رَأَيْتُ مَسَاجِدَ — I saw mosques.
رَأَيْتُ: past tense verb built on sukūn when attached to tāʾ of the subject; تُ is the attached subject pronoun.
مَسَاجِدَ: direct object, accusative, with visible fatḥa and no tanwīn.
The verb assigns the object its grammatical role. A fatḥa alone does not identify the role without the sentence.