(n.) A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship.
Example Sentences:
(1) NPR reported that investigators have not found telltale signs associated with Islamist radicalization , such as a change in mosques or abrupt shifts in behavior or family associations.
(2) But today, Americans increasingly no longer shy away from saying they oppose mosques on the grounds that Muslims are a threat or different.
(3) Iraqi police have also executed detainees in Tal Afar and government-allied militias opened fire on a mosque in the Khanaqin district northeast of Baghdad killing 73 men and boys, Pansieri said.
(4) Cohen's informants began to carry recording devices into mosques under investigation.
(5) A family who live next door to the Bredon Croft address said Masood used to turn up in Islamic dress and take their neighbours’ children to a mosque, though they did not know which one.
(6) It has recorded donations totalling around £175,000 since 2002, and said in its latest Charity Commission accounts that money had been spent on mosque building projects, funding for orphan children, and refugee projects in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Muslims pray at the Al Khalil mosque in Molenbeek.
(8) Seven years later, the number of British mosques identified with Wahhabism had risen to 110.
(9) Mohammed Siddique, a 60-year-old imam, and his 24-year-old son, Mohammed Waqar, punished the boy for perceived shortcomings during religious lessons at the Sparkbrook Islamic centre, attached to the Jamia mosque, in Birmingham.
(10) I saw what looked like three big cows going towards the north of the mosque – it was dark so I could not identify well what they were.
(11) Abu Khalil's mother, who called herself Um Hassan, said warnings broadcast from mosques in Yarmouk early on Sunday had given residents two hours to leave.
(12) On Tuesday, the Guardian reported that Batten supported the creation of a code of conduct for British Muslims and argued for a ban on new mosques in Britain.
(13) The Palestinian said to him: ‘Sorry, I have to do this,’ and shot him.” The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, responded angrily on Thursday morning to the closure of the al-Asqa Mosque.
(14) Salafist communities operating outside the official mosques have sprung up in three districts, Gornja Maoča, Osve and Dubnica, and “pop-up” radical mosques, often funded from the Gulf, have appeared in Sarajevo, Zenica and Tuzla.
(15) On the other side of the square is a forlorn half-built mosque, abandoned for lack of funds, sprouting grass from its foundations.
(16) Governments, from the Sunni side the Saudi government, on the Shia side the Iranian government, have been putting fortunes of money into making sure that extremist mullahs are preaching in mosques around the world, and in building and developing schools in which a whole generation is being educated in extremism — and trying to prevent other forms of education.” • This article was amended on 13 January 2015 because an earlier version referred to “Oscar-winning filmmaker and author Sam Harris”.
(17) Civilian buildings, including a mosque, reportedly came under fire from tanks and artillery in Misrata, the last rebel stronghold in the west of the country.
(18) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
(19) The KSF believed they had come to the attention of the FBI in March after threatening an armed protest outside a mosque in Wichita, the largest city in the state, against a visiting preacher they deemed an affiliate of the Palestinian fundamentalist group Hamas.
(20) Nine people were taken to hospital after a man believed to be Darren Osborne, 47, from Cardiff, drove into worshippers near the Muslim Welfare House mosque.
Muezzin
Definition:
(n.) A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
(2) The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is.
(3) At dawn, the muezzin's call to prayer was drowned out by the sound of mortar fire as troops loyal to Saleh fought with a division of renegade soldiers for control over strategic parts of the capital.
(4) The omnipresence of the minarets and the muezzin's call – particularly around 5am – are a vivid reminder for the non-devout of the dominant deity's importance.
(5) "I don't want my grandchildren and great-grandchildren to live in a mostly Muslim country where Turkish and Arabic are widely spoken, women wear headscarves and the day is measured out by the muezzin's call to prayer," he said.
(6) When its population emerges in the evening to promenade and gather outside cafés, you could imagine you were somewhere in Italy – until you hear a muezzin's call from one of the city's many mosques, or fix your eye on a building that looks like it was transplanted from 1950s Moscow.
(7) If our suspicions are confirmed, this would be the first time they have done this and it would mark a new phase.” Crouched on a verge amid ash and soot, Sarfi Abdul Hassan, 73, a muezzin from a nearby Shia mosque, known as a Husseiniya, said his grandson had survived the inferno by hiding in a fridge.
(8) In other tweets, he made fun of a muezzin (a caller to prayer) and certain religious practices.
(9) A muezzin called for prayer and the whole town began to converge on the mosque.
(10) We have not had to do major patching up since 2006 when the Aga Khan’s restoration programme began,” says the Djinguereber muezzin, Mahamane Mahanmoudou.
(11) Outside the hospital gates a weeping muezzin gathered protesters for a mass prayer to mourn the death of 10 people on Friday, nine of them pro-opposition tribal fighters and one of them a journalist who died after being shot a few days earlier.
(12) But nothing now.” J ust before noon, the muezzin’s call rang from the loudspeaker atop the minaret.
(13) Delusionally aimed at Muslims in leadership roles, including muezzins and heads of NGOs, this charter assumes that the likes of the Muslim Council of Britain and al-Azhar – the 10th-century university in Cairo (and why not) – will jump at the chance to sign up to such things as denouncing sections of the Qur'an relating to jihad, confirming that "no violent physical jihad operation will be regarded as sacred" (article 6a) and that "no one who chooses to die in such an operation will be acknowledged as a martyr" (article 6c).
(14) God is great,” sang the muezzin, and the mourners pressed their foreheads to the asphalt.