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.

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.

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 )...

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.

The mosque compound and minarets had been closed since the 2006 bombing.

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.

" The Islamic Center of Polish Tatars " in New York City until recently had its own mosque in Brooklyn ( 106 Powers Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 USA, originally build in 1928 ).

Hailed by Constantine and home to the famous and blue mosque, a Muslim holy place once brought to ruin by Genghis Khan, rebuilt by Timur, ruined again by the Soviets, and more recently the Taliban.

That mosque has recently been refurbished by the local community and is now called the Liverpool Muslim Society.

Dinguiraye is a small town in northern Guinea, known for its large mosque which until recently was thatched.

The other prominent mosques and Islamic centres in the city include the Central Jamia Masjid Ghamkol Sharif ( located on Poet's Corner in Golden Hillock Road, Sparkhill ), Jami Masjid & Islamic Centre in Coventry Road COVENTRY ROAD MOSQUE, Green Lane Mosque ( a former grand library and now modern refurbished Islamic centre and mosque in Green Lane, Small Heath ) which is the headquarters of Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith UK and the ' Amaanah ' or Bordesley Centre in Camp Hill run by the Muath Welfare Trust and recently renovated with a generous government grant to continue to provide educational and spiritual services to the large citywide Muslim community.

The mosque was most recently restored by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities in 2004.

Also of interest are snow-white towers and walls, erected in the 16th and 17th centuries but later renovated ; the Qol-Şärif mosque, recently rebuilt inside the citadel ; and the Governor's House ( 1843-53 ), designed by Konstantin Thon, now the Palace of the President of Tatarstan.

More recently, Mr Naseem also became the first British mosque official to openly ban extremist group Al Muhajiroun from the mosque grounds and from conducting activities inside the mosque itself.

Most recently, the newspaper featured the threat of violent protests from prominent UK Sikh leader, Sewa Singh Mandla, after the Sikh community was angered by the a Bollywood film, Jo Bole So Nihaal, which they believed committed sacrilege and also exposed the case of a Blackheath imam who was suing a lottery-funded mosque.

* January 4 – Gunmen open fire on Shia Muslims worshiping in a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 16 and injuring 25.

In January 1996 the ILA sealed the entrance of the mosque, but the villagers broke through the fence and again used the mosque for prayers.

After regaining the mosque, 63 rebels were executed on 9 January 1980 in eight different cities.

On 20 January 2006 the sight of a team of men hacking at the roof of the mosque sparked a riot in the town.

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.

* January 21-A suicide car bomb blows up outside a Shi ' ite mosque in Baghdad killing 14 worshipers and wounding 40.

*" Saudi offer to fix Delhi mosque " ( BBC News ) accessed January 5

However, per Tony Blair in his January 21, 2011 Iraq Inquiry testimony, insurgents had attacked the mosque to incite Sunni-Shite violence and further destabilize the country.

On January 3, 1999, they gained notoriety when they were arrested and deported from Israel as part of an Israeli effort to protect the Al-Aqsa mosque from extremist Christian groups, codenamed " Operation Walk on Water ".

* 2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.

The largest mosque of Tilburg, the Turkish Süleymaniye-Mosque built in 2001, stands in the southeastern corner of the district.

On May 6, 2001 Pope John Paul II, the first pope to pray in a mosque, delivered an address at Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, saying: " It is important that Muslims and Christians continue to explore philosophical and theological questions together, in order to come to a more objective and comprehensive knowledge of each other's religious beliefs.

In March 2001, while investigating Imran Mandhai, who attended the same Florida mosque as Shukrijumah, authorities made a note that Mandhai had eyed Shukrijumah as a potential colleague in whom to confide his plans, although Shukrijumah had refused to associate with the militant Mandhai.

The Emperor later erected a church, Kidane Mihret (" Our Lady Covenant of Mercy "), in the town to commemorate the event ; when John Graham visited the town in 2001, although Ras Makonnen's house had been reduced to a " circle of rocks ", Kidane Mihret was still standing and in use, although in worse repair than the mosque across town.

Masri celebrated the establishment of the ICB and the 9 / 11 attacks by holding a conference in Finsbury Park mosque in North London entitled " September the 11th 2001: A Towering Day in History.

With the influx of Muslims from India and Pakistan in the 60s and 70s, larger buildings were acquired in 1974 and 1982 to become the main mosque in Leeds, and finally in 2001 the Central Jamia Mosque was completed on Spencer Place.

During 2000 – 2001, 166 mosque schools ( 15. 47 % of the total primary schools ) were oprational in the district, while in 1997 – 1998, this number had increased to 180.

In 2001 a building permit was granted to the Islamska Zajednica Banjaluke ( Islamic Community of Banja Luka ) to reconstruct the mosque.

Amendments to the Penal Code in 2001 established strict punishments, including fines and prison sentences, for anyone other than a government-designated imam who preaches in a mosque.

In 2007, the FBI revealed they had received information from a deceased informant, believed to be former Jewish Defense League member Earl Krugel who had been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for 2001 plots to bomb a Southern California mosque and office of U. S. Representative Darrell Issa, who is Arab-American.

The largest non-Christian faith in Wales is Islam, with about 22, 000 members in 2001 served by about 40 mosques, following the first mosque established in Cardiff in 1860.

In 2001 Pope John Paul II visited the mosque, primarily to visit the relics of John the Baptist.

A computer technician, he had lived in West Paterson, New Jersey until 2000, then moved to Falls Church, Virginia where he befriended two of the hijackers, Hani Hanjour and Nawaf Alhazmi, at the Dar Al Hijra mosque in March 2001.