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mosque

/mosk, mawsk/US // mɒsk, mɔsk //UK // (mɒsk) //

清真寺,真理寺,寺庙

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a Muslim temple or place of public worship.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Although the elderly can still worship, police bar children from entering the mosque.

  • Last year, his regime converted the historic Hagia Sophia monument that was serving as a museum into a mosque.

  • Celebratory gunfire sounded over the mostly dark neighborhoods, a few horns blared from cars braving streets pocked with shell craters, and praise for God rang out from mosques around Gaza City.

  • In internal posts obtained by BuzzFeed, Facebook reportedly said the mistake had been made by an artificial intelligence system that mistook posts mentioning the mosque for references to a banned terror group.

  • The mosque in Jerusalem had been the site of recent Palestinian protests amid high communal tensions in the city.

  • “Iran knows who lives in each and every house here,” one man in a Turbat mosque tells me.

  • Riots broke out in 1994, after Iranian authorities replaced a Sunni mosque in Mashad with a development project.

  • “Palmyra, Krac des Chevaliers, Afamia, the Umayyad Mosque—I took them everywhere,” he said, speaking to me in English.

  • Similarly, we never failed to recognize our relatives or friends if we came across them in the mall or mosque.

  • She then expressed her annoyance that the leader of the Oklahoma mosque where Nolan had worshipped refused to appear on her show.

  • The building, a mosque-like structure of considerable size, was situated in the midst of a grove of mango trees.

  • He entered the Mosque alone; his wives remaining seated in their carriages outside.

  • It was a mosque that stood in a garden, bounded by a high and stout wall and protected by jungle and mud hovels.

  • Among the other buildings, the Mosque Aurang Zeb is most worthy of the notice of travellers.

  • Fattipoor Sikri stands upon a hill; the fortress walls, the mosque, and other buildings can therefore be seen from a distance.