| Usually opposite the entrance to the prayer hall is the qiblah wall, the visually emphasized area inside the prayer hall. |
| The qiblah wall should, in a properly oriented mosque, be set perpendicular to a line leading to Mecca, the location of the Kaaba. |
| Congregants pray in rows parallel to the qiblah wall and thus arrange themselves so they face Mecca. |
| In the qiblah wall, usually at its center, is the mihrab, a niche or depression indicating the direction of Mecca. |
| He was born in 1940 in the Qiblah neighborhood of Kuwait City and belongs to a locally highly-revered family of businessmen and politicians. |
