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  • A mehrab and a room were constructed as part of the mosque today and three to four hundred persons are still present at the site till last reports came in.

    Majority community forces construction of mosque in Mendhar 2007

  • The interior of the mosque has chaste decoration in the mehrab chamber that opened in to equally well decorated side aisles.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

  • And finally, the designs for accrenilation and the mehrab were inspired by a mosque in London, while the two-story orientation of the mosque is a characteristic of mosques in India.

    Paly Voice 2009

  • There is also mehrab, the niche where the Imam, or priest, leads the prayer and crenellation, which is the decoration on the top of the mosque.

    Paly Voice 2009

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