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The Tomb of Itimad al-Dawla in Agra (1628). A low pavilion over a square plinth, situated in the center of a chahar bagh and surrounded by four minarets at the four corners. This is the first monument to employ white marble and pietra dura.
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MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, Fall 2002
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Rabbat, Nasser O.
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The Khanqah of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq: (1400-11). A very symmetrical composition which contains a hypostyle mosque, cells for sufis, and two minarets and two carved stone qubbas, which are the largest stone domes in Cairo. Interior of the dome with the four muqarnas squinches and the continuous knotted decorative pattern and inscription band around the drum (repainted in the 1980s).
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MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, Fall 2002
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Rabbat, Nasser O.
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Architecture
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Patron: al-Ashraf Sha'ban (al-Ashraf Zayn al-Din Abu al-Ma'ali Sha'ban ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Qalawun, or al-Ashraf Sha'ban, or Sha'ban II) 1353/54-1377, Bahri Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (r.1363–1377), for his mother Khwand Baraka (Lady Blessing or Umm al-Sultan, Mother of the Sultan). She was the concubine of Husayn, one of al-Nasir Muhammad's sons, and rose to fame when her son came to the throne at the age of ten.
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A mosque complex (külliye) was constructed on the site in 1458 by the Ottoman Turks only five years after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453.[1] By the end of the 18th century the mosque was in a ruinous state, perhaps as a result of earthquake damage, and in 1798 sultan Selim III ordered the whole structure other than the minarets to be pulled down and rebuilt. This work was completed in 1800. The eastern minaret was rebuilt in the original style by Mahmud II in 1822.
Eyüp Sultan is believed to have died during the first Arab siege of Constantinople in the 670s. His tomb is greatly venerated by Muslims. The mausoleum is on the north side of a courtyard opposite the main entrance to the prayer hall of the mosque. (Wikipedia)
The Wazir Khan Mosque (Punjabi/Urdu: مسجد وزیر خان Masjid Wazīr Khān) 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 AD, during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan. It was built by Hakim Shaikh Ilm-ud-din Ansari, a native of Chiniot, who rose to be the court physician to Shah Jahan and a governor of Lahore. He was commonly known as Wazir Khan, a popular title bestowed upon him (the wordWazir means 'minister' in Urdu and Persian). The mosque is inside the Inner City and is easiest accessed from Delhi Gate. The mosque contains some of the finest examples of Qashani tile work from the Mughal period.
The Citadel is belt by Mohamed Ali in historic heritage in Egypt,, is great attraction for all Tourists,, CAIRO,, EGYPT,, CANON EOS,, 2014
Probably the most exquisite mosque of western Islamic land, founded by 'Abd al-Rahman I in 786, enlarged several times, 832-48 under Abd al-Rahman II, 962 under al-Hakam II, and 987 by al-Mansur, the vizir of Hisham II (this time it was extended to the west). The Mosque has an intricate hypostyle arrangement with double-tiered, arched supports, ribbed domes above the maqsura, and a unique mihrab-chamber with mosaic decoration.
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4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, Fall 2002
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Architect; Kamil Khan Mumtaz, 2009 -,
A cluster of houses, gust rooms and studios for a large extended family on a farm.
As you would have gathered, the honeycomb brick work acts as temporary support for arch construction above. The man in grey standing on the ground has just thrown a brick to the man sitting near the top rung of the ladder, who has just caught it. Judging by the pile of bricks on the ground it must have taken a while to shift.
This main elevation with most of the living and sleeping accommodation of the owners house will face a large garden with a swimming pool.
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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)
The mosque was built on the site of old Mamluk buildings in Cairo's Citadel between 1830 and 1848, although not completed until the reign of Said Pasha in 1857. The architect was Yusuf Bushnak from Istanbul and its model was the Yeni Mosque in that city. The ground on which the mosque was erected was built with debris from the earlier buildings of the Citadel.
Title: Alhambra. The Lovely Generalife Palace.
Creator: Garzon, Rafael, 1863-1923
Date: ca. 1870-1899
Part Of: Collection of photographs of Spain and Malta
Place: Granada, Spain
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I noticed that many of my flickr contact friends(yeah,we're friends ayte?) have gone to Turkey, at least once. The beautiful, majestic architectures of its buildings and mosques never failed to amaze people from around the world, especially me.
This mosque above is a 17th century, typical Ottoman Empire architecture located in the very heart of Istanbul.
So here is an easy question for all you guys out there, can you identify this Mosque?(Or in Turkish, Camii).
Hint: It's in Istanbul, it's located next to a river, took 66 years to complete after six Sultans(can you believe it??) and it's not the Blue Mosque,of course.
The Mosque of #Ahmad_Ibn_Tulun is the largest mosque in #Cairo, #Egypt. and may be the oldest mosque in the city with its original form. The mosque was commissioned by Ahmad Ibn Tulun, the Abbassid governor of Egypt from 868–884.The minaret features a helical outer staircase similar to that of the famous minaret in #Samarra.
The mosque was constructed on a small hill called #Gebel_Yashkur (English: The Hill of Thanksgiving) - Wikipedia
I'll be rebuilding this, replacing the Sand Blue w/Sand Green and the Dark Grey with White, for use atop a structure I'm currently building.
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 Mosque of Quwwat al-Islam (Might of Islam) (1193-99, 1220-29, and 1316). Delhi's earliest congregational mosque started by Aybak, the first Mamluk sultan of Delhi. It shows the conflict between the Hindu building tradition and the architectural requirements of mosques. It was enlarged twice.
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4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, Fall 2002
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The Putra Mosqu is the main mosque in Putrajaya, the federal administrative centre of Malaysia. Photo: Trinn Suwannapha / World Bank
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The Eski Djamia
History
It was inaugurated in September 1409, as an inscription in the prayer’s vault tells 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 below the floor of 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 cm (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) was situated there. Below the eastern wall of the mosque was discovered a ritual pit from the Early Iron Age (1000 years BC). The ceramic kilns, discovered during the 2001-04 excavations, date from the 5th and 6th C. A.D. The long history of the sacred place, where the mosque is located, has layers of civilization from 1000 years before the common era to 19th century.
Between 2001 and 2004, the archaeologists discovered a stelae 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 building to survive 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 it 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).
The first big reconstruction of the mosque was performed in the middle of the 19th century, just after a fire, which destroyed the adjoined bazaar in 1856. 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 in 1927. In 1979 it is declared as national monument of architecture.
Wall paintings, frescoes and calligraphy
The majority of the wall paintings (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 the Turkish Empire, many of the mosques and examples of Ottoman architecture and arts were destroyed. The reason was the anger and hatred of the Bulgarian people against 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 building remaining 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 mosque 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 of that the place should 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, viewing the status of the Eski 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.
This imperial Ottoman Mosque stands in Aksaray district, Istanbul. It was ordered built by the mother of Sultan Abdulaziz in 1869 AD. It is an eclectic mixture of Imperial Ottoman, Baroque, and Gothic styles.
There was a duststorm in Muscat that day, but the pictures turned out to be ok.
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as my personal favorite.
قام بإنشاء هذا القصر الأمير سيف الدين طاز بن عبدالله الناصرى ، وكان من مماليك السلطان الناصر محمد بن قلاوون ، حيث اعتق ، ثم ترقى فى الوظائف ، وارتفع نجمة وصيته حتى عين أمير مجلس ، وتدخل فى الصراع الدائر على العرش بين أولاد الناصرمحمد ، وظل محتفظا بمكانته ، حيث اشتهر ذكره فى أيام الملك الصالح إسماعيل 743 - 746 هـ / 1342 - 1345 م .
Title: Alcazar de Sevilla. Patio de las Doncellas.
Alternative Title: [Alcazar of Seville. Patio of the Maidens.]
Creator: Bauchy, Emilio
Date: ca. 1870-1899
Part Of: Collection of photographs of Spain and Malta
Place: Seville, Spain
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: albumen; 23 x 29 cm
File: ag2015_0007_25_opt.jpg
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Islamia College, Peshawar.
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