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	Lancashire Mosques - Sacred Places
		The first mosque on the site of today's structure was supported by the trunks of standing palm trees that had grown there, and the Prophet himself worked on its construction.
		The present mosque was built by the Mamluks, in particular by the Sultans Baybars and Qa'it Bey, and the Ottomans, with additions made in this century by King Abd al-Aziz Al Saud.
		For the sacred mosque, ai-Masjid al-Haram, Sinan created a colonnade of 892 columns of marble and stone over which were set 500 arches and cupolas.
	www.lancashiremosques.com /faith_sacred_places.asp (3896 words)

	MOSQUE IN ISLAM
		The simples elements of the prophetic mosque were a court where the worshippers could gather, porches to shelter the worshippers, the pulpit for the preacher to stand in, and the recess a mihrab which indicated the Qiblah or the direction pointing out the Kabah towards which a Muslim turns his face during his prayer.
		The three mosques that have a greater degree of sanctity because of their historical and religious associations are the Masjid-el-Haram in Mecca, Prophet’s mosques in Medina and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
		There are all sacred places inspired by a religious purpose, but may differ in their degree of sacredness especially when compared to the mosques, as the mosques are purely meant for the worship of God.
	www.nedians.8m.com /mosque.htm (6211 words)

	SACRED - Definition
		Poet and saint to thee alone were given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven.
		{Sacred bean} (Bot.), a seed of the Oriental lotus ({Nelumbo speciosa} or {Nelumbium speciosum}), a plant resembling a water lily; also, the plant itself.
		Several large species inhabit the Nile and were considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians; especially {Mormyrus oxyrhynchus}.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/sacred (435 words)

	Islam and Hadith (Sunnah of the Prophet) - A Manual of Hadith: Chapter 5: The Mosque
		The Suffah of the Prophet's Mosque has left its legacy in the form of the maktab or madrisah (the school)--considered a necessary adjunct to the mosque to this day--and the library which was generally attached to the more important mosques by Muslims in all ages.
		The mosque, being the essential meeting-place of Muslims five times a day, became also a general centre where all important matters relating to the welfare of the Muslim community were transacted and where Muslims gathered together on all important occasions.
		The mosque was thus a place where everything which related to the good of the individual or the community was to be learned or taught, and hence it became the cultural centre of Islâm.
	www.islamic-paths.org /Home/English/Hadith/Book/Manual/Chapter_05.htm (3866 words)

	Between Grammar And Rhetoric (Balaghah): A Look At Qur'an 2:217
		To fight in the Sacred Mosque was held to be as heinous as to fight during the Sacred Months, and so the question could pertain to both.
		And Rāzī's attempt to equate fighting during the Sacred Months with disbelief in God, or to establish that the double act of disbelief and persecution is worse than the single act of disbelief, is a sleight of hand, and not a very good one at that.
		But keeping others from the path of God (and disbelieving in Him!) and the Sacred Mosque and expelling its residents from it is a much greater sin in the eyes of God.
	www.islamic-awareness.org /Quran/Q_Studies/Mirbalaga.html (2350 words)

	Kairouan,Tunisia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As the city expanded during the following three hundred years, the original mosque was torn down and rebuilt in 703, again in 774, and then significantly enlarged by rulers of the Aghlabid dynasty in 836 and 863.
		Surrounding this sacred area is an enclosing wall reinforced by projecting buttresses and two stone towers and pierced by nine doorways.
		These three are reasoned, studied, and admirable work of great architects sure of their effects, pious of course, but artistic first, inspired as much or more by their love of line, of form, and of decoration, as by their love of God.
	www.sacredsites.com /africa/tunisia/kairouan.html (1274 words)

	The Peace Encyclopedia: Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A fire at Al-Aqsa Mosque in 1969 gave Faysal the occasion to convene twenty-five Muslim heads of state and establish the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a United Nations for Muslims.
		Mosques were built next to churches and synagogues so that their minarets could literally overtower them.
		Mosques were built next to churches to prevent the expansion of the Christian churches.
	www.yahoodi.com /peace/jerusalem.html (8609 words)

	ummah.com forum - Isra' and Mi`raj (Night Journey and Ascension)
		It was to Al-Aqsa Mosque that the Night Journey of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was made and from it that the Prophet's ascension to the Heavens took place.
		Thus, his going to Al-Aqsa Mosque, the land of Prophets, from which came Prophets Abraham, Isaac, Moses, and Jesus, was an indication that leadership of the world had moved to the new international message, Islam.
		Besides, Al-Aqsa Mosque is one of the three mosques to which Muslims are required to dedicate time for visiting; the other two mosques are the Sacred Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque.
	www.ummah.net /forum/printthread.php?t=23156 (1730 words)

	The Prophet Muhammad.org
		The Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) is in Mecca, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
		When the Prophet (saas) was able to describe the Al-Aqsa Mosque correctly, the polytheists said his description was exact.
		The Prophet (saas) had a dream when he was in Medina, that the believers had entered the Sacred Mosque and walked around the Kaaba.
	www.theprophetmuhammad.org /future.html (3500 words)

	Mosques
		Built after the Sacred Mosque at Makkah, its current architectural form is backdated to the early Islamic period (7th-8th century AC).
		It is the oldest extant mosque in China to survive into the 20th century in its original form, and was designed on the style of the Great Mosque of Damascus, Syria and built with pure granite.
		The principal mosque of Marrakech, the spiritual and administrative centre of Almohad dynasty (1130-1269 AC) in the Maghreb.
	koran.topcities.com /Mosques/Mosques.htm (901 words)

	THE HOLY CITY OF MECCA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This sacred city has a boundary at the north part of Madina likewise with Najd at the east part, It also has another boundary with Jiddah at the western part and with Asiru Al-Yaman at the southern part.
		The sacred premises of Mecca can be estimated as 550300 square meters including distance of Madina, likewise circle of sacred premises is almost 127 kilometers which boundaries are close to the Honored Ka'abah in some certain areas and far in some areas.
		THE SACRED MONUMENTS OF MECCA: The sacred Monuments of Mecca are: 1 Ü Mina 2 Ü Muzdalifah 3 Ü Arafaat
	www.rafed.net /towns/english/maka.html (1625 words)

	Sacred Places: Mosque of Córdoba, Spain
		It was added to and expanded over the next two hundred years to make it the third largest structure in the Islamic world.
		When Córdoba was captured by the Christian Spanish king of Castile, Ferdinand III, in the 13th century, the mosque reverted to a Christian sanctuary.
		SACRED PLACES is written and produced by Christopher L. Witcombe, Professor, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia, 24595 USA (phone: 434-381-6194 / fax: 434-381-6173).
	witcombe.sbc.edu /sacredplaces/cordoba.html (246 words)

	Islamic Voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was they who violated the sanctity of the Sacred Mosque when they persecuted the Muslims and tried to force them away from their religion over a period of 13 years, before their immigration to Madinah.
		To drive the people of the Sacred Mosque away from it is much more serious, in Allah’s view, than fighting in the sacred month.
		It was only a case of paying lip service to the sanctity of the sacred month in order to attack the Muslim community and accuse it of aggression, when the unbelievers were the real aggressors who violated the sanctity of the Sacred Mosque.
	www.islamicvoice.com /february.97/spea.htm (1888 words)

	Encounter: 6 March 2005 - Sacred Space
		The Holland Park Mosque on Brisbane’s Southside was established as a Muslim house of prayer by Afghan cameleers in 1907.
		Initially a timber structure on stilts, the mosque was rebuilt in the 1960s in a brick similar to that of the hundreds of suburban homes which, by then, had cropped up around it.
		Through time, people have given the mosque a characterisation of being sacred because it’s associated with religion, it’s associated with God, so anything associated with God is spiritual, and in some cases it’s considered to be off-limits to the usual, everyday life and therefore assumes a mantle of the sacred.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/relig/enc/stories/s1312763.htm (5835 words)

	PASSIA - Jerusalem 2000
		The relationship with Al-Aqsa Mosque is primarily fulfilled through acts of worship, but the physical maintenance of the Mosque is also part of the responsibility of all Muslims.
		Al-Aqsa Mosque has a very prominent place in the event, as it was the place where the Prophet (Peace be upon him) led the other prophets and messengers in prayer.
		Al-Aqsa Mosque was developed and the buildings expanded on a large scale during the reign of the two seventh century Umayyad Caliphs, Abd Al-Malik Ibn Marwan and his son Al-Walid, to the extent that it surpassed the architectural grandeur of all mosques.
	www.passia.org /jerusalem/meetings/2000/10july/islamic.html (3324 words)

	An Enlightening Commentary into the Light of The Holy Qur'an
		That treatment was more grievous than slaughter, because slaughter is taking the worldly life of a person instead of which the one reaches the prosperity of the next world, while in torture the one has neither the comfort of the present world nor the pleasure and ease of the coming world.
		Yet, it enjoins Muslims not to fight at the Sacred Mosque in order to preserve the security and sanctity of it.
		2- Sacred premises of Mecca and the Sacred Mosque are holy but the esteem of the blood of Muslims is more sacred.
	www.al-islam.org /enlighteningv4/24.htm (526 words)

	sciforums.com - Muslim writer: Jerusalem not sacred
		Jerusalem, at the center of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, is considered to be Islam's third holiest city, after the Saudi Arabian cities of Mecca and Medina.
		Arafa contends "Al-Aqsa" must refer to an existing mosque, not a place where a mosque would be established later.
		The Al-Aqsa Mosque and the adjacent Muslim shrine known as the Dome of the Rock were built after Caliph Omar I captured Jerusalem from the Persians, six years after Muhammad's death in AD 632.
	www.sciforums.com /printthread.php?t=28008 (500 words)

	RamadhanMain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Once we were ready we went to the sacred mosque to prepare for iftar (meal at the end of fast).
		The Sacred Mosque is kept in good condition despite the huge number of worshippers.
		To get a place inside the Mosque on Eid you have to get there early, and even then we had to be content with a place in the new extension, rather than the older Ottoman part were we had hoped to be.
	www.ramadhanzone.com /Ramadhanworld/Madinah.asp (783 words)

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		The city is rises to the sea level with almost 55 meters, and it is 39 degree and 36 minutes on the longitude, and latitude is 24 degree and 28 minutes.
		5 Ü THE FEATURES The sacred city of Medina is an oasis of desert and surrounded by mountains and the hotness from all sides, the city is formed from volcano rocks,...by a group of allies which are slopped from the mountains, this is in order to draw a fertility and fit land to it.
		THE MOSQUES OF THE CITY: The sacred city of Medina contains a big collection of an ancient mosques, which Al-Samhudi counted some of them up till 56 mosques, yet some of them has been destroyed and others are effaced due to day by day life.
	www.geocities.com /rabbizidni_ilma/Madina.html (2421 words)

	The Scotsman - International - Sacred Shiite mosque becomes place of conflict
		IRAQI forces have taken up defensive positions inside the Ali Mosque in Najaf, a sacred Shiite shrine, and are firing on coalition troops, the US military said yesterday.
		The US central command in Qatar said coalition forces were not firing back out of respect for the importance of the building, despite fierce fighting elsewhere in the town to try and root out Iraqi fighters.
		Calling the Iraqi fighters’ use of the mosque "a detestable example of putting historical sites in danger", Brigadier General Vincent Brooks of the US marines said coalition troops would try to avoid harming the shrine.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=390902003 (780 words)

	IslaminmE.cjb.net > Indisputable Evidence
		It is only through the message of Muhammad –may Allah's blessing and peace be on him- that Allah's decree of revelation and sacred law is in harmony with His decree destined within creation, so that the mosque which is consecrated according to revelation and sacred law, is also consecrated is the real, physical, objective world.
		As for the differences of holiness and divine favor bestowed on the two mosques, that is another matter containing great wisdom, much greater than the existence or non-existence of the Temple.
		When prophethood was found among the descendants of Abraham (Isaac?), the Aqsa Mosque was the hub of events and the mosque of the descendants of Isaac.
	www.geocities.com /islaminme001/bi_ie.htm (3023 words)

	Harun Yahya - An Index To The Qur'an
		Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good pleasure from their Lord.
		Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters wherever you find them, and seize them and besiege them and lie in wait for them on every road.
		We have appointed the sacrificial animals for you as one of the sacred rites of Allah.
	www.harunyahya.com /indexs.php (5314 words)

	Islamic Sacred Sites and Places - ReligionFacts.com
		Al-Azhar in Cairo, Egypt - the mosque university is the foremost school of Sunni Islam
		Ferhadija Mosque in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, destroyed in 1993
		Mosque of Mohammed Ali at the Citadel, Cairo, Egypt
	www.religionfacts.com /islam/places.htm (270 words)

	.:The Institute of Interfaith Dialog:. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The centre of Muslim life, apart from the home, is the mosque or masjid (Arabic, “place of prostration in prayer”) where the prescribed prayers are performed five times daily (in some Shiite groups only three times daily).
		The prayers are performed while facing Mecca, the site of the Kaaba and the birthplace of Muhammad, and the mosque wall which is closest to Mecca has a niche known as the mihrab built into it to show the direction of the holy city.
		By the time of Muhammad the pure monotheism which, according to Muslim belief, had been instituted at Mecca by Abraham, had become corrupted by idolatry and polytheism, and it was the task of Muhammad to restore the pure religion and re-establish monotheistic worship at the Kaaba.
	www.interfaithdialog.org /islam.php (5392 words)

	The Night Journey of Sura 17
		Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the farthest Mosque, Whose precincts We did bless,- in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He Is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things).
		This and the Mosque known as the Farthest Mosque (Masjid-ul-Aqsa) were completed by the Amir ‘Abd-ul-Malik in A.H. and completely razed to the ground by the Emperor Titus in A.D. Farooq-i-Azam Malik’s translation of Sura 17:1.
		When asked further, he thought the al-Aqsa mosque (not the Dome of the Rock) was a mosque from before the time of Jesus that was just sitting there all shuttered up.
	www.muslimhope.com /NightJourney.htm (4935 words)

	Abraham, Mecca and the Qibla: Revisiting the Incompleteness and Incoherence of the Quran
		The fact that the passage cited before this implies that Mecca was en route to the sacred mosque proves that it is not speaking of the Meccan Kabah.
		Violate not the sanctity of the symbols of Allah, nor of the sacred month, nor of the animals brought for sacrifice, nor the garlands that mark out such animals, nor the people resorting to the sacred house, seeking of the bounty and good pleasure of their Lord.
		But when ye are clear of the sacred precincts and of pilgrim garb, ye may hunt and let not the hatred of some people in (once) shutting you out of the Sacred Mosque lead you to transgression (and hostility on your part).
	answering-islam.org /Shamoun/incomplete_mecca.htm (3404 words)

	l'express
		Heavy fighting erupted near a sacred mosque in the Iraqi city of Najaf yesterday as US and Iraqi forces tightened their grip around Shi’ite militants after a threatened assault on the shrine did not go ahead.
		American tanks and troops advanced closer to the Imam Ali mosque after US aircraft unleashed their firepower overnight on rebels who have defied the interim government by refusing to leave the shrine and end a bloody three-week rebellion.
		US Army 1st Lieutenant Michael Throckmortan, speaking not far from the mosque, said American and Iraqi forces were trying to isolate the militia in one place before an attack.
	www.lexpress.mu /display_article.php?news_id=24880 (880 words)

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