Neneh Cherry

I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up.

Swedish Musician

Said Sayrafiezadeh

I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

American Playwright

Ice Cube

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.

American Musician

Ibrahim Hooper

There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

American Activist

Khalil Gibran

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Lebanese Poet

Sigmar Gabriel

Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.

German Politician

Aasif Mandvi

I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.

Indian Actor

Guru Nanak

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

Philosopher

Janhvi Kapoor

I love visiting churches and I think I've visited every mosque in Istanbul.

Indian Actress

Marine Le Pen

French Politician

Understand mosques are central to Muslim community life, not just for prayer.

Religious Significance

Recognize mosques vary widely in size, style, and design across the world.

Architectural Variety

Remember, entering a mosque usually requires removal of shoes and modest dress.

Cultural Respect

 proclaiming that it would be the new imperial mosque. The four minarets built over the next century are the most obvious sign of this era, serving as architectural supports in addition to their religious purpose. But there are many others. Ornate candle holders relate Suleiman's conquest of Hungary,

It's a church. It's a...

 They have enjoyed the true meaning of belonging to a place, and that was reflected in their built environment, in the mosques and churches built back-to-back, in the interwoven souks and public venues, and the proportions and sizes based on principles of humanity and harmony.

How Syria's architecture...

 And I did that; I put on my ritualistic dress, I went to the holy mosque, I did my prayers, I observed all the rituals. And meanwhile, besides all the spirituality, there was one mundane detail in the Kaaba that was pretty interesting for there was no separation of sexes.

Mustafa Akyol: Faith...

 And then the lights will come back on, and they'll reemerge into the world they knew several hours prior. And millions of people will look at the world a little bit differently than they did when they went in. Like going to temple or a mosque or a church,

How I accidentally...

 During his conquests, he spared artisans and scholars, sending them to work on public projects like schools and mosques. Unlike many women in the world at the time, his wives, daughters, and daughters-in-law were highly educated and politically active.

History vs. Tamerlane...

 synagogue or mosque you know that might not necessarily be true there is no such tradition so what is the motivation to try to take a religious philosophy and influence what goes on in science you can get up enough people to influence

Neil deGrasse Tyson on...

 if you want to bring about a change in the world then you have to do it through jihad you have to do it through the ak-47 and when I returned back to the mosque that I was staying at they followed back with me they let me

An inside look at...

 I personally met with people from all walks of life -- mayors, NGOs, schoolchildren, politicians, militiamen, people from mosques, churches, the president of the country, even housewives.

Making peace is a...

 And they said, yes, they do. So I took them to the mosque, and to make a long story short, I told them I'd give them teachers. Today, they are the best trainers. They learn English,

How I Stopped the...

 to building this charter, launching it and propagating it so that it becomes -- I'd like to see it in every college, every church, every mosque, every synagogue in the world,

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