Mosque tour

[qatarperegrine]

This morning about two dozen CMU-Q employees had a tour of two local mosques, followed by a traditional Qatari meal. It was one of the coolest things I've done since I got to Doha. My pictures are here.

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[roach2600.livejournal.com]

I really wish I had a chance to do this - this is the thing I most wanted on our spring break trip (besides meeting the CMU-Q students!)

It's interesting comparing the transliterated Arabic-in-Roman-letters and the Arabic. For example, on the modern-prayer-time-display, when the English says "Fajr" the Arabic says "alfajr".

Very, very interesting pictures - thanks!

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Arabic likes the definite article. :-)

The one that got me was al-maghrib. I never, ever notice the meem in the lam-meem ligature.

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and the women there pointed out that a lot of mosques in the States do tours now, too. Try the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh.