Mosque

The mosque - this building, where the faithful gather for worship, prayer.

Sacred to Muslims building is a building that stands alone, without the dome. The mosque includes a small inner courtyard. Near the mosque built special minarets (towers, usually their number ranges from one to nine), whose principal objective - is to convene of the faithful Muslims to prayer. The very premise for prayer, prayer hall, decorated modestly and without unnecessary decoration. The only decoration of the walls in the prayer hall can be lines of the Muslim holy book the Koran.

From an operational standpoint, the domestic construction of the mosque can be summarized as follows. Part of the mosque, which aims to holy Mecca for the Muslims, is in the construction mihrab (blank deepening). Right from where the minbar (a special chair in which the preacher, imam at Friday prayers worshipers bead).

Virtually every mosque and madrassa supplemented (the so-called Sunday schools).

The following types of worship among Muslims: the simplest and most modest version found in Mangyshlake. This is usually fenced area with a small prayer in the middle; mosque quarterly - it held daily prayers; Kabir - is at the center of a large city; cathedral - it held a total Friday prayers, Musa - The General mosque, which is an open platform.

By the structural elements of the mosque include the following: sacred niche (mihrab); mihrab, which is located in the yard (Anazi); Dept. of Imam (minbar); place for the secular lord in a mosque (maksura); stand for Imam holy book the Koran (Dick);

Despite these positive features in the traditionally Muslim countries, mosques have similar structure and interior decoration.