Mosque

A mosque in a dream is the dream's image of a building set aside for the daily collective turning toward God. The mosque is not a once-a-week place; the architecture is built around the five times of the day, the cleansing before prayer, and the line of bodies bowing together toward the same direction. The dream brings the mosque when something in your life — a discipline performed at fixed hours, a community of practice, a daily kept orientation — is currently the structure inside which a repeated act of devotion is being made. A mosque full at the hour, the line straight, is the dream affirming the kept discipline. A mosque empty at the hour, the call gone unanswered, is the dream noting that the daily discipline has lost its participants, and the building is keeping its form without its function.