| An unpolitical lad is blackmailed by the police into doing undercover surveillance in a mosque. |
| Inside the mosque, a niche called mihrab orients the worshippers toward Mecca. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Sunni and Shi'ite worshippers arrived at Baghdad's large Um al-Qura mosque to pray together but then went their separate ways. |
| The mosque is the third holiest site for Muslims and is supposedly the place from where the prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven. |
