Sentence examples for stone mosque from inspiring English sources

He passed a stone mosque, embedded with turquoise, that dated from the Seljuk Empire, and offered an assessment of Sadreddin Konevi, a religious thinker buried there.

Great Mosque of Damascus, also called Umayyad Mosque, the earliest surviving stone mosque, built between ad 705 and 715 by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walīd I.

Walid Khalidi describes the remains of Lajjun: Only the white stone mosque, one village mill, the village health center, and a few partially destroyed houses remain on the site.

Smaller towns were largely the latter, with perhaps a single stone mosque or some stone tombs.

Stone mosques and tombs were featured early, with explicit maritime building following.

The original structure was built in 1924 by Syrian and Lebanese farmers who settled out there after the Homestead Act, and now stands this stone 20-by-20-foot 20-by-20-foot 20-by-20-foot 20-by-20-footcorner — literally a little mosque on the prairie.

In the scope of this paper, it is aimed to compare the effects of near and far-fault earthquakes on the seismic responses (amplitude, spectrum effect, stress) of a relatively complex historical stone masonry mosque (125-years old Kurtulus Mosque, Gaziantep-Turkey) through soil-structure-interaction (SSI) analysis as well as fixed base solution.

See article.Buddhists stoned a mosque in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, forcing it to close.

By late afternoon, the crowd had grown into an angry mob of hundreds, stoning the mosque.

Everywhere he shows crowds surging and protest banners held aloft against a backdrop of stones and mosques.

In his own writing he relates joyfully how as a 12-year-old boy he led a gang of schoolmates to stone his village mosque and smash its windows and tiles, in the aftermath of Hindu-Muslim riots.