mosque

He came from a modest background: His father was a schoolteacher and an imam at a local mosque.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

After sunrise, villagers in Qusra, near the city of Nablus, walked through the scorched remains of the Al-Rahma mosque, broken tiles littering the ground, videos showed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

On the hill above them, the local mosque was calling on people to help the family trapped by the settlers.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

"One of the storage facilities had been established inside a mosque in the northern Gaza Strip," it added, saying advance warnings were given to civilians.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

But her voice gets a little wobbly when she asks, "Hmm...how're we going to find the mosque?"

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

Local outlets say mosques have been receiving abusive phone calls and emails, some of which has prompted anti-hate groups to organise counter protests calling for no hate.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Ms. Smith travels through Bosnia and Kosovo and sees how Mr. Erdoğan’s government has renovated mosques and opened Turkish-language schools there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

He told me that during his childhood, Eid prayers were sometimes held in hotel ballrooms because mosques were too few and too small.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The sector, which already weathered the closure of mosques and shrines in the pandemic, is a rare type of tourism in a country reeling from decades of conflicts.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

The same message played from loudspeakers perched atop mosques, and on the radio, which was now known as the Voice of Shari’a.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini