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This is one of the old pictures we had taken with our film cameras during our 2007 trip to Iran and already uploaded to Flickr. We have now rescanned it to improve its quality (or at least try to).
Photograph of one of the cast iron porticos designed for the Gazira Palace in Neo-Moorish style by the German architect Karl von Dibitsch.
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4.615 The Architecture of Cairo, Spring 2002
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Rabbat, Nasser O.
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Built 1399 and 1404, commemorates Timur's wife buried in a tomb located in a madrasa complex close by.
A contemporary chronicler relates that Timur brought in architects from Iran and India for the project (he had sacked Delhi in 1398) and used ninety-five elephants to haul construction material. One of the models for the building likely was the great mosque erected in Sultaniyya by the Ilkhanid (Mongol) ruler Uljaytu.
"Timur's mosque was designed not only to continue Iranian imperial tradition, but also to symbolize his conquest of the world."
depts.washington.edu/silkroad/cities/uz/samarkand/bibi.html In the 15th century it was one of the largest and most magnificent mosques in the Islamic world. By the mid-20th century only a grandiose ruin of it still survived, but now major parts of the mosque have been restored.
After his Indian campaign in 1399 Timur decided to undertake the construction of a gigantic mosque in his new capital.
When Timur (Tamerlane) returned from his military campaign in 1404 the mosque was almost completed. However, Timur was not happy with the progress of construction, therefore he had immediately made various changes, especially concerning the main cupola.
From the beginning of the construction, problems of statistical regularity of the structure revealed themselves. Various reconstructions and reinforcements were undertaken in order to save the mosque. However, after just a few years, the first bricks had begun to fall out of the huge dome over the mihrab.
IIt forced Timur to retaliate often beyond the structural rules. His builders were certainly aware of that, however he didn't want to accept their opinion and reality. [4][5]
In the late 16th century the Abdullah Khan II (Abdollah Khan Ozbeg) (1533/4-1598), the last Shaybanid Dynasty Khan of Bukhara, cancelled all restoration works in Bibi Khonym Mosque.
After that, the mosque came down and became a ruins gnawed at by the wind, weather, and earthquakes. The inner arch of the portal construction collapsed in 1897.[7][8] During the centuries the ruins were plundered by the inhabitants of Samarkand in search of building material especially the brick of masonry galleries along with the marble columns.
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Follows the basic plan of the courtyard mosque.
The cupola of the main chamber is 40 m high.
Formerly, there were open galleries measuring 7.2 m high inside the courtyard. Their cover was formed from the juxtaposition of many small, flat brick vaults and domes supported by a forest of more than 400 marble columns and buttresses. Today, only hints of the galleries can be seen.
Four minarets at the outer corners of the site have been restored. Four other, more majestic minarets that flanked the Portal arch of the entrance and the Pischtak of the main domed building are not completed yet.
In the middle of the courtyard is located the stone pedestal - the huge Quran stand crafted from ornate marble blocks. This remarkable sight originates from the time of Timur.
The huge Bibi Khonym Mosque with its three domed rooms, the covered galleries and the open courtyard was intended to gather the entire male population of Samarkand city for the joint Friday prayers.
In the construction of three domes of Bibi-Khanym mosque, sophisticated in Timur's time, one important innovation was applied: a two-fold construction, where the internal dome hall neither by the form nor by height corresponds to the dome's shape from outside. There is a hollow space between the inner ceiling and the outer cupola. This dome construction allowed the main hall of the mosque to be committed to the proportions and the aesthetics of the 30 m high interior above the mihrab. Meanwhile, the 40 m high outer dome of the main building could be designed for maximal impression and visibility. This scheme was applied also to the lateral dome structures that allowed making modest buildings the figuration tower-like structures with elegant melon-shaped and longitudinally ribbed outer domes
Photograph of La Zisa Palace: Main Facade of the Palace.
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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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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.
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 Malwiyya: the famous spiraling, free-standing minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra. It was repeatedly compared to Mesopotamian Ziggurats.
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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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Shams-ud-din Iltutmish was the third ruler of the Slave dynasty. He founded the Delhi Sultanate in 1211 and received the Caliph's investure in his rule. He conquered Multan and Bengal from contesting rulers, and Ranathambhore and Siwalik from the Hindu rulers.
Shams-ud-dunya w'al-din Abu al-Muzzafar Naib Amir Almu'minin Iltutmish (Hindi: अलतमश; Persian: شمس الدین التتمش; Altamash, Iltutmish, r. 1211–1236) was the third ruler of the Slave dynasty of Turkic origin. Presumably a descendent of Turkic nobility captured and enslaved, Iltutmish later rose to prominence in the court of Muhammad Ghuri and later in Lahore under Qutb-uddin Aibak. He dethroned Aibak's successor, Aram Shah, and moved the seat of the Sultan to Delhi.
He expanded his domain by defeating the Muslim rulers of Ghazni, Multan and Bengal, which previously annexed some of his territories and threatened his domain. He conquered the latter two territories and made further conquests in the Hindu lands, conquering the fort of Ranathambhore and the lands of Gawalior and the fort of Mandur.
He instituted many changes to the Sultanate, reorganising the monetary system and the nobility as well as the distribution of grounds and fiefs, and erected many buildings, including Mosques, Khanqas (Monasteries), Dargahs (Graves) and a Hauz (reservoir) for pilgrims.
Shams ud-din Iltutmish founded the Delhi Sultanate and much strengthened the power of the slave dynasty and of Islam in the Indian Deccan, although his kindred and heirs were not as politically gifted, with no ruler comparable to him in the area until the time of Ghiyas ud din Balban.
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..
Süleymaniye Mosque Complex, Istanbul
Roxelana was Suleiman's slave and favorite wife. she used her powers over him to arrange the deaths of his able grand Vizier and Suleiman's own son by another woman so as to advance her own power and install her drunken son Selim on the throne.
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Built by Khalif Niyaz-kul, wealthy Bukharan of Turkmen origin C19th century under the rule of the Janid dynasty.
Char-Minar is actually a complex of buildings with two functions, ritual and shelter. Originally, part of a complex of a madrasa, which was demolished.The building has no analogs in the architecture of Bukhara, and the inspiration and motives of Niyazkul are unclear.
The main edifice is a mosque. In spite of its unusual outward shape, the building has a typical interior for a Central Asian mosque. Owing to the buildings cupola, the room has good acoustic properties and therefore takes on special significance of 'dhikr-hana' – a place for ritualized 'dhikr' ceremonies of Sufi, the liturgy of which often include recitation, singing, and instrumental music.
Consequently, for full functioning of madrasa only of classroom and some utility rooms is lacking. However, it was common practice that so-called madrasahs had no lecture rooms or, even if they had, no lectures had been given in them. These madrasahs were employed as student hospices.
The towers of Chor Minor are not minarets. Three of them were used for storage, and one has a staircase leading to the top floor.
Each of four towers have different deco rational motifs.
Some say that elements of decoration reflect the four religions known to Central Asians. One can find elements reminiscent of a cross, a Christian fish motif, and a Buddhist praying-wheel, in addition to Zoroastrian and Islamic motifs.
The Dolmabahçe Mosque, Istanbul (1852-53). Is built by the first of the Balian family of architects, Karabet, as an adaptation of a neo-classical style to the requirements of a small royal mosque. Its minarets take the shape of Corinthian columns. It, and the palace that gave it its name, are two examples of the strong influence of Western models in late Ottoman architecture.
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4.614 Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures, Fall 2002
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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.
The corners of the Western wall have beautiful turrets and jharokas..
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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.
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, July 2009
Gazi Husrev Bey's Mosque (Bosnian: Gazihusrevbegova džamija, Turkish: Gazi Hüsrev Bey Camii), also known as Begova džamija (Bey's Mosque) is considered the most important Islamic structure in Bosnia-Herzegovina and is cosidered as one of the world's finest examples of Ottoman Architecture. It is located in the Baščaršija neighborhood in the Stari Grad (Old Town) municipality, and remains one of the most popular centers of worship in the city.
The mosque was financed in 1531 by Gazi Husrev-beg, the provincial governor of Bosnia. Husref-beg is widely considered Sarajevo's greatest patron, as he financed much of Sarajevo's old city at this time.
The Gazi Husrev-Beg Mosque was built by the famous Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan, who would later go on to build the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey, for the Sultan Selim I.
It is the first mosque in the world that got electricity (1898).
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 .
The subject of this photo still at Putrajaya but this time, new completion of masjid besi at Precint 3. This interior is at main prayer hall. The most fantastic in this photo is about the scale. We can see the proportionate of human scale and the enclose space. While at the top is a main massive dome as a significant for the Islamic architecture. Another things is the parameter of building's facade doesn't block natural cross ventilation as it brings also cold breeze to low down the internal hot temperature.
Patron: Yunus al-Dawadar (Jonah, the Inkstand-holder), executive secretary for Sultan Barquq (al-Malik al-Zahir Sayf al-Din Barquq (plumb)) 1336-1399, Burji (Circassian) Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (r. 1382-1389 & 1390-1399)). Al-Dawadar was not buried here, but in Syria, where he died. Sultan Barquq's father, Anas, was buried here before being moved to Barquq's khanqah further north in the cemetery.
Islamic Monument #139