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Interesting Facts
Rules
In mosques there are no pictures or statues only colorful patterns and writing from Qur'an. The word mosque comes from the Arabic word masjid.
Mosques have many rules and one of them is
that you are not allowed music or singing when you are allowed in churches to sing.
Another rule is that it is forbidden to wear shoes on carpeted area at mosques. My last
rule is that in mosques the leader of prayers
called imam expects before you enter mosques you should be washed. There is a
washing fountain out the front of mosques
where they expect you to get washed
if you are dirty.
PLACING OF MOSQUES
Life for a imam
The mosque was first located in Hassan ll in Casablanca Morocca Islam. There are Mosques in every continent except Antartica. Did you know that 8 million visited Makah which has the mosque known as the Great Mosque. In countries what we call churches other countries call them mosques
The imam leader of prayers could have
a job outside the mosque as a
caretaker. An imam quite normally
never gets paid for the work he or she
does at mosques. An imam is what christians normally call priests but priests do more work
Life for people that go to mosques
In other religions men should go to a mosque to worship when women shouldn't but men are expected on Friday. In some hot countries people
pray in front of the mosque. All days
apart from Friday the mosque is
used for daily prayers and
teaching children