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37 examples of Mosque in a sentence

In England, 1,900 churches have been shut down since 1969, due to shrinking congregations, while in Africa, every single day, a church or mosque is being built.
In some communities, you might not find a public health center, a post office or even a school, but you'll find a church or mosque.
The mosque where the respectful foreigner is showered with blessings and with tears, and welcomed as a gift.
A year ago I was in Tunis, and I met the imam of a very small mosque, an old man.
Frustrated by this myopic view, my friend and I had this crazy idea: Let's break our fast at a different mosque in a different state each night of Ramadan and share those stories on a blog.
In pre-independence India, a court held that a Hindu idol was a legal person, that a mosque was a legal person.
She stopped attending our local mosque.
For the minaret, I thought that the most relevant message to be put on a mosque should come from the Quran, so I picked this verse: "Oh humankind, we have created you from a male and a female, and made you people and tribe, so you may know each other."
Similarly, we had a mosque that also feared becoming a target.
And they would collect small gold tokens to fundraise for the local mosque.
At the end of the harvest, the Bozo take the leftover rice straw and they mix it with mud to reinforce their roofs and the village mosque.
And each mosque was like a sculptural masterpiece, and no two were alike.
The High Court of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, finally decided a 61-year-old suit over possession of a disputed site in the temple city of Ayodhya, where, in 1992, a howling mob of Hindu extremists tore down the Babri Masjid mosque.
The mosque was built in the 1520’s by India’s first Mogul emperor, Babur, on a site traditionally believed to have been the birthplace of the Hindu god-king Ram, the hero of the 3,000-year-old epic, the Ramayana.
But the Hindus who attacked the mosque had little faith in the institutions of Indian democracy.
Hamas Takes on the RadicalsGAZA CITY – The recent shoot-out in a Gaza mosque between Hamas security officers and militants from the radical jihadi group the Warriors of God brought to the surface the deep tensions that divide Palestinian Islamists.
But, with their government unable to do anything about the expansion of Israeli settlements, including in East Jerusalem, as well as continued conflicts over holy sites in Hebron, Bethlehem, and the Al-Aksa mosque, West Bank Palestinians are extremely frustrated.
Politicization of the mosque has, sadly, also become the norm in Britain.
The violence outside the Medina mosque has led to unprecedented demonstrations in front of Saudi embassies in London, Berlin, and The Hague, with protesters demanding independence from the Saudi state.
In light of widened regional and political cleavages, confrontations such as occurred in the holy mosque of the Prophet could increase in frequency, size, and violence.
Despite the horrific violence of Islamist fanatics, it should not be forgotten that the mosque can also be a legitimate basis for resistance against the mostly secular dictatorships in the Middle East today.
The drive to build a temple to the god Ram in Ayodhya, on the site of a 16 th century mosque demolished by Hindu mobs in 1992, is gaining new energy.
Unlike Nateq-Nouri, who was an anti-Western ideologue with limited exposure to the outside world, Khatami speaks at least two foreign languages, studied in Europe, and worked at a mosque in Germany.
For example, during Ramadan prayers last October, a mob of a 1,000 people razed a mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.
Likewise, Khan’s position in favor of gay marriage has earned him a fatwa for apostasy from the fearsome head imam of a Bradford mosque.
The BJP and its allies sought retribution for what they portrayed as the historical sins of the Muslims, and turned an insignificant 16 th century mosque at Ayodhya into the symbol of this mission.
Finally, the Ayodhya mosque was demolished in December 1992 during a mass gathering organized by the BJP.
The destruction of the mosque was seen as the most serious rupture between Hindus and Muslims since India became independent in 1947.
Its population lives in fear of bombings and suicide attacks – the next one could be at the local mosque, an internet café, or a roadside restaurant.
No Muslim, it seems, is prepared to forget that Jerusalem is home to the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third most sacred site in Islam.