Reading
Shortcuts
Home
All Articles
Read from Another Site
Sources
Wikipedia
Simple Wikipedia
VOA Learning English
Futurity
The Conversation
MIT News
Harvard Gazette
Cambridge News
YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
Topics
Technology
Engineering
Business
Economics
Human
Health
Energy
Biology
Nature
Space
Log in
Sign up
2.03
History
Add
mihrab
noun
[ ˈmiːrɑːb ]
• a niche in the wall of a mosque, at the point nearest to Mecca, towards which the congregation faces to pray.
Origin:
from Arabic miḥrāb ‘place for prayer’.