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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.
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.
After seeing the church-like English architecture around here; it's our Islamic architecture that relieves you ;) The openness and sense of owning is just amazing.
wherever you go ... the end is in this divine message of ...
There is none worthy of worship except Allah; Muhammad saww is the Messenger of Allah
May Allah bring us to that level of revelation .. Inshah Allah.
ps: more pics of the mosque coming soon ;)
pps: thanks to maggie view large
Rabat, Morocco
Hassan Tower or Tour Hassan (Arabic: صومعة حسان; Berber languages: ⵙⵓⵎⵓⵄⵜ ⵏ ⵃⴰⵙⵏ) is the minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat, Morocco. It was commissioned by Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, the third Caliph of the Almohad Caliphate, near the end of the 12th century. The tower was intended to be the largest minaret in the world, and the mosque, if completed, would have been the largest in the western Muslim world. When al-Mansur died in 1199, construction on the mosque stopped. The minaret was left standing at a height of 44 meters. The rest of the mosque was also left incomplete, with only the beginnings of several walls and 348 columns being constructed.—from Wikipedia
Iran / Isfahan / Baba Qasem Tomb
مقبره ي بابا قاسم
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.... An ornate 26 metre / 85 feet-high minaret, the first of its kind in Toronto, is the mosque’s most defining feature ....
Standing at the north-eastern fringe of the ancient fort of Multan, is the eternal abode of Al-Sheikh Al-Kabir Sheikh-ul-Islam Baha-ud-Din Abu Muhammad Zakaria Al-Qureshi Al-Asadi, one of the greatest saints of the Suhrawardiya Silsila and one of the most distinguished disciples of Sheikh Al-Shuyukh Shahab Al-Din Suhrawardy. He was the founder of Suhrawardiya Silsila in the Sub-Continent. He was born in 1170. the shrine was built in 1263.
The prime attraction of the Fort area is the Mausoleum generally known as Bahawal Haq (the ornament of the Faith). The dome of the Mausoleum is visible from miles and dominates the skyline of Multan.
Sheikh Baha-ud-Din Zakariya known as Bahawal Haq was born at Kot Kehror, a town of Layyah District near Multan, around 1170. For 15 years he went from place to place to preach Islam and after his wanderings Bahawal Haq settled in Multan in 1222. He died in 1267. The Mausoleum is a square of 51 feet 9 inches, measured internally. Above this is an octagon, about half the height of the square, which is surmounted by a hemispherical dome. The Mausoleum was almost completely ruined during the siege of 1848, but was soon afterwards restored by the Muslims.
It is situated in El Nassirrya District, Sayeda Zeinab at the end of a closed-ended alley known as Monge alley. Getting there is directly through a right corridor at top of Komi Street that meets Hassan El Kashef Alley which leads to Monge alley; or through an adjoining alley to the Sabil of Sultan Mustapha which also leads to El Kashef alley.
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The Jāmeh Mosque of Isfahān (Persian: مسجد جامع اصفهان ) is the grand, congregational mosque (Jāmeh) of Isfahān city, within Isfahān Province, 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. This is one of the oldest mosques still standing in Iran, and it was built in the four-iwan architectural style, placing four gates face to face.
It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012.
One of the finest architectural details in Agra Fort, this octagonal tower known as Musamman Burj was constructed by Shah Jahan in the banks of the Yamuna River. It is part of the large architectural complex of Agra Fort in Agra City. The city was the seat of the Mughal Empire for more than a century and owes its more important development to the famous Emperor Akbar (1556-1605). He is the only known emperor who built fortresses and palaces at five different places: Agra, Fathepur Sikri, Allahabad, Ajmer and Lahore (all within fifteen years!).
Shah Jahan, the successor, was the fifth Mughal Emperor of India and ruled from 1628 until 1658. The period of his reign was considered the golden age of Mughal architecture. Shah Jahan erected many monuments, the most famous of which is the Taj Mahal at Agra, built in 1632–1654 as a tomb for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. In 1658, he fell ill and was confined by his son and successor Aurangzeb in Agra Fort. This is the drama: although Shah Jahan fully recovered from his illness, Aurangzeb declared him incompetent to rule and put him under house arrest in Agra Fort. From this building he contemplated the Taj Mahal at distance (it is partially shown in the photo) until his death in 1666 at 72.
It is said Emperor Shah Jahan expired in this octagonal chamber with his daughter Jahan Ara and a few royal ladies by his side.
Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
UNESCO World Heritage Site 1983
Source:
Siddiqi W.H. Agra Fort. World Heritage Series. The Director General. Archaeological Survey of India. New Delhi 2008.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Jahan
I was going to Botanical Garden on my way back from the office but was so surprised that besides the Botanical Garden I discovered a Seafood Restaurant fronting the Lake, and the Moroccan Pavilion.
I was quite impressed by the detailing of this pavilion that tastefully copied from the actual Moorish Architecture.
I am working in Putrajaya myself now.
Location : Moroccan Pavilion, Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Brick and tiles decorating the vaulted alley at the Vakil Mosque, Taken in Shiraz, Fars province, Iran, April 2009
Vaulted corridor aside the central court of the masdjed-e Nasr Al Molk at Shiraz
Taken in Shiraz, Fars province, Iran, April 2009
Originally, there was a zawiya (a Sufi prayer hall) of Abu Mandour on this site. In 1894 Khedive Abbas Helmy II (r.1892-1914) demolished the zawiya and built this mosque which was also named after Sheikh Sayyid Mohamed Abu Mandour (known as Abu al-Nadr because of his strong eyesight), who came to Rashid in 991.
The bottom of the minaret of the Hassan II Mosque has a large multi-story rotunda.
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
After a full day of exploring the Albaicín, take a walk on the road that runs along the Darro River called the The Carrera del Darro which takes you back to downtown Granada. As you walk along the road don't forget to look up to see the Alhambra, which sits on top of the hill right across the river. You can also make a quick stop to see the old Arab baths on your way back to downtown Granada. You might even see an artist painting a beautiful scene of the river.
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On a hill overlooking the port stands this ancient fortress. Its name in arabic meens "mountain of the lighthouse"
The Umayad mosque in Aleppo had great architecture as much as Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
Location : Umayyad Mosque , Aleppo - Syria
An Uzbek family wearing typical everyday clothing visits Registan, an extraordinary collection of majestic 15th century madrassas in the heart of Samarqand city.
Samarqand, Uzbekistan, 2016
Set of different pattern of Arabesque wooden collection with characteristic decoration in widows of Mahrabiya,,,, CAIRO,, EGYPT,, CANON EOS,,2017
Old Cairo , Darb El Ahmar . Mosque and School next to Bab Zewalah.
Was Happy to find my photo posted as one of the 50 beautiful HDR images from 50 world cities;)
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