What is "masjid"

Usage examples of "masjid".

But then I took notice of the shape of that mihrab niche in the masjid wall.

Never having been in a masjid, I did not know what to expect, but I was vaguely surprised to find it absolutely unlighted and empty of worshipers or anybody else.

Even if this place was just an ordinary masjid house of worship, we had already considerably desecrated it.

In their interiors, the masjid temples differ notably from our Christian churches.

Look at any masjid and you will see each dome copied from the female human breast, its aroused nipple erect to the sky, and in each manaret a representation of the male organ, likewise joyously erect.

I have been inside many another masjid, and in every one that niche is so shaped.

Islam for the decoration of masjid temples, palaces and other fine buildings.

Mashhad is one of the very holy cities of Persian Islam, because a highly revered martyr of olden time, the Imam Riza, is entombed in an ornate masjid there.

I had a peek at the Jamia Masjid, the Great Mosque, being careful to stay on the outside, of course.

I will send your head to Fort Ali Masjid, with fifty men to swear El Borak murdered you.

Their destination was a spare parts yard directly across the square from the Jama Masjid mosque.

From the Jama Masjid mosque they headed east, crossed the Layari River for the second time and rejoined the Ali Jinnah Road again in open country.

Through the wooden lattice, beyond the water tanks and satellite dishes and kids playing rooftop cricket, I could see the ramparts of the Red Fort, the minarets and domes of the Jami Masjid and beyond them, the glittering glass and titanium spires of New Delhi.

Jama Masjid is djinns, packed so tight you can feel their fire as you move through them.

Jama Masjid, in the dervishes of litter along Chandni Chowk, in the starlings swirling above Connaught Circus.