Mosque (non-standard form: mosque) is a house of worship for Muslims or Muslims. The mosque means a place of prostration, and another designation for a mosque in Indonesia is a prayer room, langgar or surau. The term is intended for mosques that are not used for Friday prayers, and are generally small in size. Besides being used as a place of worship, mosques are also the center of the life of the Muslim community. Holidays, discussions, religious studies, lectures and Qur'anic studies are often held at the mosque. Even in Islamic history, mosques play a role in social activities to the military.
Mosque means a place of worship. The root word of the mosque is where sajada means prostration or submission. The word mosque itself is rooted in Aramaic. The word masgid (m-s-g-d) is found in an inscription from the 5th century BC. The word masgid (m-s-g-d) means "sacred pole" or "place of worship". [1]
The word mosque in English is called a mosque. The word mosque comes from the word mezquita [1] in Spanish. And the word mosque later became popular and was used in English widely [2].
Towers, as well as large mosque domes, seemed to be witnesses to the glory of Islam in the medieval period. The mosque has been through the longest series of years in history until now. Starting from the Crusades to the Gulf War. For more than 1000 years, mosque architecture has slowly begun to adapt the mosque's buildings to modern architecture.
The first mosque.
When the Holy Prophet arrived in Medina, he decided to build a mosque, which is now known as the Nabawi Mosque, which means the Prophet's Mosque. Nabawi Mosque is located in the center of Medina. The Nabawi Mosque was built in a large field. At the Nabawi Mosque, there is also a pulpit that is often used by the Prophet Muhammad [1]. Nabawi Mosque was at the heart of Medina at that time. This mosque is used for political activities, city planning, determining military strategy, and for entering into agreements. In fact, the area around the mosque was used as a temporary residence by the poor.
Today, the Grand Mosque, the Prophet's Mosque and the al-Aqsa Mosque are the three holiest mosques in the world. [3]
Distribution of the mosque
Mosques were then built in areas outside the Arabian Peninsula, along with Muslims living outside the Arabian Peninsula. Egypt became the first area controlled by Arab Muslims in 640. Since then, the capital of Egypt, Cairo has been filled with mosques. Therefore, Cairo was dubbed the city of a thousand towers. [4] Some mosques in Cairo function as Islamic schools or madrasas even as hospitals. [5] Mosques in Sicily and Spain do not imitate Visigoth architectural designs, but mimic Moorish architecture. [6] Scientists later estimated that the pre-Islamic building forms were later transformed into Andalus and Magribi-style forms of Islamic architecture, such as the example of horseshoe arches on mosque doors