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A gilded high relief from an early draft of the Persian Baths.
I just realised I neglected to get a front shot to show the cool zigzag pattern from the negative space between the slopes. Ah well.
Bayt Al-Suhaymi ("House of Suhaymi") is an old Ottoman era house museum in Cairo, Egypt. It was originally built in 1648 by Abdel Wahab el Tablawy along the Darb al-Asfar, a very prestigious and expensive part of Medieval Cairo. In 1796 it was purchased by Sheikh Ahmed as-Suhaymi whose family held it for several subsequent generations. The Sheikh greatly extended the house from its original through incorporating neighbouring houses into its structure.
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Title: Mirador de Lindaraja.
Alternative Title: [Lookout of Lindaraja.]
Creator: Unknown
Date: ca. 1870-1899
Part Of: Collection of photographs of Spain and Malta
Place: Granada, Spain
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: albumen; 25 x 19 cm on 29 x 22 cm
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Built 2010-2014 Architect - Charles Correa Associates .... The Ismaili Centre, was designed by Indian architectural firm Charles Correa Associates in collaboration with Toronto-based Moriyama & Teshima Architects. Correa sought to create a building that responds to the traditions of Islamic architecture in a contemporary way using modern materials. A distinguishing feature of the building is the glass roof of the prayer hall, which recalls the corbelling in many of the traditional domes in the Muslim world. The glass dome, which represented a difficult technical challenge, is made of two layers of high-performance glass, and fritted to deflect the heat of the sun. A clear sliver of glass facing east toward Mecca will run down the translucent roof.
The Eski Djamia
History
It was inaugurated in September 1409, as an inscription in the prayer’s vault tell us. That was the time of the Ottoman Interregnum, when the son of Bayazid I (“The Thunderbolt”), Suleyman Çelebi, or Emir Süleyman (b. 1377 - d 17 February 1411) ruled over Thrace, Bulgaria and Greece. In that time, the capital of the Ottoman Empire was still in Edirne (Hadrianopolis, Thrace) and very close to Stara Zagora. Which explains the magnificent construction of the mosque. Documents suggest that in spite of its name, the mosque was not the oldest mosque in the city – prior to it, there was another one, which is not discovered yet.
The mosque was built on a sacred place, occupied previously by a Thracian sanctuary (a heron) dedicated to the Thracian Horseman, the most prominent hero in the Thracian civilization. A Bulgarian Medieval Church from the 10th C. A.D. was discovered in the recent archaeological digs in the prayer salon of the mosque. The church was built following a simple architectural one-nave plan and the foundation of the church was 30 sm (1 foot) below the base of the mosque. Next to the church were discovered 30 graves, which suggests a Christian necropolis or burial ground for the noblest Christians of the city (then called Irinopolis). Below the eastern wall of the mosque were discovered ritual pit from the Early Iron Age (1000 years BC). The discovered during the 2001-04 excavations ceramic kilns date from the 5th and 6th C. The long history of the sacred place, where the mosque is located, has layers of civilization from the 1000 years before the common era to 19th century.
Between 2001 and 2004, the archaeologists discovered a stalae with Greek inscription from the times of the Roman Emperor Gallienus (Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus, c.218-268), which was covered by plaster around 1882, during the second major reconstruction of the mosque.
The Eski Djamia was mentioned in the travel memoirs of Evliya Çelebi, a famous Ottoman traveler from the 17th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evliya_%C3%87elebi.)
In modern day Stara Zagora, Eski Djamia is the only one building surviving the burning of the city by the Turkish Army in the Russian-Turkish Liberation War. Francis Vinton Greene, in his book “The campaign in Bulgaria, 1877-1878” describes the atrocities of the Suleyman Pasha armies during the war: “Suleiman Pasha had already burned the large town of Eski- Zagra to the ground, and had begun in the valley of the Maritza a wholesale system of hanging at the street corners every Bulgarian who had assisted (as guide, etc.) Gourko's troops during their stay south of the Balkans.” Another writer explains why Stara Zagora is completely new city (in architecture): “The town is almost entirely new, as the old town was burnt by the bashi-bazooks, who made pyramids of the heads of the Christian inhabitants.” (The Living age by Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell – 1894)
Architecture
The building consists of a square prayer hall and open entrance, covered by three small domes. From the entrance, the visitor proceeds to a gallery on the northern side of the mosque from which follows the prayer hall. A cupola shaped dome with 20 sides covers the prayer hall. The minaret of the mosque existed until 1987, when it was destroyed on purpose because of danger of collapse. Three rows of windows - the ones on the cupola dome and two lines of windows on the walls, give natural light to the prayer hall.
From archaeological data is known that the Eski Djamia went through several reconstructions and improvements during the Ottoman history of Stara Zagora (Eski Zagra was the Turkish name for the city).
A that the first big reconstruction was performed in the middle of the XIX century, just after a fire, which destroyed the adjoined bazaar in 1856 and covered mosque. During this reconstruction the floor level was raised by about 30 centimeters and covered with square tiles. The northern gallery dates from the same period, as well as the frescoes, which decorate the walls, the dome and the second row of windows.
The second big renovation and the re-sanctification of the mosque dates from 1882. During this reconstruction, the arched spaces were filled and two spaced were formed in the main building.
Thanks to the great architecture of the building, the Eski Djamia is declared as national monument of culture ин 1927. In 1979 is declared as national monument of architecture.
Wall paintings, frescoes and calligraphy
The majority of the wall painting (frescoes and Islamic calligraphy) date from the first reconstruction in 1856. The picturesque baroque style and the elegance of the calligraphy are the reason behind declaring them separately as a national monument.
Importance
During the period immediately after the Liberation of Bulgaria from Turkish Empire, many of the mosques and examples of Ottoman architecture and arts were destroyed because of the anger and hate of the Bulgarian people against the 500 years of torture, genocide, and constant attempts for destruction of the Bulgarian nation by the oppressors. Eski Djamia was spared from this campaign, and now represents the only one building in Stara Zagora from the 15th century. The artistic and architectural importance of the mosque are recognized by both scientists and governments. The recent archaeological discoveries are extremely valuable because they prove the continuance of the sacred place during several époques of the human history hidden below the building.
Current situation
Several plans for preservation and restoration of the mosques were carried out with different success during the past 30 years. The mosque is still in decay and under great danger of destroying the wall paintings and the interior structure. A recent plan for complete restoration of Eski Djamia was proposed, with the idea the place to become a “Museum of the Religions and Faiths”. Unfortunately, the misinformed citizens of Stara Zagora strongly oppose the restoration of the mosque, fearing that it can become an active Mosque. Of course, this is not possible, view the status of the Esqui Djamia as national monument of culture. Still this movement against the Islamic culture is an obstacle for financing and preserving the art and architecture of the mosque.
© 2009 Rossitza Ohridska-Olson – text, photography & English version.
Acknowledgments: Enormous thanks for the help of Dimitar Yankov, Vanya Tzenkova and Georgi Iliev from the Stara Zagora Regional Museum of History for the information provided.
The single-domed Qila-i-Kuna Mosque, built by Sher Shah in 1541 is an excellent example of a pre-Mughal design, and an early example of the extensive use of the pointed arch in the region as seen in its five doorways with the 'true' horseshoe-shaped arches. It was designed as a Jami Mosque, or Friday mosque for the Sultan and his courtiers. The prayer hall inside, the single-aisled mosque, measures 51.20m by 14.90m and has five elegant arched prayer niches or mihrabs set in its western wall. Marble in shades of red, white and slate is used for the calligraphic inscriptions on the central iwan, marks a transition from Lodhi to Mughal architecture. At one time, the courtyard had a shallow tank, with a fountain..
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A second storey, accessed through staircases from the prayer hall, with a narrow passage running along the rectangular hall, provided space for female courtiers to pray, while the arched doorway on the left wall, framed by ornate jharokas, was reserved for members of the royal family.[18] On a marble slab within the mosque an inscription reads: "As long as there are people on the earth, may this edifice be frequented and people be happy and cheerful in it"..
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Today it is the best preserved building in Purana Qila.
The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex of the Moorish monarchs of Granada, in southern Spain. It was the residence of the Muslim kings of Granada and their court, but is currently a museum exhibiting exquisite Islamic architecture.
The Mosque of Shaykh Lutfallah (initially Sadr Mosque). Situated in the east of the Maydan with its golden tiled dome. It was constructed for an important shaykh in 1602 and used as the private oratory of the shah and his family.
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, Fall 2002
MIT Course Instructor
Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
Architecture
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Holiday in Morocco.
The Hassan II Mosque, completed in 1993, is the largest mosque in Africa and the 7th largest in the world. Its minaret is the world's tallest.
Title: The Alcazar, Seville.
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Creator: Unknown
Date: February 26, 1922
Part of: Collection of photographs of Spain and Malta
Place: Seville, Spain
Physical Description: 1 photographic print on stereo card: gelatin silver; 10 x 18 cm
Upload File Name: ag2015_0007_80_opt.jpg
Rights: Please cite DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee. For details see the sites.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/research/permissions/ web page. For other information, contact degolyer@smu.edu.
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