Today, I will be writing about a Mosque and how it was built. A Mosque is a place where people of the Islamic faith go to pray, play, and exchange thoughts with other people, like a Church in the Christian religion or a temple in the Buddhist society. All these buildings are sacred to the believers of their religion. There are many Mosques around the world, like Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem, Masjid) al-Haram, in Saudi Arabia (Masjid means Mosque in Arabic), and The White Mosque, located in Israel (previously Palestine) are just a few examples of some Mosques in our world. Many people have described Mosques as a beautiful place. Mosques usually consist of domes, multiple arches, some semi-domes on the sides, and tinted glass on the outside that make a Mosque a familiar place. All these developments have been made by Muslims. Even though you have seen tinted glass on a Church, it was developed in Damascus, Syria, and Egypt by Muslims in the late 11th century. It was the Europeans, who found out about these astounding developments, and without citing any credits, started to use these features in their sacred places. The Canterbury Cathedral in England was BUILT by Middle Eastern peasants employed by the Europeans after they saw what captivating buildings the Muslims could build. The stained glasses were shipped from Syria, so the Europeans didn’t even try to remix the Muslim designs. Inside the Mosque, everything was original. There was a minibar for the Imam (the lead person who performed the prayer) to make the prayer, a multitude of spaces for people to pray, and each spot sewed with incredible patience and symmetry to the others how could we forget, a children’s playroom that was filled with squishy toys that the Muslims built.
Now that you have learned about what is inside a Mosque, why don’t you visit one in real life, and look at its beauty, from the outside and inside?