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mihrab
It is small curve in the front wall of the mosque. It save one line of the prayer. The Imam stands outside the Mihrab but he offers sijdah inside the Mihrab.
It is called Qibla or Mihrab
The center emblem is the classical emblem of Afghanistan with a mosque with its mihrab facing Mecca.
The area towards the front of a mosque that looks like a portal is called the MIHRAB. It was designed that way for its acoustic qualities, that allow a person standing there to be heard throughout the mosque without modern voice amplification technologies.
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Mihrab (Arabic: محراب‎ miḥrāb, pl.محاريب maḥārīb) is a semicircular nichein the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla; that is, the direction of theKaaba in Mecca and hence the direction that Muslims should face when praying. The wall in which amihrab appears is thus the "qiblawall."Mihrabs should not be confused with the minbar, which is the raised platform from which an Imam (leader of prayer) addresses the congregation.
The Mihrab is a marker or niche in a mosque that indicates the proper direction fro the worshippers to face while praying. It points toward Mecca which is the site of the Kaaba toward which all Muslims must face during prayer.
Qiblah means "direction". I it known in Islam as the direction one faces to pray during salah. In a mosque, the mihrab indicates Qiblah
Well a mosque (most in America that I know of) have a section for guys to pray in and then a section for women to pray in. They are separate places where both genders cannot see each other. Other mosques in other countries have a part that the Imam goes to call the adhan and then there is the room for the men to pray in. Sometimes there is a room for the women to pray in. And there is a bathroom, either attached outside or inside.
When the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque in 1453, the Christian features were removed, and Islamic faetures, like the minbar and mihrab, plus four minarets, were added. Even though the mosque has now been secularized, it still retains its Islamic appearance.