There have been attacks on mosques ranging from windows being broken to petrol bombings. |
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These concepts are reflected in great mosques, forts, durbars and palaces, gardens and pools, and finally, tombs. |
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Ninety people attended the vigil, including 30 people who joined us from the local mosques following evening prayers. |
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Those who go to mosques for prayers should not allow their attention to be diverted for any reason. |
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Le Pen is not welcome in Birmingham where churches, mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras, mandhirs and temples fill the skyline. |
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I've been meeting with local Sikhs in the gurdwara, with churches and with different mosques. |
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But I don't think the gurdwaras, mosques and temples have played a major role either. |
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Many mosques are there and they give an impression of the grandeur of architecture. |
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Approximately 230 shrines, mosques and dargahs were destroyed and desecrated. |
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During the riots, when threatened by blood-thirsty mobs, it were the mosques and dargahs that gave them shelter. |
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It is common in mosques in America that the Qur'an and other religious books are placed on the prayer mat. |
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There are about 30 mosques in the city where prayers are being held regularly. |
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This last is interesting not only for its cruciform plan, but also because it is one of the few examples of covered mosques in India. |
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Churches, mosques and school buildings are among the public facilities flattened by the quakes. |
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A shortage of qualified imams means British mosques look abroad for clerics, often to Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. |
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Cell phones also ring at other mosques while imams give their Friday sermon and lead the five daily prayers. |
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The imams from 12 mosques are meeting this week to discuss calling for a vote for Respect. |
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During this period, the minarets of all the mosques are illuminated with strings of electric lights. |
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Multiethnicity is demonstrated by the many churches, synagogues, Hindu temples, and mosques. |
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Almost everywhere there are new churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples springing to life along our vast exurban periphery. |
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Haven't churches, synagogues and mosques met the same fate at the hands of vandals? |
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There were no attacks on churches or mosques during the period covered by the report. |
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In many mosques, only a small portion is left for offering prayers and all the remaining portions are occupied. |
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Surprising to visitors are mosques that stand side-by-side with Byzantine Orthodox churches. |
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Preservation of the urban heritage also is seen in the renovation of old forts, palaces, souks, and mosques. |
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It was far from the days when Bolshevik women activists veiled themselves to conduct political work in the mosques. |
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Since then, police have distributed mugshots to mosques and boarding houses across West Java and set up road blocks. |
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Everywhere I go in Beirut, churches and mosques are being built, often alongside each other. |
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The Imams in our mosques give sermons on so many issues, but never touch upon this topic of dowry. |
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From the top, we can see mosques, churches and synagogues and graveyard after graveyard. |
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This is the view of most of the imams preaching in the mosques in the West. |
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Schools, churches, mosques, offices and ordinary homes are crammed with refugees. |
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The surrounding area is full of mosques and its residents number many devout Muslims. |
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Mosques are full to overflowing and new mosques are being built to meet the demand. |
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And here, too, places of worship sprout, Hindu and Buddhist temples, mosques and Sikh gurudwaras. |
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Do you know that more than 30,000 temples were converted into mosques during Mohammedan rule? |
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Konya was a showplace of Turkish architecture, with a collection of mosques and schools that made the city a rival of Istanbul and Bursa. |
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Many items thought to be missing had been stored in mosques for safe keeping. |
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Her book on Sinan is a complete contrast to the countless coffee table books with stunning photographs of domed mosques and pointed minarets. |
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The quake caused 15 buildings and the minarets of four mosques to collapse in Bolvadin, located about a three-hour drive from the capital Ankara. |
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Houses and mosques lie deep down below, and from the crater's edge they look like tiny toys or models on a child's train set. |
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For example, at Mansura in Sind, all the remains of the mosques, one of which is pillared, have mihrabs in this position. |
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It is building up trust through station tours and visits to schools, social centres, mosques and temples. |
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Many homes, schools, mosques and offices were damaged and thousands of injured people were taken to hospital. |
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Dhafir spoke everywhere from mosques to community centers to Quaker meeting houses about the devastation the sanctions caused. |
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As governor of Isfahan, he had all the Safavid palaces destroyed, leaving only their splendid mosques. |
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So now when I go to one of our fabulous temples or palaces or mosques or mausoleums, I will see them for what they are. |
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Their mosques are known as masjids and not by any other name like temple, church or synagogues. |
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Aside from the shelters, many internally displaced people are living in schools, mosques, government offices and marketplaces. |
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Now these mosques have either been destroyed by savagery of times or are under personal control of people who later occupied them. |
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So, at most madrasa graduates can aspire to become teachers in madrasas, imams in mosques or else open another madrasa of their own. |
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Residents said mosques had broadcast appeals for police to return to duty and some had responded. |
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The only upside is that for a while, sectarian suspicions were put on hold as Sunni mosques organized relief for Shi'ite families. |
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He said he read his father accounts of Shiites attacking Sunni mosques in mixed neighborhoods. |
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The archbishop of York last night dismissed reports which suggested more Muslims were going to mosques than Anglicans to Church. |
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All mosques have zenanas or areas of worship for women on the upper storey with a separate entrance on the side. |
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Minarets, markets and menus are alluring, but no visit to Istanbul would be complete without its mosques. |
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A fair number of young people attend worship, religious weddings take place and churches and mosques are being built. |
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Consequently and unfortunately, Korean Muslims and mosques continue to receive threats. |
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Donations were collected from Bolton's 15 mosques following a week-long appeal. |
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The rabbis in their pulpits and the kadis in their mosques have erased the word from their lexicon. |
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Meanwhile, traumatised survivors are thronging to mosques and the few psychiatric wards as they try to grapple with the mental shocks of Kashmir's devastating earthquake. |
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There were mass closures of churches, mosques, and monasteries, and new taxes on religious facilities. |
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Its futuristic design features wind turbines instead of the traditional minarets, while a translucent latticed roof would replace the domes seen on most mosques. |
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Subsequent attacks on Sunni mosques were blamed on Shi'ite militants. |
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It has always been the case that churches, synagogues and mosques have fostered compassionate care for the unfortunate. |
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The temblor also damaged hundreds of houses and buildings, including the local legislative council building and several churches and mosques, and five bridges. |
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Web sites are supplanting mosques, madrassas and cafes as the incubators of Islamist radicalism. |
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Almost every child grew up in an environment that included the call to prayer from the minarets of the mosques and the ringing of the church bells from church steeples. |
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A wave of bombings of historic mosques and shrines by ultraconservative Salafists has the postrevolution Libyan government fuming. |
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We encounter here something entirely different from the most beautiful cathedrals, mosques, the Indian and Siamese temples or pagodas, and even from the temples of China. |
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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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Until early in the 20th century many old mosques had ancient bo trees next to them indicating that the sites were once occupied by Buddhist temples. |
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The focal point of any Middle Eastern city is the souk, or marketplace, a labyrinthine space of alleys, stalls, and tiny shops that also include ancient mosques and shrines. |
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Furthermore, all the historic carpets of Usak were placed in the museum by the local mufti when some carpets were stolen from the mosques of Usak. |
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An appeal for donations was read out in more than 400 mosques across Britain yesterday and many churches are planning to hold collections at services this weekend. |
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Muslims also pray in mosques on Friday, their holy day of the week. |
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Such increased devoutness and the Huis' tendency to congregate in and around mosques have made them appear clannish to many Han Chinese, Mai said. |
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There will also be a major development in the multi-faith programme, with gurdwaras, mosques, temples and churches participating throughout the 11-day festival. |
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In many mosques, even the carpeted prayer area has no designs, its plainness helping worshippers to focus. |
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In cities, the mosques funded by Wahabi Saudi funds are atrocious concrete imitations of a bastardized Middle Eastern style. |
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They were also commonly donated to mosques, which often amassed large collections of them. |
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He commended the Hashemites for their special and continued care of the mosques over the past decades. |
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These mosques have square or rectangular plans with an enclosed courtyard and covered prayer hall. |
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Beginning in the 1980s, the Saudi Arabian government began to finance the construction of Sunni mosques in countries around the world. |
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Hamas terrorists admitted to using human shield by using mosques and hospitals as hiding places and building tunnels near school playground. |
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As in the case with many mosques, the prayer hall was constructed in the hypostyle form, where the roof is held up by a multitude of columns. |
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Following the September 11 attacks, several American mosques were targeted in attacks ranging from simple vandalism to arson. |
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The architecture of the Bengal Sultanate saw a distinct style of domed mosques with complex niche pillars and no minarets. |
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Today, civic participation is commonly promoted in mosques in the Western world. |
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The late 20th century saw an increase in the number of mosques used for political purposes. |
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As with iftar dinners, congregants usually provide the food for suhoor, although able mosques may provide food instead. |
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Some mosques will also hold suhoor meals before dawn to congregants attending the first required prayer of the day, fajr. |
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Some mosques will even rent convention centers or other large public buildings to hold the large number of Muslims who attend. |
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Mosques in western China were more likely to incorporate elements, like domes and minarets, traditionally seen in mosques elsewhere. |
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A Chinese pavilion instead of a minaret at the Great Mosque of Xi'an, one of China's largest mosques. |
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In this respect, fractal geometry has been a key utility, especially for mosques and palaces. |
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The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs. |
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The Chach Nama records many instances of conversion of stupas to mosques such as at Nerun. |
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The city has numerous mosques including the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Ruwi Mosque, Saeed bin Taimoor and Zawawi Mosque. |
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Art in the service of religion, those pieces that would be encountered in mosques, is indeed aniconic. |
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It was surrounded by a moat and contained the shah's palace, and his mosques and temples. |
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The centre supervises QC's projects, including mosques, complexes and income-generating initiatives, in Rangpur District. |
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The majority of mosques use only English for the main message of the khutbah. |
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The state maintains its control on mosques through unifying the Friday Khutba and selecting preachers of the most important mosques. |
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Her second piece 'Kufi' is a 3-D printed lamp design with denotes the lost calligraphy technique of Kufi, usually used in mosques. |
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The two largest mosques in Sierra Leone are the Freetown Central Mosque and the Ghadafi Central Mosque, both located in the capital Freetown. |
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Repairs were encouraged and the mosques were not allowed to be converted to any other use. |
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Akram is a working alim, lecturing in mosques and universities and dispensing fatwas on issues like inheritance and divorce. |
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The number of working mosques also declined, falling from 1,500 to 500 within a decade. |
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By 1940, as many as 90 percent of the churches, synagogues, and mosques that had been operating in 1917 were closed. |
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They built schools, mosques, and irrigation channels, as well as water cisterns and bridges in Zabid, Aden, Rada'a, and Juban. |
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It includes several mosques and a traditional bathroom, the arcs of which date back to the Mamluk era. |
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Many mosques have elaborate domes, minarets, and prayer halls, in varying styles of architecture. |
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The new mosques are Masjid No at Old Al Ghanem, Masjid No at Al Kharara area and Masjid No at Umm Ghuwailina. |
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All entrants regardless of religious affiliation are expected to respect the rules and decorum for mosques. |
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It is not for such as join gods with Allah, to visit or maintain the mosques of Allah while they witness against their own souls to infidelity. |
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Since the 10 century, rulers of Kilwa would go on to build elaborate coral mosques and introduce copper coinage. |
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Many mosques today will put the women behind a barrier or partition or in another room. |
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Two mosques were built by him, one in Nanjing and the other in Xi'an and they still stand today. |
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The devotees made a beeline to the mosques to offer the special Namaz of Eid-ul-Fitr. |
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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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A number of charity boxes put outside mosques and at shopping malls in Jeddah have been turned into trash cans. |
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Some mosques will also extend that rule to include other parts of the facility even if those other locations are not devoted to prayer. |
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This period that left behind numerous courtyard houses, mosques, shrines and walled enclosures. |
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All mosques have rules regarding cleanliness, as it is an essential part of the worshippers' experience. |
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Thus, foyers with shelves to put shoes and racks to hold coats are commonplace among mosques. |
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In traditional mosques, this function is often elaborated into a freestanding building in the center of a courtyard. |
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However, worshippers at much smaller mosques often have to use restrooms to perform their ablutions. |
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Modern mosques have evolved greatly from the early designs of the 7th century, and contain a variety of architectural elements such as minarets. |
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Some mosques have multiple, often smaller, domes in addition to the main large dome that resides at the center. |
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The majority of British mosques are Sunni, including Deobandi, Barelvis and Salafi. |
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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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The top of the minaret is always the highest point in mosques that have one, and often the highest point in the immediate area. |
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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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In Africa, most mosques are old but the new ones are built in imitation of those of the Middle East. |
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Frequently, hypostyle mosques have outer arcades so that visitors can enjoy the shade. |
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One of the most notable hypostyle mosques is the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain, the building being supported by over 850 columns. |
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Some synagogues and community buildings were turned into mosques and existing mosques began to expand their buildings. |
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Most early hypostyle mosques had flat roofs on prayer halls, which required the use of numerous columns and supports. |
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Religious institutions remained monitored by the Soviet government, but churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques were all given more leeway in the Brezhnev era. |
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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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As mosques are supposed to appeal to the community, they may also have additional facilities, from health clinics to libraries to gymnasiums, to serve the community. |
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Diyarbakir boasts numerous medieval mosques and madrassahs, crowned by the 11th Century Ulu Cami constructed by alternating bands of blacks basalt and limestone. |
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Modern mosques have a variety of amenities available to their congregants. |
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It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. |
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However, the Great Mosque of Xi'an, whose current building dates from the 18th century, does not replicate the features often associated with mosques elsewhere. |
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The government is focussing on mosques and structures in Erzurum and its surroundings and the restorations have had a positive affect on the city's tourism potential. |
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Secular powers such as the Chinese Red Guards closed many mosques and destroyed Qurans, and Communist Albania became the first country to ban the practice of every religion. |
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Two of the main scripts involved are the symbolic kufic and naskh scripts, which can be found adorning the walls and domes of mosques, the sides of minbars, and so on. |
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It comprises 23 caravansaries, 22 corridors, 20 malls, 28 mosques, eight madrasahs, five bath houses, two ice houses and a zurkhaneh or traditional athletic club. |
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Housed in madrasas, mosques, Sufi convents, mausolea, and hospitals, these libraries contained works on the religious and rational sciences as well as literature and poetry. |
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In India these endless mosques and rhetorical mausolea, these great palaces speak only of a personal plunder and a country with an infinite capacity for being plundered. |
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Commenting on the niche or mihrab in mosques, he said the design was meant to indicate the direction of prayer towards Mecca and amplify the voice of the prayer leader. |
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Because of the community contribution necessary to serve iftar dinners, mosques with smaller congregations may not be able to host the iftar dinners daily. |
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As ritual purification precedes all prayers, mosques often have ablution fountains or other facilities for washing in their entryways or courtyards. |
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As Muslims must fast during the day during Ramadan, mosques will host iftar dinners after sunset and the fourth required prayer of the day, maghrib. |
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The sickness is Islamofascist cancer, which has been allowed to metastasize in the banlieues, prisons, mosques, associations, schools and even universities. |
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You can trek on foot or horse in the spectacular Tian Shan or Altay Mountains, watch flamingos on steppe lakes or discover mysterious underground mosques near the Caspian Sea. |
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Muhammad told Muslims not to forbid women from entering mosques. |
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Azans were called from the mosques and special prayers were offered. |
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All mosques were either completely destroyed or converted into churches. |
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Every Friday, Muslims observe their midday prayer which has hundreds of thousands of Muslims from the country visit the local mosques to hear the Khutbah, or sermon. |
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Congregants and visitors to mosques are supposed to be clean themselves. |
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Examples of these are the various temples, shrines and mosques including Masjid Wilayah Persekutuan, Sri Maha Mariamman Temple and Cathedral of Saint Mary the Virgin. |
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These mosques have a large dome centered over the prayer hall. |
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The Ottomans introduced central dome mosques in the 15th century. |
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