Sentence examples for sacred mosque from inspiring English sources

Modest gains in security near the end of 2005, for example, were obliterated a few months later when the bombing of a sacred mosque in Samarra set off nearly a year of sectarian killings.

The stream of accounts began when Sabica Khan, a Pakistani woman, wrote on Facebook about how she was assaulted next to the Kaaba, the building at the centre of Islam's most sacred mosque, in Saudi Arabia.

This nocturnal journey is described in Qur'an 17:1 as being from "the sacred mosque" (al-masjid al-haram, ie the sanctuary of Mecca) to "the furthest mosque" (al-masjid al-aqsa, ie the sanctuary of Jerusalem, also known as Temple Mount).

Earlier in the day, forces loyal to Mr. Sadr said he had promised to "turn over the keys" of the sacred mosque to aides to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, building optimism about an imminent end to the two-week standoff between Mr. Sadr's guerrillas, American forces and the interim Iraqi government.

Did he defile a sacred Mosque?

It dwarfs the Kaaba [a holy structure within Islam's most sacred mosque, Al-Masjid al-Haram].

He and his company, the Saudi Binladin Group, won coveted contracts to restore and expand the sacred mosques at Mecca and Medina.

Now, officials said, a new consensus in the Bush administration holds that Dr. Allawi has the legitimacy to order a military action against Mr. Sadr and that Dr. Allawi can draw on the hostility of Najaf residents over Mr. Sadr's use of the Imam Ali shrine, one of the most sacred mosques in the Islamic world, as a military base and arms depot.

Iraqi government officials said the group apparently was preparing to storm Najaf, a holy city dear to Shiite Islam, occupy the sacred Imam Ali mosque and assassinate the religious hierarchy there, including the revered leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, during a Shiite holiday when many pilgrims visit.

Two millennia of soldiers and shepherds and sultans had travelled on this path, and my journey passed by reminders of that history – sacred tombs, mosques, hammams, bridges, ruins and caravansary, all of whose stones held as many stories as they did dust.

After fortifying the sacred Imam Ali mosque, he swore to fight to the death against the infidel and his local stooges.