mosque

Example Sentences

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The water washed away some two dozen low-lying houses, a church and part of a mosque.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

In nearby Bon Oe village, the quake caused a mosque to collapse onto worshippers gathered for the noon prayer on the last Friday of Ramadan, killing many.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

But most of the communal prayer events were canceled, with only one large gathering held in the Grand Mosalla mosque.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

"The occupier, under the pretext of security and for its own interests, has closed the mosque," cleric Ayman Abu Najm, who had come from Beit Hanina, a Palestinian neighbourhood in east Jerusalem, said.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

"Maybe he knows your grandparents. After all, they worship at the same mosque, right?"

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman