Until CK2 1.06, I had encountered the word musalla only as part of a phrase "musalla tasi", where coffins are placed in a mosque courtyard before being buried.
Playing a muslim, I kept vainly trying to a mosque variant, until I came (by a process of elimination) to musalla.
Upon further investigation, I found this phrase used by South-East Asian muslims, deriving from the Arabic word for courtyard.
However, even in that case, you cannot establish a musalla. By its definition, a musalla is a temporary gathering, a place that is not designed to last as a place of worship.
True, mosque > masjid (I'm using the Arabic orthography here, to keep you happy) and masjid > musalla / "jamaathana", but the functions of a mosque and a masjid and a musalla are different. A musalla/jamathana is the sort of thing, say, Pakistani immigrants to the UK might set up, a sort of congregational space in an infidel land.
A teeny mosque is a (teeny) mosque. A very large mosque is a (very large) mosque. They don't go by different names.
Playing a muslim, I kept vainly trying to a mosque variant, until I came (by a process of elimination) to musalla.
Upon further investigation, I found this phrase used by South-East Asian muslims, deriving from the Arabic word for courtyard.
However, even in that case, you cannot establish a musalla. By its definition, a musalla is a temporary gathering, a place that is not designed to last as a place of worship.
True, mosque > masjid (I'm using the Arabic orthography here, to keep you happy) and masjid > musalla / "jamaathana", but the functions of a mosque and a masjid and a musalla are different. A musalla/jamathana is the sort of thing, say, Pakistani immigrants to the UK might set up, a sort of congregational space in an infidel land.
A teeny mosque is a (teeny) mosque. A very large mosque is a (very large) mosque. They don't go by different names.
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