Muslim house of worship

Usage examples of mosque.

At Bayazid, I performed my ablution in the courtyard, entered the mosque and prayed.

Not knowing exactly what excuse to make, but hoping for something to turn up, the mullah took a lantern and followed him out, taking the lead as they passed through the gap in the fence and drew abreast of the mosque portico.

Idrees, accounted the second ameer of that name, who there lies buried in the most important mosque of the Empire, the very approaches of which are closed to the Jew and the Nazarene.

This doubtless formed the spot reserved for the Ameer and his Court, screened off on three sides to prevent the curiosity of the worshippers overcoming their devotion, as is still arranged in the mosques which the Sultan of Morocco attends in his capitals.

In the shadow of the El Arish mosque, they lined up about sixty unarmed Egyptian prisoners, hands tied behind their backs, and then opened fire with machine guns until the pale desert sand turned red.

The clergy artfully confounded the mosque or church of the temple with the holy sepulchre, and their willful error has deceived both Vertot and Muratori.

Mosque of Islam, Incorporated, feel that it would be discrimination of the nastiest kind were he not to be permitted to share with their members his personal expertise in the kind of operation they have long been planning, to wit the engenderment of self-respect in their members by means of personal armed conflict, sabotage, and other manly pastimes.

Working with half a dozen other agents in a five-vehicle team, Fogle photographed a number of MEs loading boxes into vans outside the mosque.

Mosque that is a ruin inhabited by hawks and the other Mosque of the Aissawa, and the three squalid fondaks wherein the Jews live like cattle.

In fact, Mohammedan law and custom rule in civil cases, and the Imaum of the mosque assists the judge with his advice.

There is an inferior official of the mosque who keeps it clean, and reports to the Imaum absentees from public worship, goes round the villages to give notice of public prayer, assists at burials, and beats the great drum of the mosque.

Ommony tied the pony to a tree outside the mosque, and a jungli, whom no one had noticed hitherto, came and sat in the dust beside the animal.

I knew that I could not hope to reach Mecca, and kiss the sacred black stone, or pray in the Mosque of the holy Lella Fatima, I have wished to visit a certain great marabout in the south.

Well, you know all about it, those first weeks with the Siggies touring around and singing in front of churches and mosques and temples, and the Unitarian minister coming out to hold joint services in the open air, and the kids wearing maypole buttons and Great Pupa buttons and all the rest.

If their pagan whim tolerated Christian basilicas in the precincts of their ancient temples, it permitted mosque, harem, and mihrab equally.