The word "mosque" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to a place of worship for Muslims. For example, "The local mosque was filled with people who had come to pray."
After a period of deceptive calm following the suppression of the 1979 siege of the Mecca mosque by the radical Islamic cell of Juhayman al-Otaibi, a violent Islamist opposition made its presence felt.
In 2010, the media closely covered the Islamophobic resistance to the construction of the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" in New York City, and the Southern Poverty Law Center documented a 50% increase in hate crimes against apparent Muslims.
"The film will be a personal quest to explore the mosque and its community, and to gain a rare insight into the lives of both".
Hotel and flight deals can cost more than £3,000, and every year hundreds fall victim to a variety of scams: paying for a five-star hotel near the Masjid al-Haram (the mosque that is a focal point of the event), but getting a tiny room far from the centre of Mecca; visas and flight tickets not arriving; and in extreme cases agents disappearing with their money.
We had been showered on since leaving the 10th-century Moorish mosque in Almonastar and sloshed over the hills till we arrived at a posada in Alájar several hours later.
The FSA fighters were able to access new districts in Aleppo yesterday – Ashrafiyeh, al-Rahman mosque and al-Sabeel.
He said morning prayers at the mosque were usually attended by 100 to 200 people on Fridays.
But another Houston mosque was a target for arsonists in 2011, while in 2006, residents in one suburb mobilised against a plan to build a mosque, claiming that it could become a breeding ground for terrorists and prompting a local farmer to hold pig races on Fridays, a holy day for Muslims.
People come with food, blankets, pillows and children's milk and leave them at the front door of the mosque.
As reported last year, the view from the open courtyard in the centre of the mosque is now choked with cranes, jostling for position with minarets and towers; but this year there is a new addition just metres from the Kaaba itself.
"Of course we're worried, we're worried about the future of our children, but we hope it will be OK," said a Tatar woman named Sabina, who was sitting with her two daughters outside the mosque.
