(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.
Worship
Definition:
(a.) Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
(a.) Honor; respect; civil deference.
(a.) Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
(a.) The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.
(a.) Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
(a.) An object of worship.
(v. t.) To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
(v. t.) To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
(v. t.) To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
(v. i.) To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(2) If you worship money and things - if they are where you tap real meaning in life - then you will never have enough.
(3) At first hardline Islamist groups, and later the country’s religious establishment, had been calling for the statue’s removal, on the grounds that its presence was an example of idol worship, forbidden in Islam .
(4) At a press conference held outside the temple on Sunday, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said the "heroic actions" of the two officers "stopped this from being worse than it could have been", noting that many people had gathered for worship at the time of the attack.
(5) The idea that churches should only be places of worship is quite a modern view,” says Matthew McKeague, head of regeneration at the Churches Conservation Trust.
(6) Lauren was my only daughter and I worshipped the ground she walked on and this person was hiding behind a computer.
(7) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(8) Having narrowly avoided taking the state into the realm of a free press we should not be intruding on the freedom of worship that is the proper preserve of the church not the courts."
(9) In a time of growing tensions we must uphold our fundamental freedom to worship in the land of religious freedom and its why I choose to be unapologetically Muslim every day.
(10) New Labour actively championed the City, worshipping the bankers and marketing London as a financial centre where the regulation would be light touch.
(11) David Cameron is supporting a compromise through what is known as a permissive clause that allows gay marriages to be held in places of worship but does not oblige religious organisations to hold same-sex weddings.
(12) On Sunday, gun control advocates plan to hold a "National Gun Prevention Sabbath", where they say 150 houses of worship will advocate a plan to prevent gun violence, and people who have lost friends and relatives to gun violence will display their photographs.
(13) Over the summer, Hindu nationalists in India performed ceremonial rituals for Trump in the hopes that their worship would help him get elected, so he can “ put an end to Islamic terrorism ”.
(14) But like many South Africans, he balances indigenous ancestor worship with the Christian God‚ or at least gives that impression publicly.
(15) In his book School Worship: An Obituary (1975), he argued against the practice of compulsory worship in inclusive schools.
(16) But one way of looking at the whole armour of Christian practices – prayer, worship, and endless discussion of these things – is that their function is to suggest that it doesn’t have to be a delusion, that the world around them may be wrong.
(17) There is an inability to break with the slavish, neoliberal worship of that abstract totem, the national economy.
(18) His new organisation, described in one account as being "characterised by the ultra-left posturing and Mao worship", was called the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.
(19) Here workmen brought from distant Rajasthan are preparing spectacular marble panels inlaid with semi-precious stone for a new place of worship, or gurdwara .
(20) But this was still very much hero worship, northern-style: the 100 or so Werder Bremen fans stood in orderly rows in the Bremen airport arrivals hall in early September, strictly behind the barrier, of course, and many of them carried smiles that were equal parts genuine, childlike excitement and self-deprecating mocking of their own genuine, childlike excitement, a way to cope with the sense of wonderment: are we really here?