mosque
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- noun
- /mɑːsk/
:
mezquita
- Every Friday, the faithful come to pray at the mosque in our neighborhood.
- go to a mosque
- imam at a mosque
- worshipers at a mosque
Yeah, a Christian Church and a mosque all together.
- Yeah, a Christian Church and a mosque all together.
- She's just gone into a mosque in Algiers to pray.
- If it's OK, You've mentioned the AL Aqsa Mosque a couple of times.
- And yet the places of worship, churches and mosques were packed.
- Again, no ashram, no church, no synagogue, no mosque owns it.
- He uses his religiously derived authority to gain control over mosques, schools and the courts.
- New Zealand, after the Christchurch massacres at the mosques overnight, they took care of business.
- So our first priorities then was to patrol and protect local mosques, right?
- The word Masjid, which is mosque in Arabic means place of subdued, place of prostration.
- Then across the street on the other side is Nation Islam Mosque.
- Because I mean, a big part of what the church and the temple and the mosque did was exactly that.
Examples
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The reverie was broken by the call to prayer from the mosque of East Jerusalem.
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And I think that's the building, the mosque in New York.
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I met her with her mother at the mosque last Friday.
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Got a story to cover at the mosque.
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There was a lecture at the mosque on Friday.
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There is a Muslim mosque on the temple site to this day.
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Well, right now we're going to the Great Mosque in, in Jenny in Mali.
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Is your organization also reaching out to mosques and asking them, in fact, demanding of them?
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That pile of rubble used to be a mosque.
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So one of the examples we gave was Cambridge Central Mosque, which is Europe's first eco mosque.
Synonyms
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A place where people meet to pray or have religious services
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A building where people gather for prayer or religious services
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3.1
A building where people gather to pray, like a church
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A building where Muslims go to pray
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A building where people meet to pray together
A building where Muslims pray
How Big
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word mosque comes from the Arabic masjid, which means 'place of kneeling' and comes from a word for kneeling or bowing in prayer, so a mosque is a building where Muslims gather to pray.