Mahallah

View of Sarshahar Mahallah in Ordubad, Azerbaijan

A mahallah', mahalla, mahallya, or mohalla, mëhallë (Arabic: محلة‎‎, maḥalla, Bengali: মহল্লা, mahallā, Hindi: मोहल्ला mōhallā, Persian: محله‎‎ maḥalla, Urdu: محله‎, Azerbaijani: Məhəllə), Albanian: mëhallë) is a country subdivision or neighbourhood in parts of the Arab world, Balkans, Western and South Asia and nearby Nations.

• El Mahalla El Kubra (Egypt)
• Mahalla (Bangladesh)
• Mahalla (Uzbekistan)
• Mahalle (Turkey)
• Mahala (Podgorica)

Notable Mahallahs

• Mohalla Sadiqabad, Pakistan
• Shahi Mohalla, Pakistan

Russia and former Soviet Union

A mahalla is an Islamic congregation or parish in Russia and a number of countries once part of the Soviet Union. Typically, a mahalla supports a single mosque. An imam is seen as the spiritual head of a mahalla. A mahalla is directly subordinate to a muhtasib and a territorial muhtasibat.

See also

• Mahallah Bagh (disambiguation)