Bleached mosques like dwarf cave-stalagmites, Smooth silver-bouldered biyaban And sevenfold velvet of white nights Vied with the singing caravan To make her pathway plain.
The principal buildings are mainly composed of mosques and sepulchres (for Koom is second only to Meshéd in sanctity), but most of them are in a state of decay and dilapidation.
Shiráz has fifteen large mosques and several smaller ones, but the people are as fanatical as those of Teherán are the reverse.
Then, unable to rest, he mounted the hill of the citadel and saw an auspicious golden glow over the mosques and houses of Cairo, illumining even the desert and the Pyramids.
Every one has had the opportunity of seeing specimens from the workshops which were still flourishing in the last century in Asia Minor, and the productions of which adorn the palaces and the richest mosques of the Mussulman world.
There are a number of mosques in the town, and the Mahommedans are the dominant power, but the Yoruba, who constitute the bulk of the people, are pagans.
Many other splendid mosques and royal tombs adorned the city, and justified the Turkish proverb, "See all the world; but see Konia.
At one time the mosques were covered with mosaics, analogous to those of Ravenna, depicting scenes from the life of Mahomet and the prophets.
There are other mosques and public gardens of interest, and the traveler should not forget to visit one or more of the shawl manufactories, where the famous Indian article is woven by hand in a most primitive loom worked by two persons.
Not even one foundation of its three hundred mosques can be found to-day.
We could not but look critically at the Moor who was engaged for the moment with our guide, for he was a good representative of that proud race which in its glory built palaces like the Alhambra, and such mosques as that at Cordova.
The attack was made by Moslems after leaving the mosques after the noon hour of prayer, and it was simultaneous all over the city.
Mosques are plenty, churches are plenty, graveyards are plenty, but morals and whiskey are scarce.
At Constantinople, at Pisa, in the cities of Spain, are great mosques and cathedrals, whose grandest columns came from the temples and palaces of Ephesus, and yet one has only to scratch the ground here to match them.
Ye know, also, that whenmosques are builded, asses bear the stones and the cement, and cross the sacred threshold.
Against all who bowed the knee in the mosques of the false prophet their lives were vowed, and it is but the barest justice to them to record that on the altar of this their faith these were ungrudgingly poured forth.
The old mosques of the city, of which I entered two, and looked at many, are a thousand times more beautiful.
On account of the same holy season, the Royal palaces and mosques are shut; and though the Valley of the Sweet Waters is there, no one goes to walk; the people remaining asleep all day, and passing the night in feasting and carousing.
They still occasionally beat a man for going into a mosque, but this is almost the only sign of ferocious vitality left in the Turk of the Mediterranean coast, and strangers may enter scores of mosques without molestation.
As the Pontiff of Mussulmans passed into the mosques a shower of petitions was flung from the steps where the crowd was collected, and over the heads of the gendarmes in brown.
Some few of the Moors endeavored to make head against the tide, but most fled into the houses and mosques for protection.
The conqueror allowed the sons of Almamon {89} to go and reign at Valencia, and engaged by an oath to preserve the mosques from destruction.
At noon, on Friday, all business is suspended, the mosques are filled, and prayers are read by the appointed officers, accompanied by the prostrations of the people.
Friday is their day of rest, which commences on the preceding evening, when the illuminated minarets and colonnades of the mosquesgive to their cities the appearance of a festival.
I asked him; "from thence it is very far to Mekka; there are no mosques and public baths, no Mussulman food; how wilt thou live there?
Kiptchak itself is a place of considerable importance, inhabited by an OEzbeg tribe of the same name, and possesses several mosques and colleges.
Nur is a larger place, where there are many mosques and caravanserais, and it is the spot most frequented by pilgrims of the whole neighbourhood.
Besides the above, mosques and other buildings are mentioned.
Three hundred and sixty mosques once reared their proud heads, and eighty thousand inhabitants poured into the field, an army which accomplished the subjugation of El Yemen.
Mosques and minarets are conspicuous in every street.
The Mohammedans who created the mosquesshowed marvellous taste.
In the bazaars is the passion for gain, in the alleys of music and light is the passion for pleasure, in the mosques is the passion for prayer that connects the souls of men with the unseen but strongly felt world.
In their churches there always seems to me to be a cold and austere atmosphere, far different from the atmosphere of the mosques or of any Roman Catholic church.
The dome of the tomb of Kaitbay is of stone, sculptured all over with an arabesque pattern; and there are several other domes in different mosques at Cairo equally richly ornamented.
In ancient times the mosques consisted merely of large open courts, surrounded by arcades; and frequently, on that side of the court which stood nearest to Mecca, this arcade was double.
But the gateways and main features of the mosques are arched.
The tiles, which are evidently of the same origin as those of Persia and Turkey, are chiefly to be found in the ruined mosques and tombs of the old Mussulman dynasties; but the industry still survives at the little towns of Saidpur and Bubri.
The Jami masjid, begun by Ali Adil Shah, 1567, but never quite completed, is one of the finestmosques in India.
It differs from all the great mosques in India in having the whole central area covered over as in the great mosque at Cordova--what in others would be an open court being roofed by sixty-three small domes.
Shoes are invariably removed on entering mosques or other holy places.
The elevations of the mosques have usually been studiously arranged with a view to express at once the structural arrangements, and to avoid monotony of outline by the varied elevation of each division.
Of the Sharki dynasty of Jaunpur only three great mosques in that city have come down to us, with several tombs.
The cloisters surrounding the open courts of the mosques and the galleries within are closely allied to the Hindu style, being constructed with short square pillars having bracket capitals supporting lintels and roof of flat slabs.
The facades of the mosques became more ornamental, were often encrusted with marble, and usually adorned with rich and beautiful sculpture.
The capital was first at Gulbarga, and was afterwards removed to Bidar, both which places still possess magnificent palaces and mosques in ruins.
The maze of houses and the mosques are veiled in a light blue haze, just as if the city, like the women, had to wear the yachmak, or head-covering.
Inside the mosques the cooing of many pigeons adds to the rhythmic murmur of the prayers.
Mosques built by royalty may have two minarets, others only one.
Berchem has suggested that it may have been surmounted by a gable, like the mosques at Damascus and Diyârbekr.
In one respect Abû Dulaf differs from all other mosques built with piers; the arcades of the south riwâq, instead of lying parallel to the qiblah wall, are placed at right angles to it.
It is certain that all the mosques of the early Abbâsid period, of which the ruins are preserved, must have been roofed with wood.
The plan of the first mosques in Syria was partly determined by the fact that they were erected on the site of Christian churches.
The Tilimsân mosques are considerably later in date and are built with piers, with the exception of Sidi al-Ḥalwi, where both piers and columns are used.
In the Ayyûbid mosques at Ḥasan Kaif, all of which are dated in the first half of the fifteenth century, no suggestion of an early plan can be traced.
Neither of these mosques has a ṣaḥn, the great palace enclosure in which they stand serving them as court.
With the exception of the small palace chapels at Balkuwârâ, all the Mesopotamian mosques were laid out on the same plan, but they differed in details of construction.
I have been in all the principal mosques by the virtue of a firman: this is a favor rarely permitted to Infidels, but the ambassador's departure obtained it for us.
Some of these towers are richly decorated with arabesque ornamentation,' and glitter in the sun with colour and gilding, but the majority of the mosques are as plain and simple in design as shown in our large sketch.
There are the mosques to be entered barefoot, and the native courts of law to be seen.
A fewmosques with low minarets may be seen, having stone steps up one side, by which the priest ascends for the call to prayer.
There are two mosques of pretty architecture, with courses of dark red stone from Keneh, and white Kosseir limestone; there are also diaper and fretwork patterns; the pillars are similarly decorated and are quaint and picturesque.
The minarets and pillars of the old mosques looked down on a strange scene that day.
The mosques have neither domes nor minarets--a sign of the rigid Wahabi influence which swept over Arabia.
There is also wanting in the town the feature which makes most Moslem towns picturesque, namely the minaret; the mosques of the Ibadhuyah sect being squalid and uninteresting.
These mosques and the towers of the richer pearl merchants show some decided architectural features, having arches of the Saracenic order, with fretwork of plaster and quaint stucco patterns.
Church decoration is an abomination to the Wahabi; therefore, in Bahrein the mosques are little better than barns with low minarets, for the very tall ones of other Mohammedan sects are forbidden.
The wounded, who could not sally to procure it, were almost destitute, while the unhappy prisoners shut up in the mosques were reduced to frightful extremities.
They were interred with great solemnity in the mosques of Moclin, which had been purified and consecrated to Christian worship.
The type from which the modern east has evolved so many fine mosques and churches was unknown in Chaldæa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mosques" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
