Do you walk around the house and take a look at your prayer space, and it reminds you it’s time to pray? It’s important to put it all together and spend some time every day in your prayer space.

You put a lot of time and effort into turning a simple corner of your house into your safe space, so you have to start using it and form a habit. You also need to clean it regularly because it’s important to respect any prayer place.

Takeaway- Making Your Own Relaxing and Quiet Prayer Space

This guide can be useful for anyone looking to turn a corner of their house into a prayer space or change your existing one. The place is supposed to be special and quiet because you’ll be spending your time praying to God, and nothing else should come between that.

You can personalize it any way you want because we all have our ways of meditating and praying, so whatever makes your feel closer to God! Your designated space will always be there for you at any time.