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you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan.

The attacks occurred after Friday prayers concluded and appeared to target worshippers as they left the mosques.

Mosques and churches often perform the duties of a state that has all but collapsed in many parts of the country.

This comes at a time of growing radicalism in Mali and Niger, with illiterate and disillusioned citizens finding solace in mosques.

You see, the king of Saudi Arabia, also known as the Keeper of the Two Holy Mosques of Mecca and Medina, can visit the pope in the Vatican.

Authorities ordered the mosques not to hold services for any victims of the demonstrations over the past few days.

If the terms of its contract are to be believed, M. C. C. will also build schools, roads, even mosques for the Afghans.

He said mosques there were rallying residents with chants of "Allahu Akbar" or "God is great, " broadcast on loudspeakers.

As the month draws to a close, Muslims are obligated to share their blessings by feeding the poor and making contributions to mosques.

More churches and mosques have been blown up in the past few years than any time I can remember.

In response, militiamen set up heavy security around many mosques in the city, trying to prevent any opposition gatherings.

They include a pricier Fairtrade range that includes stickers of mosques around the world and a book on why Muslims should recycle.

Since the 1980s, a number of other mosques have been established, starting with one to serve Muslim university students in Portland.

In large cities, it is possible to find churches for most of the major faiths, including Moslem mosques and Hindu or Buddhist temples.

Mosques all over the city had been closed, Muslim residents said.

Clinics set up in mosques to treat those who had been wounded in earlier protests were raided.

The plan called for bombing mosques, downing Greek fighter planes and herding thousands into a stadium should they resist the army's moves.

Imams at Morocco's mosques were instructed to preach in favour of what was heralded as the king's constitution.

Today's demonstration, bolstered by millions of Egyptians streaming out of mosques after noon prayers, could be a long one.

"Mosques have become cultural forums that attract many Austrian Muslims, and a fortress against extremist ideologies, " added Ismail.

After prayers, protesters flowed out of mosques, converging into marches from several neighborhoods, heading toward Green Square.

Muslim group attacked Christians and burned churches in reprisals over the burning of two mosques, which Muslims blamed on Christians.

Mosques are being repaired and modernized, but children have not been allowed to attend services.

In our history, those gatherings often took place in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples.

One of the most influential Sunni clerics, the Sheikh of al-Azhar in Cairo, has condemned attacks on protesters taking refuge in mosques.

They were not allowed to pray in the Turkish mosques but had their own mosques away from everybody else.

Iraq's Interior Ministry says at least 27 people were killed in a series of bombings today near Shiite mosques in Baghdad.

Temples, monasteries, churches and mosques can give prosperous Chinese a motive to help provide welfare.

Once you are in meditation, you are soon going to be free from all priesthood, from all churches and synagogues, temples and mosques.

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

Islamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu, residents say.

The shadows of the mosques along the pillars: priest with a scroll rolled up.

They hung out in schools, housing projects, fast-food joints, mosques and sports halls, interviewing 100 locals.

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

istanbul is an ancient city situated by the seaside , adorned with mosques , castles , and palaces of fairy tale beauty.

This is nothing new, as in Iraq many mosques were blown up by the US and Brits for the same reason, to force the US to stay involved.

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

Two mosques and a Muslim school were burned, residents said, and many houses in the Muslim quarter were destroyed.

After the Ahmadi massacre in Punjab's capital, Lahore, neither of the Sharifs visited the mosques to pay their respects to the community.

As others bicker, it has gone about building community centres, mosques, primary and secondary schools and clinics.

Retains brilliant historical heritage, museums, churches, palaces, mosques, bazaars and beautiful natural scenery.

All other mosques in Tehran have also been forbidden from staging services in her memory.

This irresponsibility is shown when temples, mosques and churches become a power in the land.

Sarajevo has a beautiful oriental-influenced old downtown area with several mosques, restored after the war.

Churches, synagogues and mosques have historically fared reasonably well during recessions, even as other institutions struggled.

He sees nothing sinister about the mosques, madrassas and schools built, restored or run by Sunni Turks across the continent.

Sieghart is one of the people behind an innovative approach to conserve Yemen's water - reusing water from the country's mosques.

hence the round architecture of Mosques or other buildings of the Middle East.

In the city , it covers the Gothic city of the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Muslim mosques, the Indian churches and Jewish temples, Queen's Park.

One of the largest old mosques in western Yunnan stands in the middle of the old town.

"Yemen has 75, 000 mosques, which are a huge number, and that's only the mosques that are officially registered, " Sieghart says.

Since 2001, Schanzer says, many mosques have grown into multi-faceted community centers like the Islamic Center of Raleigh.

Mosques, hitherto closed between prayer times to limit public assembly, are open round the clock.

New rickshaws are covered in garish decorations, streamers, bells and paintings of mosques, lilies, actors, tigers and futuristic cities.

The Clinton parameters envisaged Palestinian sovereignty on the Haram al-Sharif, where the mosques of Omar and al-Aqsa now stand.

The Shiite council that administers mosques and shrines across Iraq has strongly objected to the restoration, for different reasons.

Its official religion is Islam , but mosques often stand next to Christian churches, as well as Hindu and Jewish temples.

Some new and planned mosques have been subjects of controversy in communities throughout Germany and other western European countries.

The minaret-making profession is common for two reasons; firstly, people are religious and mosques are an important part of their life.

People have already made arrangements for foreign travel , anticipating the satisfactions of seeing the mosques of Istanbul .

Mosques have been ringed with security men. Thugs brought in from the countryside in buses have beaten up protesters.

In many coastal towns stuck by the tsunami, people sought refuge in Buddhist and Hindu temples, mosques and churches.

Police have been deployed in force close to mosques and other potential focal points.

With its special talent for blasphemy, the Soviet regime turned many of Kazan's mosques into stables and gyms.

As a photographer there, I spent inordinate amounts of time hanging out at temples, mosques, monasteries, etc.

They were attacked in their homes, shot during demonstrations or when leaving mosques.

Legend has it Wange-Tang Zhenguan in the early years of missionary work in Guangzhou to build mosques and worship for expatriates .

Buddhist temples, mosques and Hindu temples are everywhere, featuring fine and delicate workmanship.

The minaret of one of Syria's most famous mosques has been destroyed during clashes in the northern city of Aleppo.

Israel has accused Hamas of using civilians as human shields and has said militants have fired rockets from rooftops of homes and mosques.

Women who covered their hair and men who prayed in mosques faced discrimination and sometimes violence from the security services.

He is currently building one of the biggest mosques in the world, and has a chain of conventional palaces.

Recently, attention has been focused on the construction of mosques in certain communities - particularly in New York.

Christian men attend mosques on Fridays, so as not to arouse suspicion. Bibles are kept hidden.

There's no official data on U. S. Muslims' geographic distribution, but mosques are concentrated in metropolitan areas.

So far, nearly 400 seats islamic mosques and more than 70 seats Christian churches throughout the city inside and outside.

Two car bombs exploded within minutes of each other in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, both of them near Shiah mosques.

Shiites set up two minarets above their mosques, whereas Sunnis set only one. That's the difference between Shiites and Sunnis mosques.

I can see children on the rooftops flying kites, while from the mosques comes the haunting sound of the azan, or call to prayer.

People also express "very strong" hostility to marriage with non-Muslims. Almost all regularly attend mosques.

Security sources say jihadi activity has moved away from mosques to clubs, gyms and private homes, where it is harder to monitor.

A wave of hate had wiped out two-thirds of the town, destroying houses and mosques, schools and clinics.

Given the dividends that some local politicians are reaping from backing mosques, or opposing them, that seems a less sure bet.

Other mosques serve Turkish, Yemeni and South Asian communities, as well as others.

Turkish palaces, mosques, museums, monuments, and hundreds of water fountains help tell the story of this old city.

Some see the hand of hardline Islamist groups, which work through local bookshops and mosques to encourage the spread of the niqab.

Hotels, mosques and hundreds of other buildings, including hospitals, were damaged.

Fatah's fans flock to Salafist mosques on Fridays in part to spare them from having to recite a weekly prayer for Gaza's Hamas rulers.

And the Hamas government that then briefly held power gave acolytes jobs administering government mosques.

He issues scripted weekly sermons and instructs censors to monitor mosques and verify compliance.

Samir Abdo Khaled, a 63-year-old driver, believes mosques should be completely off-limits to all combatants.

Kurds are spurning mosques staffed by state-appointed imams in favour of Kurdish-language prayers in fields.

Temples, mosques, churches and synagogues are all sacred buildings.

Israeli air strikes persistently hit police buildings, mosques, tunnels, homes, cars, and even pharmacy stores.

The city layout reflected their diversity: there were mosques, "idol temples" and even a Nestorian Christian church.

Ironically, instead, the interior ministry announces a plan to provide more protection for mosques and Husseiniyat.

Ottoman mosques in Cairo: wavering between the local and the official.

Muslim clerics at both Shi'ite and Sunni mosques in the town appealed to their congregations to remain calm and avoid violence.

Farmers dropped their tools and walked away upon seeing us, some heading into mosques where they'd be left alone.

Christian men attend mosques on Fridays, so as not to arouse suspicion.

Roughly half of all French mosques have no preachers .

They allegedly cooked up coup plans, including the bombing of mosques and murder of Christians.

Schools, universities and mosques were crushed by bombs in the wake of the three- week long Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip.

We were waiting for the signal and it happened. All mosques chanted 'God is great' all at once.

Most of the preaching in the city's many mosques is in Urdu.

They recite Koranic verses and hold special prayers and sermons at public halls and mosques.

Within days hundreds were killed in reprisals and scores of Sunni mosques were attacked.

Hindu temples and Muslim mosques stand alongside Chinese temples.

Bequelin said those jihadist training camps described in Xinhua are most likely unsanctioned mosques.

Mosques stand empty on a Friday, the traditional day of prayer in Pakistan.

In the 2006, when Hamas beat Fatah in a general election, many mosques doubled as offices for Hamas.

and old Dubai, perhaps most clearly represented by its ancient mosques and countless souks, all of which sell a different speciality.

The protesters are encouraging people to go onto the streets after praying in the mosques during Ramadan.

He established numerous mosques and madrasah in order further the spread of Sunni beliefs.

Today 4 people were killed in two separate bombings at Sunni mosques in Baquba.

They are facing sustained machine-gun fire from fighters hiding in bunkers and in buildings including homes and mosques.

and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques--especially to mosques.

Women wear headscarves, street names are in Malay and there are several mosques, all of which makes Oceania House all the more incongruous.

People offered their prayers in churches, mosques, synagogues and other places of worship.

These will be collected in mosques, in exchange for monetary compensation.

Fighting broke out after the call to prayer from the minarets of the mosques.

The sacredness of minarets comes from the mosques as religious places for Muslims to practice their rituals.

neither churches, nor mosques, nor synagogues, nor the son of God are exempt.

They believe in Islam, so in Islam, built the Temple Square Fan - Wye Holy Mosques.

Under the afternoon sun I walk up and up through quiet alleys, past secluded mosques and houses with peppered plaster.

Some British mosques say they are boosting their security following the attack in Norway.

The idea that mosques have a duty to articulate the feelings of their members (on anything from gambling to Gaza) sparks huge fights.

In Old Delhi you will find many mosques, monuments and forts relating to India's Muslim history.

Mosques and schools in Myanmar are shut down arbitrarily.

Are we going to object to all mosques on U. S. soil?

preserved of mosques in Heilongjiang.

The crescent moon is seen near mosques in old Cairo on the fifth day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on August 15, 2010.

Almost all regularly attend mosques. l The study inks the growing grip of Islam to the state's failure to promote integration.

It is stagnating in classrooms, mosques and the dusty corridors of government.

The central government vets the qualifications and pays the salaries of most of the preachers in the country's 75, 000 mosques.

More mosques are in it now, say the Serbs, than in Tehran.

They are similar to the traditional Arabic style mosques everywhere in the world.

Minarets are not sacred in themselves, but mosques as places for practicing religious rituals such as daily prayers make them sacred.

There are 200 mosques and prayer rooms across the European country, including 60 in Vienna alone.

The houses were almost all of mud, and the mosques with their green shuttered archways had minarets of mud and logs.

By contrast , roughly 80 percent of the 1, 200 imams preaching in French mosques and prayer houses were born overseas .

Lay down your weapons, and seek refuge in our mosques, churches and homes.

Gatherings will be in mosques and churches and we will then march to the big squares and streets.

Only 21 imams survived out of 113, along with perhaps 15% of Cambodia's mosques.

Mosques are oriented so that the mihrab faces Mecca.

People go to the mosques to pray five times a day. Before they pray, they perform a cleansing ritual.

Millions of Muslims live there and there are 23, 000 mosques. There are also Buddhist temples and churches.

The fourth holiest city of Islam, Harar has 82 mosques within its 16th-century walls.

Many of the mosques and other historic landmarks were added to UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1985.

You would never find it in churches, temples or mosques, for these are handmade and their gods hand-wrought.

Real men in America do not pray at mosques.

There are churches and mosques here.

Now China has more than 30, 000 mosques.

What a Wonderful Month! I like To listen to Holy Quran from Makkah. and the prayers of Traweeh in every Mosques around the Globe.

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