Sentence examples for prayer toward from inspiring English sources

Refugees note that Muslims first bowed in prayer toward Al Aksa mosque, which is mentioned in the Koran.

One of Mr. Suyasa's sons, Indrayana, sat on the ground nearby, dressed in ritual gold, holding his hands in prayer toward his father.

"We have always prayed toward Jerusalem and have never directed any prayer toward Aizariya and Abu Dis," Mr. Barak said today, mentioning two of the Palestinian villages.

We changed into ihram, offered a prayer toward Mecca, and boarded the plane to Jeddah, where we would land at the Hajj terminal, dominated by a series of white, Teflon-coated fibreglass tents, which opens annually for the pilgrimage season.

(On "Killa Cam," from the 2004 album "Purple Haze," he enlisted an opera singer named Steven Santiago to belt his name like a prayer toward the east. Their live performance of the duet at the Apollo Theatre remains a surreal moment of flip-phone-era history).

The direction of prayer toward Mecca takes a line northward in the Indian Ocean and so would have been a link between maritime and Islamic identity on a daily basis while also providing a context in which such an identity was embodied through routine religious practice.

Muslims wanted G.P.S. devices to orient their prayers toward Mecca.

"Le Corsaire" comes awkwardly close to mocking Muslim prayers toward Mecca.

Five times a day, Gambian Muslims kneel along lines duct-taped onto the mosque's rugs to direct their prayers toward Mecca.

Wherever they are, Muslims direct their prayers toward the Kaaba, the black cube at the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, which Muslims also circumambulate when they make their major pilgrimage.

They'd rather be in the studio meditating or chanting loving prayers toward all the candidates.