Sentence examples for mosque was struck from inspiring English sources

The target, situated near a mosque, was struck just as people were ending evening prayers.

The damage to Salé was considerable; a wall from the Almohad Caliphate was severely damaged, and the Great Mosque of Salé was struck by six cannonballs.

However, at Friday prayers at the nearby Antar mosque a less conciliatory tone was struck.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs mosque was hit by three successive air strikes at about 2 30am, residents told VICE News, tearing the walls off surrounding apartment buildings.

One young man was shot en route to the mosque; an older man had gone outside to smoke but was struck by a bullet.

American military officials acknowledged that the mosque had been struck in error, but a senior American military official was not able to give the precise number of dead.

The incident over the mosque near Fredericksburg was striking in its bluntness.

On April 24th the 11th-century minaret of the Umayyad mosque in Aleppo, Syria's battered second city, collapsed after being struck by government tank fire.

The mosque was a good place to strike up conversations; people always wanted to know where I was from, and when they learned I wasn't Muslim they made a point of saying that the mosque was open to everybody.

The issue of striking at mosques is so sensitive in the Arab world that the American military later issued a statement saying that the strike on the Khulafah mosque was unavoidable and that precision munitions merely knocked down a minaret.

Three years later, the Ganting Grand Mosque was one of 608 places of worship severely damaged when another large earthquake struck the area on 30 September 2009.