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My translator suddenly dashed out of the mosque, told me to grab my bag and, seconds later, we were roaring off in a car.

He said the decision was part of an agreement to move the proposed mosque in New York.

Hindus had long claimed that the mosque had been built over the birthplace of a Hindu god, Ram, and a Hindu temple later dedicated to him.

A short time later we were taken to a third bomb site. Officials told us that this site contained both a school and a mosque.

They then used the mosque's loud speaker system, normally used to call people to prayer, to broadcast their chants across the city.

At the next Friday sermon, the women who were sitting in the side room of the mosque began to share their distress at the state of affairs.

Harry Reid, the party's leader in the Senate, faces a difficult election fight in Nevada: he said the mosque should go somewhere else.

The US military has said it had no involvement in the explosion which destroyed a building in a mosque courtyard.

On the feast of the New Moon the young Emperor came forth from his palace and went into the mosque to pray.

Witnesses said protesters were gunned down in the streets, and that the Omari mosque was stormed in the early morning.

But as he spoke, his voice was drowned out by the muezzin's call to prayer - we were next to a mosque, and he scurried off.

But it was a muted statement, tempered a day later by an insistence that he was taking no position on the wisdom of the Manhattan mosque.

Mohammed Elhassan, walking home from his local mosque in the Nile city of Wadi Halfa, took out his mobile phone and snapped a few photos.

He was one of the men found in the mosque, she said, along with two of his cousins.

As a boy, he had prayed in a fine sandstone mosque, the Babri Masjid, which had stood on the site since the 16th century.

The explosions took place in quick succession near a crowded market and a mosque in the south of the city.

Officials in Tennessee say they think the fire that destroyed this local mosque may be the result of a hate crime.

The mosque began to encourage and participate in interfaith dialogues, reaching out to the local Christian and Jewish communities.

He said he'd seen several bodies and many wounded people at a makeshift hospital at a mosque.

Almost no one questions the legal right to build the mosque, so if that's all he wanted to say, there was no need for Obama to speak out.

He went to the Mosque to try to convince her to leave.

Although I don't know where the Bab Berdieyinne Mosque might be in that photo, I'm sure it's one of those pictured.

He made the comments at Jordan's biggest mosque in a speech aimed at improving relations between Roman Catholicism and the Islamic world.

In April the moderate leader of a fundamentalist Wahhabi organisation, al-Hadith, was blown up as he arrived at a mosque in Srinagar.

The mosque has its own chef that prepared the food, may Allah reward him for his talent.

The demonstrators, some carrying anti-mosque placards, seemed to have no trouble buying water from a Muslim from Bangladesh.

"Hello, my friend, " said the shoeshine man who sat down beside me as I smoked a cigarette near Istanbul's Blue Mosque.

The attack came hours after the mosque's top cleric was arrested while trying to slip away wearing a traditional woman's burma.

But that simply invites the question of why building the mosque is so tactless.

The older Santora and his wife attended last week's community board meeting, where they expressed their opposition to the mosque.

He imagined that as in Africa he had had to sit in a mosque wearing a burnous, in Moscow he must be gracious and bountiful as the Tsars .

The mosque debate was a moment for a speech of that kind.

A spokesman for India's foreign ministry confirmed the offer, which had earlier been made directly to the mosque's chief cleric.

Perched on a plastic table on the pavement outside the Al-Fath mosque, a loudspeaker is ready to broadcast prayers to the street.

The protest started after Friday prayers when worshippers spilled out of a mosque in the centre of the neighbourhood.

An explosion at a mosque in the southern Somali city of Kismayu has killed at least one person, at least five worshipers were injured.

Your church, temple, mosque, or other place of worship also may be able to use your help.

For those who haven't heard, the mosque disaster occurred in Meknes, where I worked for a year.

A mosque located in the financial district about a mile from Wall Street did not return a call seeking comment.

Which is to say that perhaps opponents of the mosque should question the motives of those who question their motives.

British Muslims have been lining up for or against Tablighi Jamaat, the conservative missionary movement behind the mosque.

The blast took place in a Mosque near Iran's borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Sabir Rahman, past president of the mosque's board, called him "a very gentle person" who "never expressed strong words about anybody. "

But angry supporters of the mosque then began throwing stones, bottles and a firework at the police.

The proposed cultural center and mosque would be built a few blocks away from Ground Zero in New York city.

While living in London, Moussaoui attended the same Brixton mosque as shoe bomber Richard Reid.

The Russian authorities restored peace among the mountaineers and sent a message to Hadji Murad instructing him not to attend the mosque.

In New York City, things are tense over plans to build an Islamic center with a mosque a few blocks away from Ground Zero.

The mosque was polluted in the same way, and the Mullah and his assistants were cleaning it out.

UNDP chief Osman Ali Ahmed was gunned down at close range Sunday evening as he returned home from evening prayers at a mosque in Mogadishu.

At least 30 people were killed and dozens more were wounded in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in Pakistan.

The first part reviewed the origin of the early mosque in terms of etymology, history and architecture.

Women with scarves or in hijab were chatting, and the children were having fun playing ball in the playground in front of the mosque.

A bombing at a major Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, has left at least 15 people dead and dozens injured.

The sponsors of a planned mosque there were found to have begun work without seeking permission from the local authority.

During two months of violent protests in Indian-controlled Kashmir the mosque had been barred to stop crowds gathering.

A senior commander of the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab, has been shot dead at close range as he left a mosque in the city of Kismayo.

The city's name, in fact, means the "Tomb of the Exalted" and the Blue Mosque as it is known is reputed to be the burial place of Ali.

I enjoyed Beijing, particularly walking around the frozen lakes at the Summer Palace and Beihai, and admiring the Niujie Mosque.

Hours earlier, a suicide bombing in the tribal region struck a crowded mosque along one of the main roads to Afghanistan.

Another minister, Roberto Calderoli, once walked a pig over land earmarked for the building of a mosque.

According to a CNN opinion poll taken before the president's speech, 70% of Americans oppose the building of a mosque near Ground Zero.

Jingning mosque stands at the county hospital Jingning lane, was founded inming jia jing years (1536), so far, 450 years of history.

The explosion occurred in a busy area near the Rasoul mosque, police said, and a number of people were trapped under rubble.

In Bamako, the capital of the desert nation of Mali, one huge Libyan-funded mosque was built right next door to the U. S. Embassy.

It has been 3. 5 years since the bombing of the mosque triggered one of the worst displacement crises in recent times.

A newspaper had claimed that the army planned to plant bombs in a mosque and to take advantage of the ensuing chaos to engineer a coup.

Part of her mosque work is with churches, lowering barriers between Muslims and Christians.

Repeated calls for the Punjab governor to be killed were made from mosque pulpits across Pakistan, yet such hate speech goes unpunished.

Blood splattered the facade of the church, as well as a mosque directly across the street.

Earlier Wednesday, a Taliban bombing near a Shi'ite mosque in Karachi killed at least one person.

Remains of late Venetian building can be seen near the east end of the mosque.

The entrance to the pavilion is through a vaulted portal with the "Tree of Life" carving inspired by the "Siddi Syed Mosque" at Ahmedabad.

A witness told a reporter for The Associated Press that forces had blasted the minaret of a mosque where protesters were taking refuge.

Residents of the Syrian city of Deraa say the army has seized control of a mosque associated with anti-government protesters.

Non-Muslims cannot enter the mosque, but its haunting call to prayer can be heard throughout the city five times a day.

He and a group of other prisoners were taken to a nearby mosque and guarded by local elders, he says.

On the fanatical fringes, some believe that the mosque must be destroyed in order for the "third temple" to be built.

"It was on the roof of a small clinic next to the mosque, " he amusingly recalls.

Muslim worshipers fill up the streets around the mosque and draw attention while exchanging the "Assalamu Alikum" Muslim greeting.

In the courtyard of a mosque in Tripoli, government officials called a press conference to show journalists horrific footage of the dead.

Several officials are accusing the U. S. and Israel of masterminding the bloody explosions at a Shi'ite mosque.

Pakistani police say a suicide bomber has attacked a crowded Shiite Mosque and killed at least 22 people in a town south of Islamabad.

This landmark mosque was built in the 1950s and its minaret towers over the posh streets of this diplomatic neighborhood.

He had no intention of saying whether putting the mosque near the site of the Twin Towers was prudent.

The commander looking after me went into the mosque and began arguing.

As part of the Palestinian resistance, we cannot stand idly by in the face of Israeli violations against our blessed Aqsa Mosque.

l would like to say, in closing, a few things concerning the Muslim Mosque, Inc.

It broadcast video showing dozens of people inside the mosque carrying survivors out of the damaged structure to waiting ambulances.

Sieghart says the concept of reusing mosque water already has public acceptance.

Sieghart says the concept of reusing mosque water already has public acceptance.

Intricate artwork, poetry, prose, and a passage from the Koran decorate columns in the Friday mosque in Herat, Afghanistan.

Jakarta's Istiqlal Mosque, one of the largest mosques in the world, can hold more than 70, 000 worshippers at a time.

Women may also attend public worship at the mosque, where they are segregated from the men, although most frequently women pray at home.

A mosque watchdog was established, and a touring Islamic roadshow provided a platform for more liberal scholars.

Being a total stranger in that country, I found temporary lodging at a small, inexpensive inn behind the famous Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

The poll was taken prior to Obama's statements supporting construction of a mosque near the World Trade Center site.

Over half of those who say they were unaffiliated at some point in their lives have now joined a church, temple or mosque.

Last November, an inquiry into the mosque's demolition concluded that senior leaders of the party were complicit in the vandalism.

A member of the fertiliser-bomb plot foiled in 2004 told police he had been radicalised in a mosque in Luton.

He began spending time with bearded men at the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq mosque in Benghazi.

They had supposedly written "Prophet Muhammad" on the wall of a mosque toilet.

Or even when a church is torched, either by mistake of other means, the Christians will not take it kindly and attack also the mosque.

When Father was home, he commanded his sons to accompany him to the mosque.

The camp's proximity to the mosque means that the building's bathrooms are available for use by the flood victims.

In February, the extremists bombed a holy mosque in a deliberate effort to provoke reprisals that would set off a sectarian conflict.

The gunmen, described as wearing helmets and raincoats, fired on a bus near the historic Jama Masjid, a mosque in New Delhi's old city.

By January, passions had spilled onto holy turf, with around a dozen churches, one mosque and a Sikh temple attacked.

A boy holds candy in his hand as he reads the Quran in a mosque during Ramadan, in Amman, Jordan on August 22, 2009.

In 1453 Constantinople was captured by the Ottoman Turks, and the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque.

In 1453 Constantinople was captured by the Ottoman Turks, and the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque.

But new mosques or mosque expansions at other sites across the country have also fueled protests in central Tennessee, among other places.

Two bomb blasts inside India's largest mosque (the Jama Masjid) in New Delhi have wounded at least 10 people.

The Australian government warned there was a "high risk of terrorism" after the shootings outside Delhi's main mosque.

Opponents of mosque building in Europe often claim that the number of mosques is rising much faster than the number of Muslims.

Intricate blue tiles adorn the walls of a large Iranian mosque and mirror a clear sky that beckons the faithful to the sunny courtyard.

Some will tell you that you can find the divine in a church, a temple, a mosque or a pagoda.

The government said the operation has killed 103 people including Red Mosque deputy leader Maulana Abdul Rasheed Ghazi.

Near the mosque stand a newly - built theatre and a department store.

Press rights group Reporters Without Borders condemned the killing of the three, who had been reporting from the scene of the mosque attack.

If you're Canadian, Little Mosque on the Prairie might be interesting to discuss!

Some think a sense of alienation is what landed three young men who attended this mosque in court.

While the Muslim Community Center and its mosque may have been the first of their kind in Oregon, they no longer are alone.

He usually wore street clothes to the mosque, but sometimes wore an Army uniform on days when he was set to report to duty.

Judge Somers's three-year ban remains in effect, unless mosque leaders petition the court to reconsider that decision.

His scaremongering over the Manhattan mosque could be put down to the usual demagoguery.

Mosque as the tangible carrier of Islamic culture, have a significant impact at the material and spiritual life of Muslims.

Men under 50 in Baba Amr, an area where houses have been ransacked, said they were prevented from going to the mosque.

A nearby mosque was damaged and eight Muslims were among the wounded, the interior ministry said.

The mosque is in Rawalpindi that's close to Pakistan's Army headquarters and it's frequented by military officials.

The Grand Mosque of Rome, the largest mosque in Europe, was the first mosque I ever set foot in.

IN THE back room of a Somali mosque, a conservative Muslim cleric explains the finer points of a religious state.

With a new identity, the mosque in Portland took on a new role and became more active in the broader community.

In recent months, plans to construct a mosque near the former site of the World Trade Center have attracted public controversy.

Jamaludin, a 45-year-old farmer, had been praying in the mosque when he heard the sound of a tractor.

The mosque is in Rawalpindi that's close to Pakistan's Amy headquarters and it's frequented by military officials.

However, if you could find a mosque, you will be able to find some Muslim Halal food stalls and small restaurants nearby.

The succeeding Kings of Bukhara took care of his school and mosque, expanding them and increasing their religious endowments (away).

In Iraq, al Qaeda and other Sunni extremists blew up one of the most sacred places in Shia Islam -- the Golden Mosque of Samarra.

Eight people are dead after the collapse of a mosque under construction in northwest China early today (Friday).

In the 15th century Athens was captured by the Ottomans , and the temple was turned into a mosque.

Some of the oldest existing relics in Beijing including the Niujie Mosque and the Tianning Temple date to the Liao era.

It's believed the fighting was sparked off following a scuffle at a mosque in a Christian neighbourhood in Jos.

Government forces fired on at least one mosque.

Engraved tombstones of the Lusignan period were used to re-floor the mosque.

I joined them in their Muslim meetings. I joined them with fasting and I even entered the mosque.

A boat, washed ashore by the giant waves, exploded and caused a fire, burning down 45 homes and part of a mosque.

And in this instance, the constitution comes down squarely on the side of the mosque-builders.

June 8th 632 A. D. , Mohamed in Medina to simplicity ( died), and was buried in the cemetery of the Great Mosque of Medina.

Established in collaboration with the French government and the Paris mosque, the program began in January with a largely male class of 25.

Sic. Next day, there were still many Muslims left who had taken refuge on the roof of the mosque.

The Muslim Community Center and its mosque have come a long way from the days of separatism.

After controlling the mosque, the students refused to be led in Friday prayers by a government-appointed imam.

If possible, find a way into the neglected Murad II mosque, with its unique, Chinese-inspired tiles.

When they reached the main road outside the mosque they heard a shout, but they could not understand what was being shouted.

Last Friday, Christian residents say, the preacher at a nearby mosque issued a fiery sermon inciting violence against them.

Though the Saudis can influence through money and mosque-building, their model cannot be replicated outside the Gulf.

In the Great Mosque in Sana'a's ancient city, a guard, whispering as pious men pore over Korans, points out Jewish carvings.

The entrance on the first floor, molded on the Muslin mosque, signifies the important role of Islam as the national religion of Malaysia.

The supremely elegant Sultanahmet Mosque is the only Mosque with six minarets in the world.

Hazrat Ali: They first call us to the mosque and preach to us. Then they take us to a madrassa and teach us things from the Koran.

Scores of Shiite Muslims have rioted at central Pakistan, a day after a suspected suicide bombing killed worshipers near a Shiite mosque.

The new mosque, in particular, looks like it has been built out of Lego.

Palestinian woman reads the Koran on the first Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin.

Islamic mosque education has undergone a series of reforms to overcome its own drawbacks and to meet the needs of social development.

To smoke in a church or mosque would be a profane act.

Crowds gather at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, or Western Wall, sacred to Jews. The Dome of the Rock, an Islamic mosque, gleams beyond.

To cap it all, religious Jews recently torched a mosque in Tuba, a Bedouin town in the north of the West Bank.

A mosque across the street and a school next door were not damaged.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has offered to pay to repair India's largest mosque, Delhi's historic Jama Masjid ( Grand Mosque ) .

Designed by an Andalusian architect, the mosque bears witness to the exchange between the Sudan and the Mediterranean regions.

At the village, the Taliban spokesman had arranged interviews with Taliban foot soldiers in the tiny garden of a local mosque.

He ruled in Coptic Christians' favor when a dispute broke out about whether to build a church or mosque on a Cairo site.

A pond captures the reflection of a boy passing the Jamia mosque in the Indian city of Amritsar.

The second and third rockets hit a crowded market and a place near a mosque where people collected water.

You can show a mosque , or you can show worshippers , but there's not a straight-forward way of depicting Islam .

It has been challenged by the recently formed New York Neighbors for American Values and other pro-mosque groups.

The attack took place while the president and his supporters were at Friday prayers at the mosque inside his compound.

Apart from a new mosque, its buildings are made of mud, stone and thatch.

Other bodies had been moved to a local mosque, said the local journalist, Abu Omar, who is a resident of Fadhil.

Saudi men wearing medical masks walked past a shop near the Grand Mosque in Mecca in August during Ramadan.

A man pierced by shrapnel from a mortar strike near a mosque joins the scores of wounded who arrive almost daily at Medina Hospital.

In October a permit for a new landmark mosque was revoked, ostensibly on technical grounds.

That followed an attack on a mosque in Rawalpindi, where the army has its headquarters, in which 35 people died.

The mosque, as a Islam's culture earner from foreign country, has been undergoing the localization since it entered China.

One research group says that strong mosque-centered communities may be more effective than law enforcement in preventing radicalism.

The imam and armed supporters swore to fight to the death rather than hand over authority of the mosque to Hamas.

In a city perpetually coated with dust and goat dung, the mosque, protected by tall walls, is a clean oasis.

In many districts the mosque is the seat of the new local council, receiving alms to subsidise its activities.

The local press say the Poles stormed a mosque guns blazing, damaging the building and destroying a Qur'an.

Muslims have to pay 'mandatory' 10% of their gross income to the mosque that is how the islam is a growing religion and wealthy. . .

Lightning streaks the sky behind the Federal Territory Mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on June 24, 2009.

A discordant temple bell was ringing in the distance, and from the nearby mosque a voice was calling for evening prayers.

Three weeks earlier, protesters at the Murad Agha mosque were chanting 'rebels, rebels, Tajura awaits you. '

Police have surrounded the mosque and negotiations are taking place with the students for the release of the hostages, local officials said.

Designed by Swedish architects, the mosque will combine both the Islamic spirit and innovation of modern architecture.

This past Friday, the mosque was only a quarter full for traditional weekly prayers.

Indonesian police say 13 people are feared dead after a landslide swept over several homes and a small mosque.

If there is to be a new city church, they argue, then why not a mosque?

S. intelligence services, including air strikes, and that one mosque in which he was delivering a sermon was struck by a cruise missile.

The reputed head of John the Baptist is the holiest object in the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, venerated by Christians and Muslims alike.

The Federal Interior Ministry spokesman, Javed Iqbal Cheema, says the attack occurred when the mosque was crowded with Shiite worshipers.

Arab despots have destroyed political and institutional life, leaving their opponents little option but the mosque and the madrassa.

On the campaign trail, Bush celebrated the faith of Americans who regularly attended a "church, synagogue, or mosque. "

The needlessly extended controversy over the New York mosque is a case in point.

Indonesian security forces stand barefoot during the Obamas' visit to the mosque.

Statisticians cannot even agree on the definition of a mosque.

A mosque is a place where muslims worship Allah and also a place for muslims to do religious and social services.

Earlier, a suicide-bomber killed scores of people at a mosque near the border with Afghanistan.

He wore Middle Eastern clothes to the convenience store and his battle fatigues to the mosque.

In late August of 2003, he and at least 80 worshippers were killed by a car bomb blast as they left a mosque after Friday prayers.

A dozen bomb blasts, including one at a mosque last month that killed two worshippers, further blighted the process.

Except for this also has is situated in the lake pink aquatic mosque, appreciates the tin ore lake the lake light beauty.

The discourse power in the new era is becoming the opportunity and challenge for Mosque to assimilate the knowledge in the local area.

Crowds of Muslims flock to the Dome of the Rock mosque during Ramadan , the Islamic month of fasting.

The mosque of umar, located next to the church of the holy sepulcher, features a syrian-type minaret.

KING: I know you can't comment on cases that might come before you, and we got this whole mosque thing going on in New York.

The centrality of the mosque in a classical Islamic urban setting.

The Dome of the Rock Mosque (right) and the silver- domed Al-Aqsa Mosque (left) rise from inside the city walls.

the air traffic control tower suggests a minaret that can be found on a mosque.

To cap it all, religious Jews recently torched a mosque in Tuba, a Bedouin town in the north-east of Israel.

Nearly three million Muslims attended to pray at the Grand Mosque in Macca and the Prophet Mosque in Madinah during Ramadan.

Nine Pakistani soldiers and the radical cleric who led resistance at the mosque, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, were also killed.

The Spiral Minaret is a massive brick and clay structure adjacent to the Mosque of al-Mutawakkil in Samarra , Iraq.

Israeli strikes damaged the dome and minaret of this mosque in southern Gaza City.

Towering over and sitting between the Rest House and the Mosque is the Dome.

The report said Lee halted shooting when a neighboring mosque held a prayer session.

Women wailed to mourn loved ones killed in Thursday's twin suicide bombings at a Shi'ite mosque in Zahedan.

"Local people wouldn't have any problem with a mosque and a temple being built on the site now the verdict has come, " declares the priest.

Pamphlets insulting Islam and showing pictures of pigs heads were plastered on another mosque in the city.

Above, the minaret of the Sayyidna al-Husayn mosque looks down on the Khan al-Khalili bazaar on Feb.

Residents of Deraa say the assault on the mosque involved sustained heavy gunfire, after which the army placed gunmen on the mosque's roof.

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam . Muslims often refer to the mosque by its Arabic name masjid.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims circle the Kaaba inside and outside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The traditional mosque faces west towards Mecca, the spiritual home of the Muslims.

[Society public welfare] summer vacation does the period have to go to a mosque the Muslem student who teaches?

Even though there are good legitimate arguments on both sides of the mosque debate, these charges were pressed as soon as it went national.

Other TV shows produced in the province include Little Mosque on the Prairie, Moccasin Flats and Renegade Press.

And shouldn't we blow up the bar and replace it with a mosque?

The prescribed prayers are, however, best performed in congregation at the mosque for men.

They were ordered to gather outside near the Jamah al-Furkan mosque in the centre of town.

The sun rises over a mosque in Cairo on the first day of Eid al-Adha, November 27, 2009.

Codenamed "Operation Silence" , the storming of the mosque marks a watershed in Pakistan's approach to extremism.

Police say the bomber walked into the mosque as vehicle traffic was banned during prayer hours.

Saad said a top priority for his mosque is the youth, adding that they are building a gym and youth club.

Trouble also spread outside of Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, with protests on Monday near a mosque in Kashgar.

Before the recent atrocity, a group of Muslims residing in a major Norwegian city sought permission to build a mosque.

Above, Ugandans listen to Amin's funeral service on a mobile phone in the Old Kampala Mosque.

Many men perform i'tikaf (spiritual retreat), spending the last 10 days of the month exclusively in the mosque.

Muslims from many different countries can be spotted in the mosque.