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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
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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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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Photograph of the Mosque of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad: Restored main mihrab showing the 14th century marble mosaic development.
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
MIT Course Instructor
Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
Architecture
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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
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.
Photograph of the Mosque of Sinan Pasha in Bulaq after Pascal Coste.
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
MIT Course Instructor
Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
Architecture
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I used a double concave 45 slope brick, snotted in upside-down, to crown each corner of the building and liked the effect of bringing the carved indents together to a sharp corner.
Central Dome Mosques Based on Four Supports with Two or More Half-Domes (1550-57). The largest Ottoman half-domed mosque, it sits on the top of the sixth hill that dominates the city and cascades down in a pyramidical arrangement of its domes, half-domes, counterweights, and butresses. The mosque forms the center of a kulliye with a dar al-hadith, four madrasas, an imaret, a tabkhane, a mektab, a medical school (tibb medrese), bath, fountain, and the mausolea of the founder, his wife, and Sinan himself (in a corner).
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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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Shot from another angle after the previous attempt and egged on by the security guard's remark "Sir, aapke camera mein poora nahi fit hoga. Bahar jaake kheecho.." (Translation: Sir, the entire structure won't fit into your camera, go outside the compound and give it a try)
Hmmm....
Walking down one of the many small picturesque streets within the Albaicín. Did you know that many of the homes here are built inside of caves? No visit to the south of Spain is complete until you have visited one of Andalusia’s most unique neighborhoods, the charming Arabic quarter filled with Muslim influence. The Albaicín, is located in the city of Granada, across the Darro River from the Alhambra fortress and palace. This Moorish “barrio” is just one of the many treasures of traveling through Andalusia and southern Spain.
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November - December 2014.
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.
The Gur-i-Amir Mausoleum in Samarqand (1404). Initially a religious complex appropriated to build a tomb for Timur's grandson Muhammad Sultan, it became the burial place for Timur and his male descendants. It formed a part of a larger religious complex, and a later madrasa abutted on its side. The double-shell dome achieves both an interior harmony and an exterior verticality.
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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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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..
Photograph of the Madrasa of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad: The Gothic Portal of the Madrasa, which was taken from a church in Crusader Acre.
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Image courtesy of Nasser Rabbat of the Aga Khan Program at MIT.
MIT OpenCourseWare Course of Origin
4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
MIT Course Instructor
Rabbat, Nasser O.
MIT Department
Architecture
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The Western wall of the masjid is very unique and attractive with Qutub Minar like pillars behind the main mihraab and beautiful turrets and jharokas at the corners..
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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.
The Sabil-Kuttab of Sultan Qaytbay (1479). The earliest stand-alone Sabil-Kuttab in Cairo, it establishes the type as a pietistic endowment in the urban milieu without it being attached to a larger religious complex.
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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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The new mosque in Redditch is being built in stages as the local Muslim community raises funds.
These images were taken early on a Spring morning. Speaking personally I like Islamic architecture and this is a fine addition to the places of worship in this area.
Maidan-e-Brick - initial four (out of either 8 or 10) 48x48 modules - the main city square of Brickhara, capital of Brickistan
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.
Archaeological excavations carried out since 1954 have unearthed antiquities from an artificial mound of 12 m (39 ft) height containing seven stratified layers, created by various occupants from 2300 BC up to the 18th century, including Kassites, Greeks, Portuguese and Persians. It was once the capital of the Dilmun civilization and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.