• A Muslim place of worship.

  清真寺

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  • After the classical period the temple was converted first to a church and then a mosque.
  • There are new mosques, Islamic schools and Quranic centres from Brisbane to Perth.
  • Mosques are full to overflowing and new mosques are being built to meet the demand.
  • The surrounding area is full of mosques and its residents number many devout Muslims.
  • The town has a small Middle-Eastern community, but no mosques or an Islamic centre.
  • Yusef called the faithful to prayer five times a day as the muezzin of the mosque.
  • Schools, churches, mosques, offices and ordinary homes are crammed with refugees.
  • One day the priest asked Mohammed if he might accompany him to the mosque to see what it was like there.
  • In different cities racist thugs have attacked mosques and Islamic schools.
  • This is the view of most of the imams preaching in the mosques in the West.
  • One of the best shots in the film is of a church spire which pans up to reveal the minaret of the mosque just behind.
  • Religion was being increasingly confined to the mosques and Islamic university.
  • Just as Zacarias was reciting verses of the Koran in French, the imam walked into the mosque.
  • There is no suggestion that the mosque's imams are preaching anything other than peace.
  • In early January he was seen praying at the city's new mosque during the Muslim festival of Eid.
  • From the top, we can see mosques, churches and synagogues and graveyard after graveyard.
  • The Imams in our mosques give sermons on so many issues, but never touch upon this topic of dowry.
  • Mohammed went to the mosque with an older cousin, probably out of curiosity.
  • Everywhere I go in Beirut, churches and mosques are being built, often alongside each other.
  • The Cathedrals do bear a remarkable resemblance to the mosques of Islam.

Mosques consist of an area reserved for communal prayers, frequently in a domed building with a minaret, and with a niche (mihrab) or other structure indicating the direction of Mecca. There may also be a platform for preaching (minbar), and an adjacent courtyard in which water is provided for the obligatory ablutions before prayer