Sentence examples for niche facing from inspiring English sources

The mihrab is a niche facing Mecca that symbolizes the entry into paradise.

Minarets, usually placed at the corner of the miḥrāb (prayer niche facing Mecca), were square and only sparsely decorated.

It is built around a large, open, marble-floored court, with a polychrome mihrab (prayer niche facing Mecca) and a tall, square minaret.

KHOTAN, China — The grand mosque that draws thousands of Muslims each week in this oasis town has all the usual trappings of piety: dusty wool carpets on which to kneel in prayer, a row of turbans and skullcaps for men without headwear, a wall niche facing the holy city of Mecca in the Arabian desert.

In 1997 Torah scrolls were brought in, the prayer niche facing Mecca was covered, and the site was declared a synagogue and yeshiva.

Despite the miniboom in indoor mapping, Vikrant Gandhi, an analyst with Frost & Sullivan, said the niche faced challenges.

He pointed to a large niche that faced north, toward visitors as they approach.

More generally, almost any organism that evolves into a new niche will face competition from other species that evolved before, much the same way those species face competition among themselves and also intra-specific competition.

With the loss of readers and advertisers to the Internet, many of the niche publications were facing high overhead and expenses compared with the profit they were yielding.

The cooperative is small but successful: it has sold out of products until next year.Even such niche-marketers face a long, rough road.

Yet there's no denying that this cute vanlet is a niche vehicle that faces stiff competition, not just from larger vans, but from wagons and from compact crossovers like the Honda CR-V or Toyota RAV4.