Mosque

Word MOSQUE
Character 6
Hyphenation mosque
Pronunciations /mɒsk/

Definitions and meanings of "Mosque"

What do we mean by mosque?

A building used as a place of Muslim worship. noun

A Mohammedan place of worship and the ecclesiastical organization with which it is connected; a Mohammedan church. noun

A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship. noun

A place of worship for Muslims, corresponding to a church or synagogue in other religions, often having at least one minaret; a masjid. noun

(Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret noun

A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.

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The word "mosque" in example sentences

Not content with all this, they built a small miniature mosque at the door with some loose bricks, so that no one could go either out or in without the risk of knocking it down, or so injuring this _mock mosque_ as to rouse, or enable the evil - minded to rouse, the whole Mahommedan population against the offender. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

"claim" to Jerusalem is allegedly based on what is written in the koran, which although does not mention Jerusalem even once, nevertheless talks of the "furthest mosque" (in Sura 17: 1): «Glory be unto Allah who did take his servant for a journey at night from the sacred mosque to the furthest mosque». ❋ Unknown (2009)

Google the term "mosque vandalized" and you find 244,000 results. ❋ Dr. Faheem Younus (2012)

If for Hosseini the mosque is a place of solace amid the voids of absence and death, for Salman Rushdie, in his 1981 novel, Midnight's Children, the Indian mosque is an inert witness to events mundane and catastrophic at the same time it is an indifferent utility of life and death. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2010)

In Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel, The Kite Runner, the mosque is a place of childhood memories, either despite or because Hosseini was himself raised as a secular Muslim. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2010)

The former Governor of Vermont told the Huffington Post that he "stood by" the remarks he had made earlier in the day on WABC radio in which he called the mosque plan "a real affront to people who lost their lives [on 9/11]." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Muslim Council of Britain, of which the mosque is an affiliate, said: ‘Some of the statements are deeply offensive, but it would be very wrong, and quite unfair, to smear the whole centre.’ ❋ Unknown (2008)

That, plus the creation of the mosque (which people are in denial about, bandying non-religious terms like "meditation center" or somesuch - please, a mosque is a mosque is a mosque), which finally gives the devotees of Islam a place to pray (smackdab in the middle of what used to a fish pond is a Catholic Church, so fair is fair). posted by Dean at ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2004)

Critics charge that having what they call a mosque so close to what they consider hallowed ground is an insult to the victims 'families, especially because the attack was perpetrated in the name of Islam. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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