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Naming Churches and Synagogues Mosques

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, are churches and synagogues called mosques, based on the hadith
Let Allah destroy the Jews for they have taken the graves of their apostles as places of worship.قاتل الله اليهود اتخذوا قبور أنبيائهم مساجد
Sahih Muslim 530a
?

Answer:
No, they are not called mosques,
there would have been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques in which the name of Allah is much mentionedلَّهُدِّمَتْ صَوَامِعُ وَبِيَعٌ وَصَلَوَاتٌ وَمَسَاجِدُ يُذْكَرُ فِيهَا اسْمُ اللَّهِ كَثِيرًا
[Al-Hajj 22:40]
, and places of prayer. [The verse says] "They would have been destroyed: the monasteries, the synagogues, the places of prayer, and the mosques." The mosques are for the Muslims, and the monasteries and synagogues are for the Jews and Christians, and the places of prayer are for them, for the Jews and Christians. Yes.
Source المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 07-11-1436هـ — alfawzan.live (50:41)

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