This is the adorable moment a friendly cat lay down and stretched out on a man's prayer mat in the middle of a mosque.

As a worshipper was getting prepared in the Masjid Annur USJ 4 mosque in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, on February 14, he wasn't aware of an unlikely friend wandering toward him.

Cute footage shows a black and white cat strolling across the mosque floor before sitting down on the man's prayer mat.

The cheeky feline even looked up at the man as he continued his rituals, before stretching out its four paws and lying down.

Unperturbed by the cat's presence, the worshipper kneeled down on the mat and continued praying all while the moggy sprawled out even wider.

Finally, once he had finished praying, the man played with the cat before carefully lifting it off his mat and rolling it up again.

The footage has been viewed more than 2.7 million times since being uploaded to social media by the mosque's caretaker Mohd Hashim.

Hashim, 61, said: "It made me very happy to see the cat joining the man.

"It has been wandering around the mosque for the past six months now. We have named it Miss Auw.

"The worshipping man was very patient with the cat and didn't move it at all. He continued to play with the cat when he was finished."

This is the adorable moment a friendly cat lay down and stretched out on a man's prayer mat in the middle of a mosque.

As a worshipper was getting prepared in the Masjid An Nur USJ 4 mosque in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, on February 14, he wasn't aware of an unlikely friend wandering towards him.

Cute footage shows a black and white cat strolling across the mosque floor before sitting down on the man's prayer mat.

The cheeky feline even looked up at the man as he continued his rituals, before stretching out its four paws and lying down.

Unperturbed by the cat's presence, the worshipper kneeled down on the mat and continued praying all while the moggy sprawled out even wider.

Finally once he had finished praying, the man played with the cat before carefully lifting it off his mat before rolling it up again.

The footage has been viewed more than 2.7million times since being uploaded to social media by the mosque's caretaker Mohd Hashim.

Mohd, 61, said: "It made me very happy to see the cat joining the man.

"It has been wandering around the mosque for the past six months now. We have named it Miss Auw.

"The worshipping man was very patient with the cat and didn't move it at all. He continued to play with the cat when he was finished."