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• It's clear that the museum is also aiming for greater sensitivity: A blue-tiled prayer niche, or mihrab, from a 14th-century mosque has been reoriented so it faces roughly east, the direction of Mecca. A New Home for Arab Treasures
• According to the book, the area of this mosque is 30x15 feet and its mihrab and musalla are still intact.
• Inside the mosque, a niche called mihrab orients the worshippers toward Mecca.
• A niche in one of the walls, called a mihrab, shows the direction that the worshippers should face in order to face Mecca.
• There is a Mihráb in the wall: but no proper mimbar or pulpit, three raised steps doing duty for it. The Faith of Islam
• In 1549, Jafar founded Kudus Mosque and fastened the rock in its mihrab, a niche in the mosque wall facing Mecca.
• What a mihrab means to the Wahhabists, the Khomeini-ists and the other Salafists explained the meaning of a Mecca-direction indicator (called a mihrab), like the one now being planted on the Flight 93 crash site: Error Theory
• In the last moments of his life he put on a girdle and seated himself in the "mihrab" [19] of the mosque. Mystics and Saints of Islam
• For example, at Mansura in Sind, all the remains of the mosques, one of which is pillared, have mihrabs in this position.
• But the ceramics are not far behind, a feast of shimmering lusterware, deep turquoise stonepaste, and a plethora of blue-and-white works that include the 14th-century prayer niche—or mihrab—that visitors to the old galleries will remember. The Many Paths Toward an Islamic Aesthetic