Creative Writing: My Visit To A Mosque

For my places of warship assignment, I decided to go to the mosque. For the first time on September 28, 2014 I went to the mosque with a friend of mine who is a muslim. Mosque is a Muslim place of warship. When I was there I heard some people saying masjid. I ask my friend that what is the difference between mosque and masjid. He said that mosque is a english word for masjid; in urdu or in arabic we say masjid. Then i also realized why the mosque is named masjid. When I got there, my friend introduced me to some the members of the mosque and his friends. People there were the most friendliest people I have ever met. They never made me feel like I am not part of them. They welcomed me, greet me, and asked me to come every week if I

There was lots of interesting stuff to see both outside and the inside. The build was very much like the house. I guess it makes sense, since it is here in US, and the weather is pretty cold. Usually in a mosque there towers rising form the mosque. They were round and long and covered with the pointed room. It is where adhan is called; adhan is a islamic call to prayer. And the building has the dome rooftop. The mosque I went to was very plain looking. From the front it looked like a house. It was kind of long, and it had lawn around it, with beautiful trees and flowers planted. From the inside, the building is very plan. As soon as you enter the building there was a shoe rack, where everyone took of their shoes. And then there was a prayer hall, where the warship takes place five times a day. The prayer hall is also called musalla. The prayer hall was pretty plain; there was literally no furniture in the room. There were some chairs for the elderly people, and a book shelf filled with Quran and other islamic religious books. The prayer hall walls were plain as well, except some part where the walls ware decorated with the writings from Quran in Arabic. Other than that, there was no paintings, statues, or altar that caches your attention except one little part of the wall. That one little part of the wall was Mihrab. Mihrab is a semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque, which indicates the direction of the

First one was, when I entered the church, my friend told me to enter with the right foot first. The reason for that was sunnat, way of the prophet Muhammad. He said if we do it with the right intentions, we will get rewarded. Second one was that everyone washed their hands and face before entering the prayer hall. They do that because they believe that their body, soul, and cloths should be clean before praying. Another ritual I witnessed that why not all the women prayed is so all the men keep their focus on Allah. Women generally prays at home or in a separate room. All the mens were a little cap called taquiyah to show that they are the followers of Muhammad. Because Muhammad wore the cap all the