Mosques always face Mecca, the Muslims holy land, and so will be at different angles in order to achieve this.
There is no exact number, but it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of religious buildings around the world, representing a wide variety of faiths and denominations. This includes churches, mosques, temples, synagogues, and other places of worship.
mosques are morre in INDIA then any other islam countrry.
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All mosques have several copies of the Holy Koran and other Islamic books and literature
A religious building is a large structure designed for religious purposes. It normally has a very large room for worship, and often has other meeting rooms. Churches, temples, and mosques are all religious buildings.
Mosques were built in order to fit the entire Muslim population the area. The hypostyle floor plan was used the most; it's a hall with a flat ceiling that is supported with columns. Think of a forest of columns that are spread out evenly. This type of architecture was very popular because it was easy to expand upon; take out a wall, add two more rows of columns, add more ceiling, and you're done. Mosques were decorated using arches (normally a horseshoe type of arch) and alternating voussoirs; columns to support arches were normally taken from older buildings, or spolia. Arabesques and motifs can be seen around mosques; this was used to decorate since you couldn't depict anything with a soul. In Europe, some places were taken over, like the Parthenon and other buildings used for religious purposes; I don't know too much about any Mosques in Europe.
The outer surface of polished white limestone were plundered during the 1300's, taken away and used for other buildings such as mosques etc. The surface stones had already been loosened by an earthquake.
The Qibla WallThe Prayer Wall, as it is sometimes called, is one of the most important areas of the mosque. In the photo of Magribija above, it is the wall on the right-hand side.This wall is very specifically orientated, and that is why mosques often seem misplaced as they face a completely different direction than the other buildings on the same street. It's also why, when you view a Muslim city from the air, all mosques are pointing in the same direction regardless of the countless directions all the other buildings in the city face.The mosque itself points towards Mecca, and if you picture the direction to Mecca as a straight line - then the Prayer Wall is the wall of the mosque that cuts across the top of it like the top of a letter 'T'. So that wall faces in the direction of Mecca
The first angle that is half as large as the other angle is 30º The other angle that is the larger is 60º
To avoid 'idol worshiping' and stay true to Allah. Instead of covering buildings and other surfaces with human figures, they developed complex geometric decorative designs, as well as intricate patterns of vegetal ornament (such as the arabesque), with which to adorn palaces and mosques and other public places.
In Muslim countries, a mosque may be used as a school as well as a place of prayer. In non-Muslim countries, a mosque is very often the central institution in the Muslim community. People may be married in mosques, they may gather in mosques to break their fasts, they may use the mosque as a center for charitable activities, and, of course, they often use them as schools.
No. Domes were invented for mosques after the Prophet. So were minarets. A mosque only has to: 1) indicate where the direction of prayer is. 2) be clean. 3) not have images of people or animals in it. 4) be built by money that was earned lawfully. 5) be maintained by true believers. (not hypocrites)