Answered by SunniPath Answer Service Team
Is prayer in congregation obligatory for men? What about the West, with mosques that are distant and unhelpful work schedules?
Please see the following links:
Praying in Congregation, Praying at the Mosque
Praying in Congregation in the West
Congregational Prayer: A long question
Who should lead congregational prayer?
The Second Congregation
Also see the following links regarding women and the congregational prayer:
Praying in congregation with one’s wife? Useful for those who can’t make to the mosque sometimes…
Praying at home with wife, is that considered a jamah?
Women’s Congregational Prayer in the Hanafi School
Questions on Women’s Prayer: Women’s Congregational Prayer, Raising the Voice When Alone, Giving Adhan and Iqama
A Hanafi Woman Pray in a Women’s Only Congregation?
Women’s Prayers, Congregation, Books