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The Koutoubia Mosque (Arabic: جامع الكتبية) is the largest mosque in Marrakech, Morocco. The minaret was completed under the reign of the Almohad Caliph Yaqub al-Mansur (1184-1199) and was used as the model for the Giralda of Seville and for the Hassan Tower of Rabat.
The name is derived from the Arabic al-Koutoubiyyin for librarian, since it used to be surrounded by sellers of manuscripts. It is considered the ultimate structure of its kind. The tower is 69 m (221 ft) in height and has a lateral length of 12.8 m (41 ft). Six rooms (one above the other) constitute the interior; leading around them is a ramp by way of which the muezzin could ride up to the balcony. It is built in a traditional Almohad style and the tower is adorned with four copper globes.
According to legend, the globes were originally made of pure gold, and there were once supposed to have been only three globes. The fourth globe was donated by the wife of Yacoub el-Mansour as compensation for her failure to keep the fast for one day during the month of Ramadan. She had her golden jewelry melted down to flab the fourth globe.
The minaret of the Koutoubia was the model for the minaret of the Giralda mosque in Seville which in its turn has influenced thousands of church towers in Spain and Eastern Europe.[citation needed]
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Charminar built in 1591 AD, is a landmark monument located in Hyderabad, India. The two words Char Minar of Urdu language are combined to which it is known as Charminar (English: Four Towers). These are four ornate minarets attached and supported by four grand arches, it has become the global icon of Hyderabad and is listed among the most recognized structures of India. The Charminar is on the east bank of Musi river. To the northeast lies the Laad Bazaar and in the west end lies the granite-made richly ornamented Mecca Masjid.
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Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque,one of the architectural masterpieces of Safavid Iranian architecture, stands in the eastern part of Naghsh-e Jahan Square and opposite the Ali Qapu palace , Isfahan, Iran.
Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in Wikipedia
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This is a good view of the giant bronze doors from the outside.
Casablanca, Morocco
The Hassan II Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الحسن الثاني, French: Grande Mosquée Hassan II) is a mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. It is the second largest functioning mosque in Africa and is the 7th largest in the world. Its minaret is the world's second tallest minaret at 210 metres (689 ft). Completed in 1993, it was designed by Michel Pinseau under the guidance of King Hassan II and built by Moroccan artisans from all over the kingdom. The minaret is 60 stories high topped by a laser, the light from which is directed towards Mecca. The mosque stands on a promontory looking out to the Atlantic Ocean; worshippers can pray over the sea but there is no glass floor looking into the sea. The walls are of hand-crafted marble and the roof is retractable. A maximum of 105,000 worshippers can gather together for prayer: 25,000 inside the mosque hall and another 80,000 on the mosque's outside ground.—from Wikipedia
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Another shot from Saturday's 'Open Doors' visit to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
I'd visited twice before, once when it was under construction and then again about five years again. I was keen to see how it was 'bedding in' and I'd say the answer is 'quite well'. The gardens in particular are maturing nicely and really add to the setting.
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From Wikipedia, "The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OXCIS) was founded in 1985 as an independent centre affiliated with the University of Oxford, mainly interested in the advanced study of Islam and Muslim societies. Its patron is the Prince of Wales. In 2012 it was granted a royal charter by Queen Elizabeth II. The governance of the Centre is managed by a board of trustees made up of scholars and statesmen from around the world, and representatives of the University of Oxford.
The Centre is dedicated to the study, from a multi-disciplinary perspective, of all aspects of Islamic culture and civilization and of contemporary Muslim societies. The Centre's Fellows are active in different departments, faculties and colleges across the university. Many students and senior academics come to Oxford, over the years, through the Centre's Scholarships and Visiting Fellowships programmes. The Centre arranges lectures, seminars, workshops and conferences, exhibitions and other academic events throughout the academic year."
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Address: Calle de San Nicolas (Mirador de San Nicolas)
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Schedule: Just before and during mass: Mon-Sat: 18:30, Sun: 11:00, 12:00, 18:00. Note: mass times will change (winter and summer months).
Located just next to the Mirador de San Nicolas, the church sadly burned to the ground in 1932. Now rebuilt, it is still considered one of the oldest Mudejar churches in the city of Granada. As with many churches in this quarter, it sits on the former site of a mosque, although hardly anything is left of the mosque. For another Mudejar church, visit the Iglesia de San Gil y Santa Ana in the Plaza Nueva.
Light falling through a stained glass window in the Cathedral of Córdoba shines on an arch in the former Great Mosque of Cordoba. La Mezquita in Córdoba, Spain. This Córdoba Mosque-Cathedral is regarded as one of the most accomplished monuments of Moorish architecture - and it was one of the highlights of our southern Spain trip last fall. The Moors began building the Mosque in 784 AD. When the Christians took over Cordoba in 1236, King Charles V gave permission to construct a cathedral inside the Great Mosque. But construction didn't begin until 1523 - and it was decided to insert the new cathedral in the very heart of the former Mosque. To witness that monument with it's striking contrasts between the two different architectures and religions is amazing.
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Tomb of Jahangir, (Urdu: جهانگير کا مقبرہ) is the mausoleum built for the Mughal Emperor Jahangir who ruled from 1605 to 1627. The mausoleum is located near the town of Shahdara Bagh in Lahore, Pakistan. His son Shah Jahan built the mausoleum 10 years after his father's death. It is sited in an attractive walled garden. It has four 30 meter high minarets. The interior is embellished with frescoes and pietra dura inlay and coloured marble. The mausoleum features prominently on the Pakistan Rupees 1,000 denomination bank note.
The entrance to the mausoleum is through two massive gateways of stone and masonry opposite each other (to the north and south) which lead to a square enclosure known as the Akbari Serai. This enclosure leads to another one, on the western side, giving full view of the garden in front of the mausoleum, which is traversed by four-bricked canals proceeding from the centre, and in which many fountains were placed which are now in ruins. The corridor around the mausoleum is adorned with a most elegant mosaic, representing flowers and Quranic verses.
The interior of the mausoleum is an elevated sarcophagus of white marble, the sides of which are wrought with flowers of mosaic in the same elegant style as the tombs in the Taj Mahal at Agra, India. On two sides of the sarcophagus the ninety-nine attributes of God are inlaid in black. Beautiful 'jalis' admit light in various patterns.
I have always been fascinated with history. Delhi is a wonderful city with beautiful monuments from the Mughal era. If you have time please read more about this Tughluq ruler here:
Echoes of the past, whispers of history in every brick and stone, the elaborative brick work is remarkable to see and feel.
Shah Jahan Masjid, Sindh, Pakistan
Not open to non-Muslims.The road from Bab Agnaou leads to Rue de la Kasbah, turn right along here and then take the first left. On this road is the much- restored Kasbah Mosque, dating from 1190. The minaret has Almohad darj wa ktaf (step and shoulder) and shabka (net) motifs on alternate sides, all on a background of green tiles. Though not as impressive as the tower of the Koutoubia Mosque, the minaret is a notable landmark en route to the Saâdian Tombs.
The Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, is famous for its extensive faience tile work. It has been described as ' a mole on the cheek of Lahore'. It was built in seven years, starting around 1634-1635 A.D., during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan. It was built by Shaikh Ilm-ud-din Ansari, a native of Chiniot, who rose to be the court physician to Shah Jahan and later, the Governor of Lahore. He was commonly known as Wazir Khan. (The word wazir means 'minister' in Urdu language.) The mosque is located inside the Inner City and is easiest accessed from Delhi Gate.
In his published notes, F H Andrews, former Principal of the Mayo School of Arts, describes the mosque thus: 'The material used in the construction of the Mosque is a small tile-like brick universally used by the Mughals when stone was unusable or too costly. The only stone used in the building is used for brackets and some of the fretwork (pinjra). The walls were coated with plaster (chunam) and faced with a finely-soft quality of the same material tooled to a marble-like surface and coloured. All the external plasterwork was richly coloured a rich Indian red, in true fresco, and the surface afterwards picked out with white lines in the similitude of the small bricks beneath. The extreme severity of the lines of the building is relieved by the division of the surfaces into slightly sunk rectangular panels, alternatively vertical and horizontal, the vertical panels having usually an inner panel with arched head or the more florid cusped mihrab. These panels, where they are exposed to weather, are generally filled with a peculiar inlaid faience pottery called kashi, the effect of which must have been very fine when the setting of deep red plaster of the walls was intact.'
'The facade of the sanctuary is practically covered with kashi and is divided into the usual oblong panels. A beautiful border is carried rectangularly round the centre archway, and inscriptions in Persian characters occur in an outer border, in a long panel over the archway, and in horizontal panels along the upper portions of the lower walls to right and left. The spandrels are filled in with extremely fine designs.'
'With the minars, however, the facade of the sanctuary, and the entrance gateway, where a small portion of the surface was left for plaster, the effect of the gorgeous colours against the soft blue of a Punjabi sky, and saturated with brilliant sunlight and glowing purple shadow is indescribably rich and jewel-like.'
'Right and left of the sanctuary are two stately octagonal minars 100 feet in height. On the long sides of the quadrangle are ranged small khanas or cells, each closed by the usual Indian two-leaved door set in a slightly recessed pointed arch, of which there are thirteen on each side by a pavilion rising above the general level, containing larger apartments and an upper story reached by two flights of steps, which also give access to the roof of the arcading and pavilions...these pavilions occur, in the centre of the north and south sides of the lower level of the pavement. In the pavilion on the south side is a fountain set in a circular scalloped basin, and served from the main which supplies the tank in the quadrangle.'
Within the inner courtyard of the mosque lies the subterranean tomb of Syed Muhammad Ishaq, known as Miran Badshah, a divine from Iran who settled in Lahore during the time of the Tughluq dynasty. The tomb, therefore, predates the mosque.
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Jāme' Mosque of Isfahān, also known as the Atiq Mosque and the Friday Mosque of Isfahān, is a historic congregational mosque (Jāmeh) of Isfahan, Iran. The mosque is the result of continual construction, reconstruction, additions and renovations on the site from around 771 to the end of the 20th century. (Wikipedia)
While staying in Muscat, I spent a morning exploring the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, an architectural masterpiece and a haven for those drawn to light and shadow. Completed in 2001, this iconic landmark offers endless opportunities for creative compositions, with its domes, archways, and intricate patterns creating striking contrasts of light and shadow. – Muscat, Oman
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Another inside view of Badshahi Mosque, Lahore's most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era. Built in 1671 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir. Like the character of its founder, the mosque is bold, vast and majestic in its expression. Its design was inspired by Islamic, Persian and Central Asian influences.
The walls and ceilings are beautifully decorated with colourful panels filled with rich hand written calligraphy from The Holy Quran and artistically made floral paintings and carvings. The Mosque truly is a wonder of the Mughal Era.
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Exquisite Islamic exterior and architecture on ancient mosque in Taj Mahal - Agra.
The Mosque or Masjid, which stands to, the west of the Taj Mahal is reported to have been built by Isa Muhammed and plays an integral part in the overall design. It is made from red sandstone and measures 210 feet [64 meters] in length and 90 feet [27 meters] in width and is raised on a slight plinth. The exterior possesses one dominant portal, which is also known as an iwan.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque - Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Not open to non-Muslims.The road from Bab Agnaou leads to Rue de la Kasbah, turn right along here and then take the first left. On this road is the much- restored Kasbah Mosque, dating from 1190. The minaret has Almohad darj wa ktaf (step and shoulder) and shabka (net) motifs on alternate sides, all on a background of green tiles. Though not as impressive as the tower of the Koutoubia Mosque, the minaret is a notable landmark en route to the Saâdian Tombs.
Casablanca, Morocco
The Hassan II Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الحسن الثاني, French: Grande Mosquée Hassan II) is a mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. It is the second largest functioning mosque in Africa and is the 7th largest in the world. Its minaret is the world's second tallest minaret at 210 metres (689 ft). Completed in 1993, it was designed by Michel Pinseau under the guidance of King Hassan II and built by Moroccan artisans from all over the kingdom. The minaret is 60 stories high topped by a laser, the light from which is directed towards Mecca. The mosque stands on a promontory looking out to the Atlantic Ocean; worshippers can pray over the sea but there is no glass floor looking into the sea. The walls are of hand-crafted marble and the roof is retractable. A maximum of 105,000 worshippers can gather together for prayer: 25,000 inside the mosque hall and another 80,000 on the mosque's outside ground.—from Wikipedia
The Shrine of Hazrat Ali, also known as the Blue Mosque, is a mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. It is one of the reputed burial places of Ali, cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad. It is the building which gives the city in which it is located, Mazar-i-Sharif (meaning "Tomb of the Exalted") its name.
According to Shi'a Muslim belief, Ali was originally buried by his two sons, Hasan and Husayn in an undisclosed location, which was later made known by the great, grandson of Husayn and Sixth Shi'a Imam, Ja'far as-Sadiq - as the grave that is found within Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq.
The story the founding of the shrine indicates that, shortly after the murder of Ali and the burial of his body at Najaf, near Baghdad, some of Ali's followers worried that his body would be desecrated by his enemies, and they placed his remains on a white female camel. Ali's followers traveled with the camel for several weeks, until the camel ultimately fell to the ground exhausted. The body was then reburied where the camel fell. The body was said to be rediscovered there in the 12th century.