While sharing an apartment with his cousin, he reportedly attended discos and beach parties, and his attendance at the mosque fell off.

Established in 1929, the mosque fell into disrepair and was dismantled.

However, the city fell to a far different foe in 1453 — the Muslim Turk — and this fall of Constantinople marked the nadir of Byzantine civilization ; the city was comprehensively sacked and looted ; the Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque.

On 13 April, U. S. Marines fell under attack from insurgents located within a mosque.

Just below the ancient site is a mosque which commemorates the death of one of the Companions of the Prophet Mohammed, who fell in battle here during the Battle of Fahl in January 635 AD.

The former minaret of the mosque, called the Giralda, survived the earthquake, but the copper spheres that originally topped it fell during the 1365 earthquake, and the spheres were replaced with a cross and bell.

Apart from the mosque, called Jāma ' Iltutmish ( pronounced Altamish locally ), nearly the whole of the ancient temple has fallen into ruins, but the relics are still unsurpassed as examples of Hindu architecture and sculpture.

However, the ruins were in 2003 when the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council ( UMSC ) started on reconstruction of a large mosque ( 15, 000-person capacity ) on land that included the fort.

In 614, the Persians conquered the area and destroyed the castle, leaving only ruins ; but in 637, the area came under the control of the Muslims and the building was reconstructed as a roofed mosque.

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

Recent excavations have revealed the ruins of an early Byzantine basilica under an old Ottoman mosque in the old part of the city ( Panagia peninsula ).

According to this document, a great treasure was hidden under the ruins of a mosque at the port city of Ashkelon which had been lying in ruins for 600 years.

During the Mamluk period ( 13th – 14th centuries ), it was a Muslim village and a mosque was built on the ruins of the synagogue.

The mosque is in ruins today but indigenous corbelled arches, floral motifs, and geometric patterns can be seen among the Islamic architectural structures.

Charles Theodore ’ s chief architect Nicolas de Pigage was charged to complete the Mannheim Palace, design the Schlosstheater and the gardens at Schwetzingen Palace ( including numerous pavilions, among them several artificial “ Roman ” ruins and a “ mosque ”) as well as Benrath palace.

The ruins of the original mosque as seen in a turn of the century French postcard.

Soon after, the French journalist Félix Dubois visited the town and described the ruins of the original mosque.

" Lieutenant C. J. Cruttenden, who wrote a memoir describing this portion of the Somali coast dated 12 May 1848, provided an account of the Berbera fair and an account of the only visible traces of man at the site: " an aqueduct of stone and chunam, some nine miles in length ", which had once emptied into a presently dry reservoir adjacent to the ruins of a mosque.

Among the cultural attractions of Balıkesir are the ruins of Cyzicus and Saraylar on the Sea of Marmara, Deasklaion ( near Bandırma / Ereğli ), and Antandrus ( near Edremit / Altınoluk ); Balıkesir's Yıldırım Mosque ( Eski Cami ), the Zağanos Pasha mosque complex, Clocked Church Mosque and quantity of Ottoman vernacular architecture at Ayvalık, and Alibey Mosque ( Çınarlı Cami ).

Among the historical monuments are the 9th century Albanian church 18 km away from the administrative center of Balakan, Peri castle dating to 7th – 8th centuries in Qullar village, 17th century mosque with a 45 meter minaret in Balakən city, Nokho Cave in the Qubek gorge pertaining to the Iron Age, ruins and pilgrimage site from the 5th – 8th centuries located 2 km west of Mahamalar village, 1st – 2nd century BC necropolis 1 km north of the same village, mosque built in 1780 and an underground water storage facilities from the 18th century in Qullar village, a 19th century fortress and 18th century mosque in Mahamalar, a 14th century mosque in Katex village, 17th century four-edged castle and two tombs, a 14th century mausoleum in Tülü village, mosque built in 1910 in İtitala village, 14th century temple in Hənifə village, 16th century mosque in Xalatala and temples in Mazımçay, ruins of a settlement from Middle Ages on Maklakan mountain.

It was situated on the island at ' Anah and belonged to ... the congregational mosque.

The dominant feature during the Ottoman period was a mosque inside the Parthenon, complete with a minaret.

He ensured roadways were begun, aqueducts were constructed or improved, and that a new mosque was well funded in his capital at Córdoba.

The construction work began in November 1869 and the mosque was finished in 1871.

Haznawi grew up in the village of Hezna, where his father was a cleric at the mosque in the central marketplace section of the village.

Ordered by Sultan Bayezid I, the mosque was designed and built by architect Ali Neccar in 1396 – 1400.

A mosque dedicated to Umar was built upon the place in the city where he prayed, next to the church.

Work on the mosque was started in 1980, and was intended to be completed for the 60th birthday of the former Moroccan king, Hassan II, in 1989.

As a concession, the mosque in Constantinople was re-opened and sermons were to be pronounced in az-Zahir's name.

According to Muslim tradition, in 620 Muhammed was taken on spiritual journey from Mecca to the " farthest mosque ", whose location is considered to be the Temple Mount, returning the same night.

In an interview with BBC2's Newsnight, Nasiri said Libi " needed the conflict in Iraq because months before I heard him telling us when a question was asked in the mosque after the prayer in the evening, where is the best country to fight the jihad?

The mosque was painted and decorated by a local wealthy man, Datuk Ujang bin Bagong, for the benefit of the local Muslims.

After the Muslims took over all of Egypt, the top of the Pharos supposedly became a mosque, as the beacon was no longer in working order.

The Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, was built in 670 and is the most prestigious mosque in the western Islamic world.

The first Chinese mosque was established in the 8th century in Xi ' an.

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.

Before a mutual solution could be devised, the mosque was destroyed on December 6, 1992 as the mosque was built by Babur allegedly on the site of a previous Hindu temple marking the birthplace of Rama.

The controversy surrounded the mosque was directly linked to rioting in Bombay ( present-day Mumbai ) as well as bombings in 1993 that killed 257 people.

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.

He was buried in Bursa, in a mausoleum erected by himself near the celebrated mosque which he built there, and which, from its decorations of green porcelain, is called the Green Mosque.

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.