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Mr. Shihab, one of two Imams at Ikmulan Islam Mosque. Mr. Shihab studied in Cairo, Egypt for ten years. He offered some coffee and graciously let me take his photograph.
The Al-Hussain Mosque is a mosque built in 1154. The mosque is located in Cairo, Egypt, near the Khan El-Khalili bazaar. It is considered to be one of the holiest Islamic sites in Egypt.
The place is still so sacred that no Muslims can not enter it.
The mosque was built on the cemetery of the Fatimid caliphs, though this was not known until the site's archaeological excavation. It is named for Muhammad's grandson, Hussain ibn Ali. Shia Muslims believe that Husayn's head is buried on the grounds of the mosque. The complex includes a mausoleum, which dates back to the mosque's original construction in 1154.
The currently standing building was constructed in the 19th century, and was influenced by Gothic Revival architecture. Today, the mosque houses some items considered sacred by Muslims, such as the oldest complete manuscript of the Quran.
One of the Iwan of the Imam Mosque in Isfahan. The Mosque is considered one of the masterpiece of Persian architecture and was built at the beginning of the 17th Century. Its construction was part of the Naqsh-e Jahan Square.
I return here to my series of photographs of the magnificent Nizimiya Turkish Turkish Mosque in Midrand. The Mosque is famous not just as an extraordinarily beautiful architectural marvel, but as both a warm and friendly, welcoming, space and for its broad community service. Behind such a project are people. Here is a portrait of the genial Imam and one of the mosque's welcoming personnel. They were delighted to be photographed, and this is one of several lovely portraits I got. Thank you to them both!
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The Meridionali Ro.37 Lince (Italian: "Lynx") was a small two-seater reconnaissance biplane, designed and built by the IMAM company in Italy in 1934. It was armed with two 7.7 mm (0.303 in) fixed forward firing Breda-SAFAT machine guns and one 7.7 mm (0.303 in) flexibly mounted machine gun in the rear cockpit; a small bombload of around 180kg could be carried under the wings for ground attack missions.
Powered by a Piaggio Stella P.IX R.C.40 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine with 561 hp of power, it had a maximum speed of 330km/h and a range of 1120km which was comparable to most biplane light bombers in service with European Countries around that time.
Operationally it was unreliable and since it lacked armor, it became easy kill for the rapidly improving Allied air power over the Mediterranean during the Second World War. Still, it was generally liked by it´s crews and some examples were sold to foreign nations. Some (possibly as many as 58) were sent to the Nationalist Forces fighting during the Spanish Civil War.
To know more about their combat use during the war, click here for the next photo:
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