STUDY 0OF MUSLIM SETTLEMENT

PONNANI I5A
INPONNAN
MUNICI PALITY IN PONNANI TALUK. MALAPPURAM
DSTALGT INTHE STAIE OF HERALA MAIN MUSLIM SETLED AONM THE (01AA ARFA Or hERALA
ESPECIALLY HIRALA OAT AIME PONNANI ALMOST 64. HE CURRENT POPULATION hWHiCH
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MUSLIM tOMMUNITY AND ONCK NOWN AS THE LITTILE MAHHA AND JAMI AL AZAR OF
THE TOWN HA AAUE NUMBER MOU6qIES AIMO61 50,
MALAbA
SoME OF THEM ARE MORE THAN FINE
PONNANI. WAS THE VENUE tORA NOTABLE ASS EMBLY
CENTORIE 0F
OF PROF ES1ONA\S ANO lELL kEARNED PEOPLE
FROM THE ELD 0F ART AND iEAIMION AIME

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LOCATION
MALAPpuRAM 164AICT

PONN ANI IN PONNANI TALUK MERAhA .

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BoUNDED BV TAE ARABIAN SEA 0N THE HEST AND A SEAIE OF BACK15H LAMOONs IN THE
SouTH
PONNANI MUNIIPALITY

LEUENDS
wqTER B0DIES

DEMOGRAPHICS ROADS

MT HouSE
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0441 PopulAtiON
AROUND 66.31. 0F 1E POPALATON ARE MUiUMS
AREA NEAR HAR OUR AND YALyA PANi

HISTORY PONNANI, TH INFLUENCE OF ISLAM BEUAN FHOM A hONM TIME AU0 , WHeN

THE ARNG5 BEuAN TO tOME HERE. MALIK 1BN DINA HHo HAS THE FIRST 1SAA MIC M1SBIONARV
T0 heRAAA1 BEAIEVEÐ 10 HRVE VIS1TE D PONNANI.
TH1S T0NIN WAs THE ONE OF THE IMpOATANT CENTER bURINU THE RULE OE
THE ZAMORINS OF
CAHI UuT TE PLACE 14 BOF DERED BY RIVER ON THE NORTHEN 61DE lbhtKATERS
IN THE SouTHERN AND THE SEA ON THE NEST MAMINW IT A AKOBAINENT (06TAL TOWN INCE 1T45

IN CEPmON THERE 14 MANY NARKATINES AtCoRDINu THE PhACE MOT IT NAME. ONE Wa4, THE
NAME WM MNEN BY ARAB TRADE Mo EXCHANUNED hoko oIN5 FO The uooDs IN MAAVAMM
OAD COIN MNOM A PON-NANAYM, THAT MAS TtE NAME 0T I A5 PONN ANI.
 MUSLIMSETTLEMENT NEAR - PONNANI
JUMA MASJID
N AHEA I FAMOUS BY THE PONNANI
JUMA

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OF THE 151AMIC CONVERS1ON
MASJID AlSO THE MAIN
IN
CENTER MAUNA THUL 15ALAMIC 5AgiuA SITUATED
1. VALIYA JUMA MAs TID THI4 AREA
2 MAUNATHUL 15LAN
A650CIATION
LOCATION
PONAIANI, MALAppuRAM DISTRICT
4 MI-u-P. M60E SouTHERN SIDE OF JUNA
SCHOL
M51ID AIND THE M RoAD PAS5 THROU LAH

iH14 AREA
HIS TORY IN ROADD
THIS AREA ESTAHI15HED DURINW THE LONSTRUCTION OF THE ONNANI JUMA MASTID
11 NAS BY ZAINU DHUDIN MAKHDOOM, A MULIM PIAITUAL LFADERS IN THE YEAR IID 11 1 AN

IMPOR TANT PIL4 RIM CENTKE AND HUg FOR 161AMIC (ULTURE AND PDUCAT1ON

BUILDINGERESIDENCEJ CHARACTEKS
THIS VILLAUE leHE E&TARELISHED MORE 1HAN FOD YEPA AuO. THE HouSE
IN 7H AfEA HEFLECT ME TIME PERIOD

MoHT OF THE Hous& HE AE SEEN CON5TAUCTED YEARS AuD

ARE lONSTRUCTED SDE BY SIDE 5DME DF TIE HOU6E HAVE ONLY 10OM o
THE HOUE
LESS hAP BETEEN THAT 5DME TME HOUSE% HERE COnNGTRU6TEP 200 YEARS Auo
THEKE AERT DMANY MEMBEAS INA HouGE TAT
IN OlnER DAV
WHy THE MOUSEh AME BIM AND hAKME INTERIOR AREA6

COMMON CHARACTERh M HousES

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MAIN FNTKANCE HOUSE
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THE INTERIOR SPACES
WIDTH 1 ALMOST NEAR T0 9M K NORE

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MAUNATHUL 6LAM Assocl ATION
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1 VALIYA JUMA MASTID
ONE OF THE OLDEST MOAQME IN KWEKALA, PONINANI JUMA MAAJID
ANDVIN A THE ME CCA OF KERALA
THE MOSQUE HA PAA MED AN IMpoR TANT
PART IN INPARNNU HAMIC DoCTRINE AND
PHILOOPHY oVER TME YEAR 11 14A HLAMIC
EDuCA TION CRNTEM TDR MuSIM OMMUNITV IN AMERAKA
l6TORY
Alho NOIN Ah MAKHDHUM MObquE WA BILT IN 1H10 lboo yEARS
Ano) y ZAINUDDIN MAKHDUM A MusIM PIRTUAL EADER

HE 6TuDIED FOM NECCA UNIYERhITy AND COME BAUK T0 MERAKA, MAA-

-PPURLAM AND HE lAh THINK AGDuT toNhTRU C1 A 16AMIC StuDy
CRNTEW IN PONNANI AND LONATRUC1 1HC MDquEn SAID t0 HAVE
BFEN BUIAT BV A HID Hu CARPENTER AND Wlhd hATE R CoNVERTED
T0 14LAM AND NAMED AAHARI THANUAL
LONHTR MCT ED IN A TKADI TON AL TEMPE AKCHITECtURE STyAE OF HERAKA WlTH ONLy OND
hINULE hlooD 1 h A FINE S1ORY BauuDINM
A 6INhKE TEAM, BAICH, MANVLDUR TILEh ARE THe NATEPAIAK4 AED FOK (ONGTHUCTION
ARABIC CALAIUR APHV hloRK ON THE WoOD

FESTIVAL ANNUAL FE61VAL, ANDu NERCHA 15 puaINM

THE MONTH OF MARCH 1APRIL TuAT BE FORE
THE MDNSbON STARTS, AND A5T6 oH TouR DAVS
1 14 THE MAJOR FE67/NAL OF RENOoWED PONNANI
TuNA MAAID

MALL WINDOnis

0MESIDE VIEW OF MA$TUD (AS l )

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A 1T AS THE ONE 0F THE FAMILY WlMOE4 MELP

HE tONh1RUCON OF VAAIYA JUNA MA6JID AND

THl HouE nlEKt ON61RUCTED FOOYEAR AMo
AND I1 MOT AENOVATED 200 yEMR AUO MEaOU I nOT FIRED
ONLY 5 MEMBERS

UN THAAE DAV6 ALMO 6T %00 MEMgEKS vUERE HVED IN TM14 HDUhE, BUT NoW

ANOTHEK HOuE , THAT (ONNGTRU(1ED A00 YEAR

AMO tOLOURED
h A HOME OF THAMAL TAMILV nhA
NINW

TH TH HOU HITNSEp THE MEFINU OF

VETTAN - POKHRIYAMAMJ AOUT HO0 XpKM MORAM REBEL NIH IMBICHlkOYA THAuRAL THN THE
a, DCILN THE 1IME OF MALABAR REBELLION THE AURE EMENT KEACHED DGKIN u 1tt MEEINU ENGUKED

PEACE BETWEE N HINDU AND MULIM DaRINM THE ERIOD OF THE KEBEIION.

MAINATHUL 16LAM Ab50 UATION

rNAb 14, A 4AMIC ONVERb1ON CEN TEK IN MAA PPURAM

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