Jamida K, popularly known as ‘Jamida Teacher’, led a group of 50 odd men and women to the Friday prayers on January 26 at Wandoor Cherukod in Malappuram district of Kerala, she was demolishing a male bastion as well as setting a record as the first woman to lead jumma prayers in the country.
Born in Konni in Pathanamthitta as the youngest among 13 children of Shahul Hameed, a former soldier, Jamida graduated in Arabi and is the general secretary of the Quran Sunnath Society.