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MIHRAB

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MIHRAB , a

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Mahommedan architecture given to the niche which in a mosque indicates the direction of Mecca, towards which the Moslems turn when praying .

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