I will now compare how attending the mosque as a Muslim is different from attending the church as a Christian, which was superior, and why.  I grew up attending the mosque in my childhood and teenage years, for two different purposes. One was that I joined other Muslims to pray namaz, the five daily prayers, during the designated times. 

Those five daily prayers were fajr, zuhr, asr, maghrib and isha. Zuhr on Friday was called jummah. The other purpose of attending the mosque was to recite the Quran, alongside several other Muslims who were approximately my age, in the presence of a Muslim scholar, who we usually addressed as “Maulvi Sab.” He also had the title of Maulana, but we rarely ever called him Maulana. We would recite the Quran in the presence of the Maulvi for the purpose of learning how to read it as accurately as possible and to memorize as much of the Quran as we could within the time we had.

I personally went to the mosque for this purpose from the age of six to age eighteen, i.e., twelve years. For twelve years, I went to the mosque after school for one hour, and later for one hour and thirty minutes. I did this five days a week for most weeks, but I received days off during Ramadan, Eid and if no one was available at the mosque. 

I attended the mosque for five days a week in my last two years of attending, because I was getting older and busier with other commitments. Besides reading the Quran, we would also learn about other Islam-related issues, such as the stories of the prophets in Islam, what to do to be a good Muslim, and what to avoid as a Muslim; I can’t even remember most of what I was taught.