The Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) has allowed the number of congregants performing Friday prayers and obligatory prayers at mosques and surau in the state to be increased.

Its director, Mohd Shahzihan Ahmad, said Selangor ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah had consented to the proposed increase in the number of congregants to perform Friday prayers for mosques and surau permitted to hold Friday prayers across the state.

For the state mosque...