Sahfe's Shihab al-Din mosque was established as a triumphalist mosque adjacent to the Church of the Annunciation in the lead up to the millennium.
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It was established in 971 as a mosque and then expanded into a university.
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They became a focus for intellectual life and could be seen as an implicit rival to the mosque as a meeting place.
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He said that as the mosque's executive director, he became aware of accounting irregularities which he contends are evidence of embezzlement and tax evasion.
Continue on to the Corniche to stroll with locals as the sun sets, and wander over to watch the last rays catch the imposing Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque, probably Abu Dhabi's most important landmark, known as the "Grand Mosque" to locals, and whose lavish buildings materials hark from as far afield as Greece, Italy, Morocco and Germany.
He described the mosque as being very large with a large wall around it.
The community have been really helpful, as has the mosque and the family.
Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei - who joined worshippers in Giza - was swiftly moved inside the gates of the mosque as clashes began.
At the suggestion of the Turkish side, it now seems he'll make a short visit to a mosque as a gesture of reconciliation.
Jordan's ministry of religious affairs said the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has called on Muslims to visit the mosque as a way of establishing a Palestinian presence in the city.
She and her taxi driver husband had enrolled Yaseen in advanced classes at their local mosque as they wanted him to become Hafiz - an Islamic term for someone who memorises the Koran.
What is more, if the mosque serves as a magnet for new Muslim residents, depressed housing prices could rebound.
Al-Assad and other top officials, including Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi, celebrated the birth of the Prophet Mohammed on Thursday inside a Damascus mosque, as shown live on state television.
Mohamed Mohamud Turyare, a 22-year-old journalist webmaster and producer for Shabelle Media Network, was shot several times in the chest and stomach as he left a mosque in Mogadishu on 21 October.
Zeynep's work on the Sakiri Mosque in Istanbul gained much attention as it made her the first woman in Turkey to design a mosque.
This time, as he was leaving the mosque, he encountered a dozen or so news photographers who had gathered to document his visit.
Both groups have been drawing public attention to plans to build a massive mosque complex known as the Center for Islam in Europe-Munich (ZIE-M).
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He was shot dead on 16 September by unidentified gunmen as he was leaving the mosque after evening prayers in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Attackers have shot dead an imam and two of his male relations, as they drove to a mosque in the Russian North Caucasus region of Dagestan.
It has been inaccurately described as the "ground zero mosque, " a ridiculous term considering it will be two blocks away from the site of the fallen World Trade Center towers.
The cleric recently told Al Jazeera's Arabic-language Web site that he met Hasan nine years ago while serving as an imam at a mosque in the Washington, D.
If, on the other hand, it is closer to your core functions as a synagogue or a mosque or a church, then there may be more leeway for you to hire somebody who is a believer of that particular religious faith.
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But Kuby said Afzali was helping "absolutely frantic" federal agents find Zazi, who had attended his Queens mosque with his family as a teenager.
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Just as architects' drawings of the mosque emerged, Britain's largest church, the Kingsway International Christian Centre in nearby Hackney, was told it would have to make way for the Olympic village.
Randy Hamud, an attorney for Al-Mohdar, has said the students lived in San Diego for three years and knew two of the hijackers -- Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar -- only as casual acquaintances through a local mosque.
The streets leading up to and around the Grand Mosque -- known as the Haram -- are overflowing with pilgrims in their ihram -- and our car has a hard time navigating the streets without sideswiping one or another pilgrim.
Outside the Fatih mosque, children play football as the shadows lengthen and the hot day cools.
Local residents were quoted as saying that they had heard on mosque loudspeakers announcements that Mullah Nazir was dead.
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At a city centre mosque we were welcomed inside as followers sat around a white cloth, gently swaying to the prayers.
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