From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmosquemosque /mɒsk $ mɑːsk/ ●●○ noun [countable] RRIa building in which Muslims worship
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mosque• The exterior is uninteresting but the interior, now used as a mosque, is very fine.• At dawn the next day we were awoken by the call to prayer from a nearby mosque.• Small stone oratories - the Druze have no mosques - stand amid the fields.• But in 1980, there was only one mosque in the Phoenix area.• Back in the early 1980s, there was a small community whose focal point was one mosque in Tempe.• The Hassan Deftedar's mosque, Banjaluka.• Did they even attend the mosque on a regular basis?• The sound echoed out of the mosque towers across the town.Origin mosque (1400-1500) Old French mosquee, from Old Spanish mezquita, from Arabic masjid, from sajada “to lie face downward” 