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Tucked in south Delhi’s Deer Park, it is one of the Capital’s most beautiful Lodhi-era buildings. Bagh-I-Alam Ka Gumbad, circa 1501, is a small joy. Instead of being a lonely spinster, like the city’s other Lodhi tombs, it is full of life. Grass grows out of its battered stone slabs. Squirrels clamber over its arched niches. Pigeons perch at its Kangura battlements. Occasionally, their chatter gets so loud that you feel that there must be hundreds of birds inside, and that at any moment they would lift the monument and carry it along the Delhi sky..
The façade is built of dressed local stone with touches of red sandstone and blue ceramic tiles. It’s the surrounding slanting trees that tones down the ruin’s masculine touch..
Inside, there are three unknown tombs. The stone floor is splotched with bird droppings. The western wall has a mihrab recess. The eastern wall has stairs to the roof. The ceiling has delicate artwork etched within red bands. .
Adjoining the ruin is a Lodhi-era wall mosque. Octagonal domed towers guard the two ends of the wall, which faces west towards Mecca. The wall has five mihrab niches. Modestly sized minarets flank the central mihrab. The battlements are decorative. No longer used for prayers, the mosque’s character has grown a little elemental. The sights of its open-air yard are impressionistic: fallen leaves, dense moss and unknown tombs. Some good soul daily spreads out grains on the mosque’s floor for the pigeons to feed on. Come in the morning. As the day’s first rays fall on graves and the bird song rises in volume, you feel as if you are very close to God, or some such holy spirit..
Al-Ashraf Sayf-ad-Din Barsbay was the ninth Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt from AD 1422 to 1438. He was Circassian by birth and a former slave of the first Burji Sultan, Barquq.
He was responsible for a number of administrative reforms in the Mamluk state, including the consolidation of the sultanate as a military magistrature and securing for Egypt exclusive rights over the Red Sea trade between Yemen and Europe.[1]
His Red Sea activity included the final destruction in 1426 of ‘Aydhab, a once important port which had been in decline in the previous century.
His mausoleum, which included a madrasa and khanqah, was built in Cairo's Northern Cemetery, and has survived to this day.[2]
The Shah-i Zinda Complex in Samarqand (1360-1434). Named Shah-i Zinda (the Living King) after a cousin of the Prophet who reportedly disappeared in Samarqand, this funerary alley, dotted with exquisite domes built over 70 years for members of Timur's family, present the pinnacle of all the tile techniques known to the Timurids.
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4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, Fall 2002
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Rabbat, Nasser O.
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The Mosque of Ibn-Tulun: The furthest westerly evidence of the spread of the Abbasid imperial style. This mosque is distinguished by its combination of columns and piers (eastern and western influences), its spiralling minaret and exclusive dependence on brick as a building material. Its porticos are composed of brick piers with four engaged brick columns which run along its four sides.
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MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, Fall 2002
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Moth Ki Masjid is a mosque located in Delhi, and was built in 1505 by Wazir Miya Bhoiya, Prime Minister during the reign of Sultan Sikander Lodi (1517–26). It was a new type of mosque developed by the Lodi dynasty in the fourth city of the medieval Delhi of the Delhi Sultanate.[1][2][3] The name of the mosque literally translated into English language means ‘Lentil Mosque’ and this name tag ‘Lentil’ has an interesting legend. This mosque was considered a beautiful Dome (Gumbad) structure of the period.[1].
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The mosque is now completely enclosed within the modern locality of South Extension Part II, Uday Park and Masjid Moth comprising residential and commercial establishments in the urban setting of South Delhi..
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It is famously narrated that when Sultan Sikandar Lodi was on a visit to a mosque in the vicinity of the present location of the Moth Ki Masjid for prayer, he knelt over a grain of moth (a kind of lentil), which had been dropped by a bird. His loyal Prime Minister Wazir Miya Bhoiya, who had accompanied the King, saw the lentil seed and observed that.
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A seed so honoured by His majesty must not be thrown away. It must be used in the service of God..
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So he took the moth seed and planted it in his garden for further growth. Over the years, the process of repeated planting and replanting of the moth seeds was carried out. In this process, the seeds multiplied several times. The Wazir finally sold the rich harvest and earned good money. With the proceeds of the sale he built the mosque after seeking permission from the Sultan to construct the Mosque.[1] Impressed by the ingenuity of his minister, Sikandar Lodi laid the foundation for building the mosque.
Al-Ashraf Sayf-ad-Din Barsbay was the ninth Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt from AD 1422 to 1438. He was Circassian by birth and a former slave of the first Burji Sultan, Barquq.
He was responsible for a number of administrative reforms in the Mamluk state, including the consolidation of the sultanate as a military magistrature and securing for Egypt exclusive rights over the Red Sea trade between Yemen and Europe.[1]
His Red Sea activity included the final destruction in 1426 of ‘Aydhab, a once important port which had been in decline in the previous century.
His mausoleum, which included a madrasa and khanqah, was built in Cairo's Northern Cemetery, and has survived to this day.[2]
The Madrasa of Ulugh Beg in Samarqand (1417-20). Standing in front of the Registan square, this four-iwan madrasa has four domed chambers on the corners, possibly functioning as mausolea, and a vaulted prayer hall on the iwan axis. The Registan square was defined later by the addition of two other madrasas to form a locus of urban life.
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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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Shah Mosque is surrounded with four iwans and arcades. All the walls are ornarnented with seven-color mosaic tile. The most magnificent iwan of the mosque is the one facing the Qibla measuring 33 meters high. Behind this iwan is a space which is roofed with the largest dome in the city at 52 meters height. The dome is double layered.The acoustic properties and reflections at the central point under the dome is an amusing interest for many visitors.
Photograph of the Al-Azhar Mosque: Decorative niches and roundels on the wall of the mosque porticos.
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MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
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Rabbat, Nasser O.
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Photograph of Hamdy Residence (1979): main facade.
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MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
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Hooghly is a small town on the west bank of the holy river Ganges (Ganga), about 40 km from Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India.
Built on the land given by Mir Keramat Ali in 1861 by the famous Bengalee educationist & philanthropist Haji Muhammad Mahasin, this imposing building is an example of the past glory of Bengal. The tower is 150 feet tall, with a huge clock brought by Mir Keramat Ali from England. The clock has two dials run by a single central machine. It has three huge bells which rhyme till now. Probably the largest of such clock in India, it is a thing to see. Inside the Imambara there is a beautuful prayer hall called JARI DALAN where the holy Quran is recited & sermons are given by the Islamic priests. The biggest festival is Muharram, attended by people of all faiths.
As seen in a mosque at Al-Moez Street; one of the most peaceful and beautiful places in Islamic Cairo.
The mosque is notable for its façade, which is elaborately decorated with inscriptions and geometric carving. This is both the first mosque in Cairo to have such decoration, and it also the first to have a façade which follows the line of the street, built at an angle to the rectangular hypostyle hall whose orientation is dictated by the qibla direction.
multi shots were taken at Bet Karitiyyliah showing different pattern of Mashrabiyah , Alsidah Zienb, CAIRO , CANON EOS, APRIL 2014
Photograph of the Qubba of Imam al-Shafi'i: Mihrab.
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MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
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Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
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The Great Mosque of Niono, Mali (1973). A community effort, supervised by master builder Lassiné Minta, this mosque was initially built between 1945-48 and enlarged several times, the last of which between 1969-73. It is seen as conserving the cultural identity via the use of traditional, vernacular forms and methods of construction.
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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.
MIT Department
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Photograph of the Mosque of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad: Restored main mihrab showing the 14th century marble mosaic development.
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MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
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Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
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Tabatabayi house, Kashan, Iran. A 150~200 years old house in an ancient city in Iran. Now a museum and traditional cafeteria.
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Khaneh Tabatabaei-ha or "The Tabatabaeis' House" is a famous historic house in Kashan, Iran.
The house was built in the 1840s for the affluent Tabatabaei family.
It consists of a four beautiful courtyards, delightful wall paintings with elegant stained glass windows, and all the other classic signatures of Traditional Persian residential architecture such as biruni and andaruni.
It was designed by Ustad Ali Maryam. He is the same person who later on built the Boroujerdi-ha House, for the Tabatabaei's newly married daughter. (www.wikipedia.org)
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Taken with Canon EOS 10 QD (film camera)
Scanned with Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 9000 ED