Hundreds of protesters who took sanctuary in the mosque during the fighting left peacefully following lengthy negotiations with police. |
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Its wooden roof was supported by three great cross-beams which rested on squat octagonal pillars running down the centre of the mosque. |
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He took it on himself to help at the mosque, things that other people wouldn't want to do. |
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Eventually the crumbling brick and wood houses of the alleyways gave way to the great space of the mosque, its massive dome towering above us. |
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It comprises about half a dozen buildings, including a small mosque, several houses and two cramped dormitories. |
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One of the quickest ways of getting help is to go to the mosque and ask for zakat. |
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On the other, a cluster of irate worshippers, furious that their mosque had been violated. |
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Much of the time the different communities lived in introverted quarters, clustered around a mosque, a church or a synagogue. |
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An unpolitical lad is blackmailed by the police into doing undercover surveillance in a mosque. |
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A Musalla can be any temporary space being used for offering salat. It is possible that a musalla is called a mosque. |
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The mosque is the third holiest site for Muslims and is supposedly the place from where the prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven. |
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Sunni and Shi'ite worshippers arrived at Baghdad's large Um al-Qura mosque to pray together but then went their separate ways. |
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Unless attached to a mosque, they depended on voluntary contributions, tuition fees and free meals. |
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One thing is clear that this mosque is an early model of Indo-Islamic style of architecture. |
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Today, for instance, women not only pray at the mosque but also participate in social activities there. |
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They used the shell of a new mosque which has been under construction alongside the old building. |
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Some of his collection are now on display at his house, whose architectural inspiration was a mud mosque in Timbuktu. |
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People go to the mosque to pray and light candles and also visit the tombs of pir to make a wish. |
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On Fridays Muslims attend a service at a mosque in which an imam leads the prayer and usually gives a sermon. |
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Muezzins invoke a call to prayer, reminding everyone it is either time to pray or to call them to the mosque, and imams lead the prayers. |
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Thousands gathered to welcome the imam of the grand mosque in Makkah on his visit to Lancashire. |
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It would be mad for people just to run off to the local mosque and expect the imam to greet you with open arms. |
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His father, the imam of a neighborhood mosque that was destroyed in tribal conflict, was killed in prison. |
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Then the coffers were returned to the mosque row by row and fixed in place. |
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The mosque originally consisted of a rectangular court 43.2 m by 33 m, enclosed by colonnaded cloisters. |
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The paraders returned to the mosque, where refreshments were provided and the celebrations continued. |
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The mausoleum is part of a vast complex with a main gateway, garden, mosque, guesthouse and several other palatial buildings. |
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Sabaean and Himyarite inscriptions can be found on the gate of Shibam, especially in the mosque and in other older constructions. |
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People were still chanting part of the confession of faith in a mosque close to his parents' house. |
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Former neighbours recall a quiet and studious boy, who spent many hours with his late father Yusef at the local mosque. |
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As I walked around the outskirts of the mosque, I saw Uighur lute strummers congregating for impromptu performances. |
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Arches in three planes provide long spans in the prayer hall and carry the upper three storeys of the mosque. |
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And up and down the street, the passers-by and the old men coming back from the mosque joined in. |
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The entire mosque is flushed deep red, its minarets striped with red sandstone and white marble like giant sticks of candy. |
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The mosque has a unique architectural design showing a hanging mosque standing on a series of shops. |
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A service is held at the mosque before the body is taken to the burial ground. |
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The inauguration of the mosque coincided with Friday namaz in which I also participated. |
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The most striking structure was the Faizal mosque, the second biggest in the world which allows one lakh people to offer namaz. |
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The intense beauty of this mosque can leave you speechless, the play of light on the glazed and unglazed tiles is stunning. |
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The samaj deals with issues such as the maintenance of the local mosque, support of a mullah, and settling village disputes. |
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As we stood overlooking the east end of town, tourists milling around us, the muezzin of a mosque down in the valley began his call to prayer. |
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The new operation will gather and analyze such unclassified information as Web sites, blogs, mosque sermons, databases, and even T-shirt slogans. |
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In the mosque courtyard, workers mowed grass, raked out brush and freshened up old flower beds with new green plants. |
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Mohammed went to the mosque with an older cousin, probably out of curiosity. |
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One day the priest asked Mohammed if he might accompany him to the mosque to see what it was like there. |
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Yusef called the faithful to prayer five times a day as the muezzin of the mosque. |
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After the classical period the temple was converted first to a church and then a mosque. |
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Across it, turrets of the small white mosque seemed as insubstantial as the wobbling outlines of a heat mirage. |
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Nishat and Shalimar gardens as well as Hazratbal mosque are directly accessible by shikara. |
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It is the top road running from one end of Kas to the other, from the double minareted mosque, down to small pebble beach. |
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In Bethlehem, there are about as many church steeples as there are mosque minarets. |
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The slender minaret of a mosque and the spires of churches rise in sharp relief over the flat roofs of the homes. |
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Inside the mosque, a niche called mihrab orients the worshippers toward Mecca. |
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He was embroiled in a heated exchange at a public inquiry into controversial plans to build a mosque in his Clitheroe ward. |
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They also observed lessons in the school, visited a mosque and met local chiefs, elders and members of the wider community. |
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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. |
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In 1549, Jafar founded Kudus Mosque and fastened the rock in its mihrab, a niche in the mosque wall facing Mecca. |
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The mosque contains, in its eastern wall, the mihrab, an ornamented niche that points toward Mecca and toward Allah. |
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According to the book, the area of this mosque is 30x15 feet and its mihrab and musalla are still intact. |
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Hassane and most of the competitors sheepishly made their way over to El Hadji's open-air mosque to perform their ablutions and prayers. |
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The only architectural requirement for a mosque is that it have a wall correctly oriented toward the qibla. |
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The six-storey complex houses a plethora of Bengali community associations, a mosque, two boys' schools, a gym, several lecture halls. |
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Police investigating an arson attack on a Blackburn mosque say they are not treating it as a racial incident. |
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From the air, Bellamy was able to see beachfronts where whole communities had been destroyed, save for a mosque or other large structure. |
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The basilica, and the Parthenon itself, became the forefathers of the mosque and the church. |
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The hotel, built in 2002, stands proudly in the main square opposite the mosque. |
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Part of the main prayer room of the Masjid-E-Zaninabia mosque in Logwood Street was damaged by fire and badly smokelogged around 6pm yesterday. |
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We attend church, synagogue, mosque, mandir and gurudvara in record numbers. |
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In morning dark, Bradson was woken by the mosque singer, as he had been each morning he had been in this Sasak village. |
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In legal writings the term is applied to the leader of the congregational prayers in the mosque. |
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The mosque is now used by about 100 people for regular prayers and up to 200 for religious festivals. |
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It stands opposite the grand mosque of Sultan Hasan as an attempt of the Khedival family to measure up to the achievements of the Mamluks. |
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Almost square in plan, the mosque has a flat roof, making it cubic in shape. |
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Waves of panic seized the crowds in the narrow streets around the scene of the blast, near the central mosque. |
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Like the Hindu temples and the Sikh gurdwaras, the mosque as an architectural type, despite centuries of evolution, is a novelty in North America. |
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She then expressed her annoyance that the leader of the Oklahoma mosque where Nolan had worshipped refused to appear on her show. |
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Riots broke out in 1994, after Iranian authorities replaced a Sunni mosque in Mashad with a development project. |
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Within hours of completing their takeover of Sinjar, the Sayyida Zaynab mosque, a Shia holy site, was reportedly blown up. |
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A conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque would have international implications. |
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Police wearing riot gear responded by closing roads and kettling in the protesters outside the mosque, refusing to allow movement between their lines. |
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Some historical structures, including the mosque, the cemetery and a crusader building, would be preserved. |
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More than a 1,000 Nepalis hit the streets and rioted in Kathmandu, throwing rocks and attempting to set a mosque on fire. Police intervened to protect the mosque. |
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The bright aspect of the mosque is that it will provide an opportunity to women to seek help of their counterparts in cases of divorce, khula, etc. |
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It has been six months since unknown insurgents destroyed the Al-Askari mosque in Samarra. |
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The security forces also attacked a local mosque, which they believed was encouraging the disobedience. |
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Minutes after arriving in the compound Elkin was surrounded by worshipers, students and mosque guards, pressuring him to leave. |
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Just after dawn this morning, I was inside the encampment around the Rabaa al-Adaweyah mosque in the Nasr City district of Cairo. |
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For Scott, the school became an indispensable appendage to the mosque. |
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One proof of that is in the Muslims who now come and go from the ground zero mosque without receiving so much as a glare. |
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Who could be a better observer than the greengrocer by the mosque or the hospital night watchman? |
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Just this February, a Sikh gurdwara was mistaken for a mosque and vandalized in a suburb of Detroit. |
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The city was eventually damaged when a group of Franks set fire to a mosque in the Saracen quarter and Alexius IV refused to make the promised payment. |
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Linger over the view, which encompasses the San Joaquin River Valley, Banner Peak, Mt. Ritter, and the sawtooth Minarets, named for their resemblance to mosque towers. |
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If they followed the views of the local residents, the mosque would be soundly defeated. |
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The location of the new church is unique, as it will become part of a complex of religious buildings having a mandir and a mosque built close to each other. |
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Some of the families here stay inside the mosque, but the rest are camped out in tents that provide little shelter from the winter wind that blows across the university. |
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Only men attend the actual marriage vows, which take place in a mosque. |
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An alternative word for mosque, from the same root, is masjid. |
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Their plastic cups came from visitors from a mosque in Swindon who arrived one afternoon with Thermoses of sweet tea and samosas still warm from the oven. |
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One tradition indicates that Muhammad was performing the noon prayer at the mosque of Banu Salama in Medina when he changed direction in the middle of the prayer. |
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The plaques bearing Quranic calligraphy in homes, canopied gravestones, the call of the muezzins arising out of the pencilled minarets of the mosque further confirm it. |
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I think the only other mosque with six minarets is the one at Mecca. |
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She had been going to masjid al-Farah, the progressive mosque where Rauf preached, for years. |
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It is part of the bilal's duties also to look after the mosque. |
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Earlier this year, Meer got interested in the mosque effort near ground zero. |
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All the locals who came to a midland Park, New Jersey hearing on the building of a mosque were against. |
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However, every single resident of midland Park who testified voiced opposition to the mosque. |
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Generally a mohalla contained its own school, bazaar, mosque or temple. |
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Her activism for women's rights at her mosque in W.V. is the subject of a PBS documentary, The Mosque in Morgantown. |
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Her activism for women's rights at her mosque in West Virginia is the subject of a PBS documentary, The Mosque in Morgantown. |
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It morphed again in 1458 when the Ottoman Turks converted the structure into a mosque. |
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Similarly, we never failed to recognize our relatives or friends if we came across them in the mall or mosque. |
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As the muezzin sounded the call to prayer from the local mosque, the bats started to come out and dart around us, flying and jinking through the air with grace and precision. |
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He has twice visited Mecca, has 18 grandsons and is held in great respect by everyone in Barra where he is the main landlord and the honorary muezzin in the mosque. |
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Most town mosques are cared for and staffed by a mullah, who conducts religious services at the mosque as well as funerals, weddings, and blessings. |
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For weeks since our pilgrimage, the furious debate over the Ground Zero mosque has vexed me. |
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A second explosive was found undetonated in a grassy park near the mosque. |
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A stone mosque built not long after the city became a well-trodden passageway still stands as a central attraction in the town. |
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You can go to a mosque and offer namaz, you can keep the roza. |
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A third participant directed us to the mosque where the Taliban Five were most likely to pray. |
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Ships' horns toot, children wave and call hello, and every morning you're awakened by the haunting call of the muezzin from some distant village mosque. |
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The mosque stood on a grassy bank just above the high-water mark. |
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At one end of the square stands the town's main mosque, at the other the Church of the Nativity, in which a subterranean grotto marks the place of Christ's birth. |
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It was formerly the grandest church in Eastern Christendom, Sancta Sophia, that was battled over for centuries and subsequently turned into a mosque. |
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He codified a layered system of mosque types, reflecting hierarchies of social status and territorial rank, shaped by notions of identity, memory and decorum. |
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He was walking with an imam who feared his mosque was under threat. |
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Whereas there were about 100 people in the mosque, as many as it could fit, rows and rows of barefoot men listening to a pre-recorded voice intone prayers in Arabic. |
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In Chicago alone, for example, 55 hate crimes were reported in which the attacks were mentioned and at least once an angry mob descended on a mosque. |
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To this end emir after emir expanded and embellished the great mosque. |
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Its main draw is the Mezquita, an eighth century Arab mosque with a 16th century cathedral tucked inside. |
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Its main draw is the Mezquita, an 8th century Arab mosque with a 16th century cathedral neatly tucked inside. |
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The government regained control of the mosque after 10 days and those captured were executed. |
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The funeral was being held in an open field outside a mosque in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. |
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He's cut out of the family photo, shunned at the mosque and he loses out on a market stall when Roxy badmouths him. |
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The mosque was built with only one dome on its roof, which now lies above the Minbar and Mihrab. |
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When the Abbasids regained power in AD 905, Ibn Tulun's city was razed, but the great mosque at its centre was spared. |
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It added that Isreali police banned women, students and young people from entering the mosque. |
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Be warned, though, there's a mosque across the street and that early-morning call to prayer isn't exactly scheduled to suit holiday sleep-ins. |
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Be warned though, there's a mosque across the street and that early-morning call to prayer won't suit holiday sleep-ins. |
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A group of protestors were holed up inside a hall beside the mosque. |
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A mihrab, also spelled as mehrab is a semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla. |
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But stereotypes and overgeneralizations also can lead to mosque burnings and other crimes, as well as inform or influence US foreign policy. |
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In the Jordanian capital of Amman, mosque loudspeakers sounded Koranic verses in mourning. |
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Dennis Nash re-enlists in a bombed-out mosque in Fallujah, Iraq, some time after the battle for which he would be awarded a Bronze Star. |
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The Adina Mosque of undivided Bengal was the largest mosque built in the Indian subcontinent. |
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She wanted to meet the Bollywood actor after paying obeisance at a mosque in New Delhi and Ajmer's Dargah Sharif. |
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French authorities said he had lived in the southern Spanish city of Algeciras, frequenting a mosque which is under surveillance there. |
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At mosques that do not have minarets, the adhan is called instead from inside the mosque or somewhere else on the ground. |
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A common feature in mosques is the minaret, the tall, slender tower that usually is situated at one of the corners of the mosque structure. |
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The third mosque was also recently opened in Toxteth and is on Granby Street. |
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A SUSPECTED nail bomb explosion outside a mosque yesterday is being treated as a terror attack. |
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Prilep mayor Marijan Risteski threatened that the mosque in this city will once again be destroyed if namaz is performed in it. |
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The settlers shout, laugh raucously and generally show no respect for the sanctity of the mosque. |
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In 2006, Shimon Ben-Chaim, a 35-year-old Jew, threw a pig's head wrapped in a kaffiyah into the mosque compound, sparking a wave of protests. |
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We didn't go to a mosque, but my family didn't drink and I didn't wear shorts, so I'd say I grew up nerdy by default. |
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While the burning of the mosque in Tubas was nothing new, it does herald the darkest of times to come. |
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Some wept and women ululated defiantly as each body was taken from the makeshift morgue in a marble-floored section of the mosque. |
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The Fenghuangshi mosque was constructed by an Egyptian trader who moved to Hangzhou. |
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A total of 10,418 wudu points are available and 15 electric escalators are operational at the mosque. |
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On 2 January 1492 Isabella and Ferdinand entered Granada to receive the keys of the city and the principal mosque was reconsecrated as a church. |
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Before coming to the al-Aqsa mosque, Pope visited also Israel's Wailing Wall and Yad-Vashem genocide monument. |
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EciftsE-ren said the park must be left in place and there is deficiently no need for a shopping mall, though the area needs a mosque. |
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The oldest mosque in town, its minaret was built in the 13th century, and its pillars date back to Ottoman rule. |
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The former synagogue on Chevening Road was converted into a mosque in the 1990s, although there is an important synagogue nearby in Willesden. |
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A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims, who often refer to it by its Arabic name masjid. |
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A steeple in a church or a minaret in a mosque also serve as connections of earth and heaven. |
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While Ibn Battuta visited a mosque on shore, a storm arose and one of the ships of his expedition sank. |
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The majority of mosque managers are of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin, with many Gujarati, and fewer Arab, Turkish and Somali managed entities. |
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Nevertheless, a link between political views and mosque attendance can still be seen in other parts of the world. |
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The first mosque in London was the Fazl Mosque established in 1924, commonly called the London mosque. |
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The Sheik Karimal Makdum Mosque was the first mosque established in the Philippines on Simunul in Mindanao in the 14th century. |
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Lighting analysis of single pendentive dome mosque design in Sarajevo and Istanbul during summer solstice. |
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On 10 April, a rumor emerged that Saddam Hussein and his top aides were in a mosque complex in the Al Az'Amiyah District of Baghdad. |
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In 2014 the City Council agreed on the construction of a mosque next to the area of the former sport venue Palatrussardi. |
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The frequency by which Muslims attend mosque services vary greatly around the world. |
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Loud talking within the mosque, as well as discussion of topics deemed disrespectful, is forbidden in areas where people are praying. |
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Five people, believed to be ringleaders of the mosque group, were expelled last week by the immigration office in Dili. |
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The mosque was built by the Caliph Umar bin Abdulaziz when he was prince of Madinah and renewed during the Abbassid and Ottoman eras. |
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The first mosque in East Asia was reportedly established in the 8th century in Xi'an. |
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According to the extant documents, the date of this mosque goes back to 1240 Hejira computed according to lunar calendar. |
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As mosques are places of worship, those within the mosque are required to remain respectful to those in prayer. |
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If you ever deceive yourself into believing your children are angels, take them to a small church. Or a mosque. Or any place angelly. |
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The website of Arryadh newspaper posted pictures showing bloodied prayer rugs and part of the ceiling of the mosque that had caved in. |
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With the call to prayer the crowds fall silent, many spreading their prayer rugs on roads leading to the mosque. |
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Public libraries were very popular along with mosque, private, and academic libraries. |
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Still, some elements of Visigothic architecture, like horseshoe arches, were infused into the mosque architecture of Spain and the Maghreb. |
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Men are supposed to come to the mosque wearing loose and clean clothes that do not reveal the shape of the body. |
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Abdulla al-Faris told Aswat al-Iraq that Sheikh Jameel Ibrahim Mandil was arrested while heading to the mosque to deliver his Friday speech. |
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Over this beautiful mosque, there is a beautiful dome which recalls Seljuks which is of two covered domes. |
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In other words, is it reasonable to have the foreign policy of the country be decided by a Friday sermonizer in a Shiite mosque? |
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Human Rights Watch has previously documented the destruction and vandalization of a mosque in Taftanaz, Idlib by Syrian government forces. |
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It is also undesirable to come to the mosque after eating something that smells, such as garlic. |
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There is a mosque on Grosvenor Road in the former Wrexham Miners' Institute. |
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More than 2000 people from the Shia Ja'afari sect were praying at the mosque at the time of the bombing. |
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There is a mosque in the Craigshill area of the town called Livingston Mosque and Community Centre and also another within the Deans area. |
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The organisation, which has been campaigning against Shi'ism, said the mosque in Tehran started to be demolished last Wednesday. |
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However, even to those who enter the prayer hall of a mosque without the intention of praying, there are still rules that apply. |
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The 27-year-old was last seen fleeing a London mosque in the burka on Friday. |
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The qiblah wall should, in a properly oriented mosque, be set perpendicular to a line leading to Mecca, the location of the Kaaba. |
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The mosque has been at the heart of al Shabb's attempts to radicalize disillusioned young Kenyan Muslims over the past couple of years, security sources say. |
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Feeling thirsty, he stopped to drink water from the water cooler of a mosque where he got electrocuted, said Aheed Al Balushi, a witness and a friend of the deceased. |
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Soon, a distinctly Persian style of mosques started appearing that would significantly influence the designs of later Timurid, and also Mughal, mosque designs. |
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The Persians also introduced Persian gardens into mosque designs. |
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The new mosque has the capacity of ten thousand worshippers. |
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Other mosque bombings in Iraq, both before and after the February 2006 bombing, have been part of the conflict between the country's groups of Muslims. |
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Its usage spans centuries, first appearing in 691 with the construction of the Dome of the Rock mosque, and recurring even up until the 17th century with the Taj Mahal. |
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The design and construction of the mosque and Musalla and their decorations mustn't be in a western style reminding unreligious or antireligious architecture. |
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Tony Blair had visited the religious leader several times at the mosque. |
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Placing the body on a bier, it is first taken to a mosque where funeral prayer is offered for the dead person, and then to the graveyard for burial. |
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The Ahmadiyya mosque in Marshall Islands is the only mosque in Micronesia. |
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Afonso prepared Malacca's defenses against a Malay counterattack, building a fortress, assigning his men to shifts and using stones from the mosque and the cemetery. |
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The Ayatollah Khomeini poured gasoline on the fire with his comments on the mosque seizure, which were broadcast by Iranian radio the day after the attack. |
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The Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque, but the Greek Orthodox Church was allowed to remain intact and Gennadius Scholarius was appointed Patriarch of Constantinople. |
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Initial limited mosque availability meant that prayers were conducted in small rooms of council flats until the 1980s when more and larger facilities became available. |
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Besides the mosque, it is also possible to find good examples of Ottoman architecture in soup kitchens, theological schools, hospitals, Turkish baths and tombs. |
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Despite all its history, though, all that remains now of the original mosque are these pepper pot minarets and some Qur'anic inscriptions along the walls. |
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The mosque was integral to society, city planning and communal life. |
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As one of the protesters tried to remove a prayer rug from the space in front of the mosque, tension escalated and a fight started between the two group. |
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Likewise, it is recommended that women at a mosque wear loose clothing that covers to the wrists and ankles, and cover their heads with a hijab or other covering. |
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How can we stop a mosque or madrassah training center from going in there? |
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Glazed lime plaster would be applied on the interior and exterior of the dome of the mosque while a parapet of glazed tiles merlons would also be restored. |
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The mosque, visited by all Muslims, has ironically become one of the most symbolic battlegrounds of the increasingly sectarian fault line between Sunnis and Shi'as. |
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Starting from 6am, a dedicated booth will offer the tens of thousands of dates and Arabic coffee, free of charge to mosque visitors after the Salat Al Eid prayers. |
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The Medieval Morocco exhibition displays very symbolic items as minbars and bell lamps of the Al Qarawiyyin mosque which were lent by the Kingdom. |
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The iqama, which is similar to the adhan and said immediately before the start of prayer, is usually not said from the minaret even if a mosque has one. |
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The application is equipped with comprehensive information including prayer times, kiblah and mosque finder, Hijri calendar, Quranic verses and information on Hajj. |
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The rulers of the Turkic Ilyas Shahi dynasty built the largest mosque in South Asia, and cultivated strong diplomatic and commercial ties with Ming China. |
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Earlier on Wednesday, gunmen stormed the Sunna Mosque, the biggest Salafi mosque in Sana'a, located in the Sawan area, claiming that they were looking for weapons. |
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