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The Masjid Dimaukom or Pink Mosque is a mosque in Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao, ARMM. The mosque's construction was financed by Datu Saudi Ampatuan Mayor, Samsodin Dimaukon. The land where the mosque was built was a property of the mayor's family. The mosque was painted pink to symbolize peace and love and was built by Christian workmen to symbolize unity and inter-faith brotherhood.
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Ziarat-e-Roza-e-Rasool Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa Sallalaho Alaihay Waa-Alayhi Wassalam (S.A.W.W)
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Superb Azan Masjid Nabwwi Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa Sallalaho Alaihay Waa-Alayhi Wassalam (Must Watch)
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Masjid Nabwwi Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (S.A.W.W), Madina Al Munnawara, Saudi Arabia
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Masjid Nabwwi (S.A.W.W) Moving Dome (Siraktay Gumbad), Madina Al Munnawara, Islamic Architecture
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Al-Azhar Mosque (Arabic: الجامع الأزهر, romanized: al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit. 'The Resplendent Congregational Mosque'), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic Islamic core of the city. Commissioned by Jawhar al-Siqilli shortly after Cairo was established as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970, it was the first mosque established in a city that eventually earned the nickname "the City of a Thousand Minarets".[b] Its name is usually thought to derive from az-Zahrāʾ (meaning "the shining one"), a title given to Fatimah, the daughter of Muhammad.
I revisited Iran so many times that I have lost count. But in 2014 , January - I revisited Esfahan, Mashhad , Kashan and Tehran.
The photo above shows Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in Esfahan in the famous Emam Square .
The Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Arabic: مسجد إبن طولون, romanized: Masjid Ibn Ṭūlūn) is located in Cairo, Egypt. It is one of the oldest mosques in Egypt as well as the whole of Africa surviving in its full original form, and is the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area. It is built around an open square courtyard which allows natural light to travel through. Ibn Tulun Mosque features ancient architecture styles of Egypt, its decorations being created from carved stucco and wood.
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The Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail is one of only three Moroccan shrines that non-Muslims can visit. Moulay Ismail is remembered for driving out the Spanish from Morocco, uniting the country and his establishment of the Alaouite dynasty. His strict observance of orthodox Islamic ritual has also conferred a kinf od salutary, or healing power on him. You will see many Moroccans visiting the shrine seeking baraka or intercession to receive health, well-being and luck. The Mausoleum consists of a series of courts and chambers that are intricately decorated, making this building a superb example of Islamic architecture. Behind these courts lie the sanctuary that holds the remains of Moulay Ismail and his family members.
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The Corniche Mosque, Jedda, Saudi Arabia (1986). One of a series of small mosques commissioned by the Saudi government and designed by the Egyptian architect Abd al-Wahid al-Wakil. He freely blends together forms, and even fragments of forms, to create plastic, sculpture-like structures. The results are always visually pleasing, but somewhat disturbing in their indifference toward the disparate, and sometimes clashing, traditions from which they were copied.
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The warm tone at sunset caught my eye as we were driving through Umm Al Quwain, one of the 7 emirates that make the United Arab Emirates.
Title: Sala de la Justicia y Patio de los Leones.
Alternative Title: [Hall of Justice and Patio of the Lions.]
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 18 cm on 29 x 21 cm
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Nakhoda Masjid is Kolkata's principal mosque. Located at the crossing of Chitpur Road (Rabindra Sarani & Zakaria Street in Chitpur Area of central Calcutta the 1926 buit mosque consists of three domes, two minars and 25 minarets. The minars are each 151 feet hight while the height of the minarets varry from 100 fett to 117 feet in height.
Built at a cost of 1.5 million rupees (1926 estimate) by Abdur Rahim Osman of the Kutchi Memon Jamat, a small Sunni Muslim community of mariners from Kutch, Gujrat. The word Nakhoda means Marinier.
Built as an imitation of Sikandra, Agra the main prayer hall of the Nakhoda Mosque has a capacity of 10,000. The gateway to Nakhoda Masjid is designed in the liens of Buland Darwaza of Fathepur Sikri. (Source: Wikipedia)
Title: Entrada de la Sala de los Dos hermanas, desde el Patio de lose Leones.
Alternative Title: [Entrance of the Hall of the Two Sisters, from the Patio of the Lions.]
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 21 cm
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Also known as al-Rabemayyah (Water Apartments, i.e. near the canal).
Patron: Amir Ali Agha Katkhuda al-Gawshiyya
Islamic Monument #540
I did not seem to be able to capture the good view of the mosque from outside since the sun is facing me everytime I want to take a shot. But this one solved the problem and gave me a good backlight
Location : Umayyad Mosque , Aleppo - Syria
Title: Seville. Alcazar. Patio de las Doncellas.
Alternative Title: [Seville. Alcazar. Patio of the Maidens.]
Creator: Unknown
Date: ca. 1870-1899
Part of: Collection of photographs of Spain and Malta
Place: Seville, Spain
Physical Description: 1 photographic print on stereo card: gelatin silver; 9 x 17 cm
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Title: Granada. Alhambra. Patio de la Mezquita, Fachada Oeste.
Alternative Title: [Granada. Alhambra. Courtyard of the Mosque, West Facade.]
Creator: Garzon, Rafael, 1863-1923
Date: ca. 1870-1899
Part Of: Collection of photographs of Spain and Malta
Place: Granada, Spain
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: albumen; 26 x 21 cm
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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 Imam Mosque or Masjed-e Imām (Persian: مسجد امام), formaly known as Shah Mosque is a mosque in Isfahan (Esfahān), Iran standing in south side of Naghsh-i Jahan Square.
Built during the Safavids period, it is an excellent example of Islamic architecture of Iran, and regarded as the masterpiece of Persian Architecture. The Shah Mosque of Esfahan is one of the everlasting masterpieces of architecture in Iran and all over the world. It is registered along with the Naghsh-i Jahan Square as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its construction began in 1611, and its splendor is mainly due to the beauty of its seven-color mosaic tiles and calligraphic inscriptions.
The architects of the mosque are reported to be the following masters:
Ustad Ali Akbar Isfahani
Ustad Fereydun Naini
Ustad Shoja' Isfahani
The mosque is one of the treasures featured on Around the World in 80 Treasures presented by the architecture historian Dan Cruickshank.
مسجد امام یا مسجد شاه که به مسجد جامع عباسی نیز شهرت دارد یکی از مساجد میدان نقش جهان اصفهان است که در طی دوران صفوی ساخته شد و از بناهای مهم معماری اسلامی ایران بهشمارمیرود. این بنا شاهکاری جاویدان از معماری، کاشیکاری و نجاری در قرن یازدهم هجری است.
این مسجد که در ضلع جنوبی میدان امام قرار دارد در سال ۱۰۲۰ هجری به فرمان شاه عباس اول در بیست و چهارمین سال سلطنت وی شروع شده و تزئینات و الحاقات آن در دوره جانشینان او به اتمام رسیده است.
معمار مهندس آن استاد علیاکبر اصفهانی و ناظر ساختمان محبعلی بیک الله بودهاند. و خوشنویسانی چون علیرضا عباسی، عبدالباقی تبریزی، محمد رضا امامی، محمد صالح امامی در آن کتیبهنگاری کردهاند.
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.
Architect: Youssef Melehi, 2008. Interior view of the new railway station's main entrance with modern take on arch and mashrabiya screen. The entrance faces approximately east and the road in front is Ave. Mohammed VI, Marrakech, Morocco.
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The Bass Rock is a magnificent crag of volcanic Phonolite of Carboniferous age, rising 350 feet out of the Firth of Forth and is a landmark feature seen from both the Fife and Lothian shores.
Almost every available inch of the rock is occupied by razorbills, guillemots, cormorants, puffins, eider ducks and various gull species. However, the true lord of the Bass is the Gannet or Solan Goose (Fou de Bassan en francais) with a breeding colony of between 30,000 to 40,000 breeding pairs. The white flecks in my photo are gannets and not snow and a single gannet flies upper right. The building on the shore lower right is the magnificent Tantallon Castle, a royalist stronghold, which was almost destroyed by the cannons of Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarian army.
The Rock was turned into a prison for Presbyterian ministers in the 1600’s and around forty religious/political prisoners died in its dungeons. In 1691 a party of four Jacobite prisoners escaped from their cells and captured the fortress when the garrison was busy unloading coal. For the next three years they held the fortress for the Old Pretender (Bonny Prince Charlie's father) and aided by supply ships from France, even carried out raids on the Fife and Lothian shores. In 1694 a more effective blockade forced them to surrender, but not before these brave men had negotiated favourable terms and they walked away free men. One good thing that came from their exploits was that the fortress and horrible gaol were demolished only seven years later. In 1706 the crown sold the rock to Sir Hugh Dalrymple and his descendants own it still. Apart from the occasional maintenance visits to the unmanned lighthouse (which we can see flashing from our house each evening), the rock now belongs to the Empire of the Birds and not mankind.