Srinagar, March 14 -- Authorities did not allow prayers at the city's grand mosque Jamia Masjid after administration today-on last Friday of Ramadan -denied permission for big gathering.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that city's Grand Mosque Jamia Masjid was again locked by the administration.

"On the last Friday of holy Ramzan, when tens of thousands gather from towns and villages for prayers and supplication at the historic Jama Masjid Srinagar, its gates have once again been locked from all sides," Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said in a post on X.

He said it was the seventh consecutive year, "the rulers have denied permission to Muslims to pray here".

"As Israel has forcibly shut the gates of Masjid al-Aqsa during Ramzan, similar painful reality...