mosque

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Just outside the mosque is a miniature temple, which marks the spot where

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  1. noun A Muslim house of worship.

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  • The outside of the mosque is adorned with towers, vastly high, gilt on the top, from whence the imaums (sic) call the people to prayers. —  Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
  • Worshippers denied the mosque was a military outpost. —  Kentucky.com: Homepage
  • The strike set off a lengthy series of secondary explosions and a large fire, caused by the munitions stockpiled in the mosque, continued the statement, adding that the mosque was also used as a center of Hamas operations, as a meeting place for its terror operatives and a staging ground for attacks. —  Yoni the Blogger
  • Vigneron's trip to the mosque is at least the third by an Archbishop of Detroit. —  Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
  • Palo Alto High School junior Shameem Jamil believes that the mosque is a great addition to Palo Alto and does not believe the mosque will affect her family's Masjid. —  Paly Voice
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  1. French mosquée, from Old French mousquaie, from Old Italian moschea, from moscheta, from Old Spanish mezquita, from Arabic masjid; see masjid.

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  1. Also mosk, and formerly mosch, mosche, moschee, muskey (also mesquit, meskit, meskito, meschit, mesquita, mosquita, muskethe, etc: see mesquit); from French mosquée = Italian moschea (later G. moschee), from Spanish mezquita = Portuguese mesquita, from Arabic masjid, masjad, a temple, from sajada, prostrate oneself, pray.
 

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