Sentence examples for floating mosques from inspiring English sources
Some "floating" mosques were located above shops.
One is the "floating mosque", Masjid Tengku Tengah Zaharah, a simple but spectacular combination of modern and Moorish design on a platform surrounded by a lake; it lies 4km south of the state capital, and close to the sea; the other is Kampong Ladang, where smithies still forge the Malay keris, or dagger.
Viewing the city through Bab Rasif, one of the entrance gates, you can see the green-and-white tower of a mosque floating above a sea of satellite dishes.
Babies screaming, children playing, cicadas, chickens, songbirds, cows, televisions and, floating above it all, the call to prayer at a distant mosque.
Our conversation stopped as the call to prayer issued one by one from the neighborhood mosques and floated out on the still air of the dusty plateau.
Then try a fresh fish sandwich from one of the gaudy floating boat restaurants that bob in the water under the shadow of the mosque.
Unlike the Hagia Sophia, the mosque's immense central dome is not divided by galleries or even aisles, so the effect of a floating cupola is even more dramatic.
Thus the floating islands.
