mosque
a Muslim temple or place of public worship.
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How to use mosque in a sentence
Although the elderly can still worship, police bar children from entering the mosque.
How Beijing Is Redefining What It Means to Be Chinese, from Xinjiang to Inner Mongolia | CHARLIE CAMPBELL/SHANGHAI | July 12, 2021 | TimeLast year, his regime converted the historic Hagia Sophia monument that was serving as a museum into a mosque.
Celebratory gunfire sounded over the mostly dark neighborhoods, a few horns blared from cars braving streets pocked with shell craters, and praise for God rang out from mosques around Gaza City.
Fragile cease-fire finds parts of Gaza in shambles and Netanyahu condemned from his right | Shira Rubin, Michael E. Miller, Steve Hendrix, Miriam Berger | May 21, 2021 | Washington PostIn internal posts obtained by BuzzFeed, Facebook reportedly said the mistake had been made by an artificial intelligence system that mistook posts mentioning the mosque for references to a banned terror group.
Inside Facebook's Meeting with Palestinian Officials Over Posts Inaccurately Flagged as Incitement to Violence | Billy Perrigo | May 21, 2021 | TimeThe mosque in Jerusalem had been the site of recent Palestinian protests amid high communal tensions in the city.
Inside Facebook's Meeting with Palestinian Officials Over Posts Inaccurately Flagged as Incitement to Violence | Billy Perrigo | May 21, 2021 | Time
“Iran knows who lives in each and every house here,” one man in a Turbat mosque tells me.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan | Umar Farooq | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRiots broke out in 1994, after Iranian authorities replaced a Sunni mosque in Mashad with a development project.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan | Umar Farooq | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Palmyra, Krac des Chevaliers, Afamia, the Umayyad mosque—I took them everywhere,” he said, speaking to me in English.
Local Truces Are Syria’s Sad Little Pieces of Peace | Joshua Hersh | November 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSimilarly, we never failed to recognize our relatives or friends if we came across them in the mall or mosque.
Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif on Why She Removed the Veil | Manal Al Sharif, Advancing Human Rights | October 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe then expressed her annoyance that the leader of the Oklahoma mosque where Nolan had worshipped refused to appear on her show.
The building, a mosque-like structure of considerable size, was situated in the midst of a grove of mango trees.
The Red Year | Louis TracyHe entered the mosque alone; his wives remaining seated in their carriages outside.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowIt was a mosque that stood in a garden, bounded by a high and stout wall and protected by jungle and mud hovels.
The Red Year | Louis TracyAmong the other buildings, the mosque Aurang Zeb is most worthy of the notice of travellers.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferFattipoor Sikri stands upon a hill; the fortress walls, the mosque, and other buildings can therefore be seen from a distance.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida Pfeiffer
British Dictionary definitions for mosque
/ (mɒsk) /
a Muslim place of worship, usually having one or more minarets and often decorated with elaborate tracery and texts from the Koran: Also called: masjid, musjid
Origin of mosque
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for mosque
A Muslim house of worship with at least one minaret, a tall, slender tower with balconies, used for calling the faithful to prayer.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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