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The Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, regularly used for Congregational prayer. [1] [2]A congregational mosque or Friday mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد جَامِع, masjid jāmi‘, or simply: جَامِع, jāmi‘; Turkish: Cami), or sometimes great mosque or grand mosque (Arabic: جامع كبير, jāmi‘ kabir; Turkish: Ulu Cami), is a mosque for hosting the Friday noon prayers ...
The word 'mosque' entered the English language from the French word mosquée, probably derived from Italian moschea (a variant of Italian moscheta), from either Middle Armenian մզկիթ (mzkit), Medieval Greek: μασγίδιον (masgídion), or Spanish mezquita, from Arabic: مسجد, romanized: masjid (meaning "site of prostration (in prayer)" and hence a place of worship), either from ...
Arabic prosody. Bayt; Ṭawīl; ... Other major early mosques, such as the Great Mosque of Kufa, [9] the Great Mosque of Damascus (early 8th century), ...
The "Al-Aqsa Mosque" translates into "the Farthest Mosque" in English. Extract of an 1841 British map showing both "Mesjid el-Aksa" and "Jami el-Aksa" The Arabic term "Al-Aqsa Mosque" is the translation of both al-Masjid al-Aqṣā ( ٱلْمَسْجِد ٱلْأَقْصَىٰ ) and Jāmiʿ al-Aqṣā ( جَامِع ٱلْأَقْصَىٰ ...
Imam (/ ɪ ˈ m ɑː m /; Arabic: إمام, imām; pl.: أئمة, a'immah) is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Muslims, Imam is most commonly used as the title of a prayer leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may lead Islamic prayers, serve as community leaders, and provide religious guidance. Thus for Sunnis, anyone can study ...
Jamia (جامعة jāmi‘a; also jamiya[h]) is the Arabic word for gathering.It can also refer to a book Al-Jami'a or a mosque, or more generally, a university.In the latter sense it refers in official usage to a modern university, based on the Western model, as opposed to the medieval madrasa. [1]
a niche in the wall of all mosques, indicating the direction of prayer Millah (مِلَّة) In Arabic, millah means "religion," but it has only been used to refer to religions other than Islam, which is din. Millet (see Millah) (Turkish word also meaning a nation, community, or a people).
The Great Mosque is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the Gaza Strip and throughout its history it was Philistine temple, a Byzantine church, an Arab mosque, a Crusader cathedral and was finally transformed back to a mosque by the Mamluks.