The FIR lodged by Sub-Inspector Ram Dube, Police Station Ayodhya, on December 23, 1949 states: " A group of 50-60 persons had entered Babri Mosque after breaking the compound gate lock of the mosque or through jumping across the walls ... and established therein an idol of Shri Bhagwan and painted Sita Ram, on the outer and inner walls with geru ( red loam )...

" Benny Morris writes that the " jittery Palmahniks massacr detenees in a mosque compound.

He decided to establish very new town on the area of Trgovište in much better living condition between rivers Raška and Jošanica, where at first he built a mosque, a public bath, a marketplace, a hostel, and a compound.

When the time for prayer arrived, however, he left the church and prayed outside the compound, in order to avoid having future generations of Muslims use his prayer there as a pretext for converting the church into a mosque.

** U. S. forces fired upon a mosque compound in Fallujah.

In Najran city, the Khushaiwa compound, with its Mansura mosque complex, is the spiritual capital of the Sulaimani branch of the Ismaili faith, one of two major strands of contemporary Ismailism.

At first he built a mosque, a marketplace, a public bath, a hostel, and a compound.

Reports indicated that he was detained by U. S. and Iraqi forces along with his two sons and neighbor on October 21, 2004 in a raid on the mosque compound where he was living ; however, the U. S. military denied that he had been arrested.

The mosque is also had its own compound.

In the mosque compound are a covered foyer, the main prayer hall, the ancillary prayer hall and a shrine to a local Muslim religious leader, Muhammad Salih Valinvah.

In his time, a stable and a family mosque was added in the compound.

Among the monuments of the Islamic period, the most important is Gemmiskiy, a neat compound including a coral stone mosque, an ancient graveyard and a well.

Sardar Rais Ghazi Mohammad Indhar, a wealthy landlord, commissioned this mosque in 1932 to be the jewel of his new palace compound, which already included a mosque and a prestigious Madrasa ( religious school ) and was completed in 1982.

The mosque was commissioned in 1932 by Rais Ghazi Mohammad, to be the jewel of his new palace compound where another mosque and prestigious religious school already stood.

After the Turks conquered the city in 1453 they converted it to a mosque, adding the stubby minarets.

The mosque has two minarets.

Consequently, mosque architects borrowed the shape of the bell tower for their minarets, which were used for essentially the same purpose — calling the faithful to prayer ..

At mosques that do not have minarets, the adhan is called instead from inside the mosque or somewhere else on the ground.

The Ahmadiyya Central Mosque in Kampala is the central mosque of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which has six minarets and can hold up to 9, 000 worshippers.

During the periodic renovations undertaken, the various ruling dynasties of the Islamic Caliphate constructed additions to the mosque and its precincts, such as its dome, facade, its minbar, minarets and the interior structure.

The mosque has four minarets erected at the corners, each minaret is 142. 3 m ( 460 ft ) tall.

The most spectacular feature of the mosque are the minarets on either side of the facade, reminiscent of the propylon to a pharaonic temple.

On June 13, 2007, suspected al-Qa ' eda insurgents attacked the mosque again and destroyed the two minarets that flanked the dome's ruins.

; Turkish ( 11th century ): 1, 2, 4 or 6 minarets related to the size of the mosque.

File: Baghshan Mosque at_Nishapur. JPG | Islamic-Specific Architecture in a mosque with two minarets in Nishapur

File: Quba Mosque. JPG | The four minarets of Quba Mosque, the first mosque in history built by Prophet Muhammad upon arrival in Medina, Saudi Arabia

File: Центральная мечеть Павлодара. JPG | The four minarets in Mashkhur Jusup central mosque, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.

* June 13: 2007 al-Askari Mosque bombing blows up two of the mosque ’ s minarets.

For centuries, Arba Rukun ( 1269 ), the Friday mosque of Merca ( 1609 ) and Fakr ad-Din ( 1269 ) were, in fact, the only mosques in East Africa to have minarets.

) In the " Survey of Western Palestine " in the latter part of the nineteenth century, Tarshiha was described as: " a very large village, containing about 1, 500 Moslems and 300 Christians ; there is a fine mosque with minarets newly built, also an old one ; the houses are well-built ; a new and handsome church has been built in the Christian quarter ".

Historically a muezzin around the world would recite the adhan or call to prayer by the minarets so people around the mosque could hear him.

Two additional minarets were erected to the northeast and northwest of the mosque.

The mosque has ten minarets built in different eras.

One finds there masonries and mosques of the 17th century ; Ketchaoua mosque ( built in 1794 by the Dey Baba Hassan ) flanked of two minarets, mosque el Djedid ( 1660, at the time of Turkish regency ) with its large finished ovoid cupola points some and its four coupolettes, mosque El Kébir ( oldest of the mosques, it was built by Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin and rebuilt later in 1794 ), mosque Ali Betchnin ( Raïs, 1623 ), Dar Aziza, palate of Jénina.

Image: Yazd-jame. jpg | The 800 year old Masjed-i Jame ' mosque of Yazd has one of the tallest minarets among Persian mosques.

Authorities say the two regularly attended the Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami mosque Awlaki led in San Diego, and Awlaki had many closed-door meetings with them, which led investigators to believe Awlaki knew about the 9 / 11 attacks in advance.

One of the earliest examples of these kinds of conversions was in Damascus, Syria, where in 705 Umayyad caliph Al-Walid I bought the church of St. John from the Christians and had it rebuilt as a mosque in exchange for building a number of new churches for the Christians in Damascus.

Sometimes a special part of the mosque was railed off for women ; for example, the governor of Mecca in 870 had ropes tied between the columns to make a separate place for women.

In certain times and places, non-Muslims were expected to behave a certain way in the vicinity of a mosque: in some Moroccan cities, Jews were required to remove their shoes when passing by a mosque ; in 18th century Egypt, Jews and Christians had to dismount before several mosques in veneration of their sanctity.

Mehmed I also completed the mosque at Bursa, which his grandfather Murad I had commenced, but which had been neglected during in reign of Bayezid.

Atta also began adhering to a strict Islamic diet, frequented the mosque, seldom socialized, and was unfriendly towards the couple's unmarried daughter who had a young child.

Authorities say the two regularly attended the Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami mosque Awlaki led in San Diego, and Awlaki had many closed-door meetings with them, which led investigators to believe Awlaki knew about the 9 / 11 attacks in advance.

After the Ottoman conquest, it was turned into a mosque in the early 1460s, and it had a minaret built in it.

* December 6 – Extremist Hindu activists demolish Babri Masjid – a 16th century mosque in Ayodhya, India, which had been used as a temple since 1949, leading to widespread communal violence, including the Mumbai Riots, in all killing over 1500 people.

This mosque had recently in January 2001 hired the same imam Anwar al-Awlaki with whom Hazmi had spent time at the Rabat mosque in San Diego.

The woman, who turns out to be Mrs Moore, has respect for native customs ( she had taken off her shoes before entering and she acknowledged that " God is here " in the mosque ) disarms Aziz, and the two chat and part as friends.

The present mosque of that name had not been built in Muhammad's day, nor does the Qur ' an contain any reference to Jerusalem, apart from the reference to the change of the qibla from Jerusalem to Mecca.

The city's famous patriarchal basilica, the Hagia Sophia, had already been converted into a mosque by the conquerors, so Gennadius established his seat at the Church of the Holy Apostles.

This very distinct style of architecture was inherited to them from the Seljuq dynasty, who for centuries had used it in their mosque building throughout Central-Asia, but it was perfected during the Safavids when they invented the haft-rangi, or seven-colour style of tile burning, a process that enabled them to apply more colours to each tile, creating richer patterns, sweeter to the eye.

A Hindu sect called the Nirmohis claimed the structure, contending that the mosque stood on the spot where a temple had been destroyed during Babar's time.

However, in southern China, in Canton the westerner James Legge encountered a mosque which had a placard denouncing footbinding, saying Islam did not allow it since it constituted violating the creation of God.

His appointment as imam of the al-Istiqlal mosque in Haifa had been approved by al-Husseini.

In the spring, the United States and the Coalition Provisional Authority decided to confront the rebels with a pair of assaults: one on Fallujah, the center of the " Mohammed's Army of Al-Ansar ", and another on Najaf, home of an important mosque, which had become the focal point for the Mahdi Army and its activities.