Sentence examples for mosques functioning from inspiring English sources
And with mosques functioning as the local centers of Islamic faith on one front, and the object of renewed Western suspicion on another, it is undeniable that mosques, tragically, help keep alive the memory of the divide of civilizations that once rent the world irreparably in two.
Veterans of the war also returned to their homelands in the 1990's, to try to undermine or overthrow their own governments, and to attract new members in radicalized mosques that functioned as a shadow consulates for the bin Laden organization.
My sense is that the long-term recipe for financial stability for a mosque will depend a lot more on how the mosque functions than on how it raises money.
The mosque also functioned as a court of justice until the introduction of secular law into many Islamic countries in modern times.
The strength and influence of the organization is due to several factors: The first is that every village in the country has a mosque which functions as the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In Bakhchysarai, a short distance from the Khan's Palace, with its still functioning mosque, there was a common grave for a hundred and seventy-two Red Army soldiers.
Prime among these institutions are the office of the Supreme Religious Guide, filled by the charismatic Ayatollah Khomeini, and the network of mosques that have functioned as a power base for the clergy since the first days of the uprising against the Shah.
After the Soviet war in Afghanistan ended in 1989, the mosque continued to function as a center for radical Islamic learning and housed several thousand male and female students in adjacent seminaries.
But mosques have not been particularly good at functioning in that way, and they too have to begin to make changes if they are to hold on to the next generation.
They may have minarets, although they do not normally function as mosques.
It functioned as a mosque, a place of quiet contemplation devoted to genital slang rendered in neon.
