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Mosque
"Masjid" and "Musjid" redirect here. For the villages in Iran, see Masjed, Iran (disambiguation). For the racehorse, see Musjid (horse).
The Great Mosque of Mecca during the Hajj of 2009.
A nomad's mosque orientated towards Mecca, 2013.
A mosque (/mɒsk/; from Arabic: مسجد, translit. masjid) is a place of worship for followers of Islam.
There are strict and detailed requirements in Sunni jurisprudence (fiqh) for a place of worship to be considered a mosque, with places that do not meet these requirements regarded as musallas.[1] There are stringent restrictions on the uses of the area formally demarcated as the mosque (which is often a small portion of the larger complex), and, in the Islamic Sharia law, after an area is formally designated as a mosque, it remains so until the Last Day.[1]
Many mosques have elaborate domes, minarets, and prayer halls, in varying styles of architecture. Mosques originated on the Arabian Peninsula, but are now found in all inhabited continents. The mosque serves as a place where Muslims can come together for salat (صلاة ṣalāt, meaning "prayer") as well as a center for information, education, social welfare, and dispute settlement.[2] The imamleads the congregation in prayer.
EtymologyEdit
The word entered English from a French word that probably derived from Italian moschea, a variant of Italian moscheta, from either Middle Armenian մզկիթ (mzkit‘) or Medieval Greekμασγίδιον (masgídion) or Spanish mezquita, from the Arabic مسجد masjad meaning "place of worship" or "prostration in prayer", either from Nabataean masgĕdhā́ or from Arabic سجد sajada meaning "to bow down in prayer", probably ultimately from Aramaic sĕghēdh.[3]
HistoryEdit
The first mosque in the world is often considered to be the area around the Kaaba in Mecca now known as the Masjid al-Haram.[4]Since as early as 638 AD, the Masjid al-Haram has been expanded on several occasions to accommodate the increasing number of Muslims who either live in the area or make the annual pilgrimage known as hajj to the city.[5] Others regard the first mosque in history to be the Quba Mosque in present-day Medina since it was the first structure built by Muhammad upon his emigration from Meccain 622.[6]

The Great Mosque of Kairouan, in Tunisia, is the oldest mosque in the Muslim West.
The Islamic Prophet Muhammad went on to establish another mosque in Medina, which is now known as the Masjid an-Nabawi, or the Prophet's Mosque. Built on the site of his home, Muhammad participated in the construction of the mosque himself and helped pioneer the concept of the mosque as the focal point of the Islamic city.[7] The Masjid al-Nabawi introduced some of the features still common in today's mosques, including the niche at the front of the prayer space known as the mihrab and the tiered pulpit called the minbar.[8] The Masjid al-Nabawi was also constructed with a large courtyard, a motif common among mosques built since then.[7]response / report this review -
16 March 2017
Nice musque.
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