Throughout history, a place of worship has been significant to religious cultures. There has been shrines, alters, basilicas, churches, temples, synagogues and mosques used to worship a form of Supreme Being. In this paper, I would talk more about the significance of mosques. Mosques are used heavily from the Islamic people. Islam means submission to God, or in this case, Allah. All mosques has a similar trait, they are architected to guide believers to Mecca, the holiest city in Islam.
Before I go in too deep exploring the mosques, we need to revitalize a little history of the Islamic so that we would know why they view mosques as a useful complex to their culture. Islam is one of the oldest religions in history dating back to about 600 AD. It began when a man named Muhammad heard a voice from the heavens instructing him to proclaim the word of god. Currently there are over 800 million followers of the Muslim religion. The main text of the religion is the Koran which is said to be the word of God, or Allah as called in Muslim. Within the Koran, The five pillars of Islam are proclaimed along with many other concepts very unique to the Muslim religion. Prayer is a very important aspect of Islam as well.
"Prayer is one of the five pillars of Islam ? the other four are alms-giving, fasting, pilgrimage, and the remembrance of God. The devout Muslim will pray five times a day, and in general the prayer can be performed at home or wherever one finds oneself, but once a week at noon on Friday, all adults males are bound to assemble together in their community's main mosque ? the so-called Friday Mosque, or masjid al-jami ? to pray together and hear a sermon." (Irwin pg. 57) ...