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Verinag is towards the end of the Kashmir valley not far from the Banihal Pass. The Mughal Emperor,Jahangir built a palace and garden here, he wrote.... 'When I was a prince I had given an order that they should erect a building at this spring suitable to the place. It is now completed. There was a reservoir of an octagonal shape...Round halls with domes had been erected and there was a garden in front of them ...round the reservoir was a stone walk...'
Today only the octagonal reservoir with its stone walkway and arched recesses is left of what was the fountain court of Jahangir’s palace. Inside some of the recesses are small flights of steps which must have once led to rooms above, and there are the remnants of some finely carved stone brackets jutting from the wall which may have supported balconies. Two original stones, inscribed in Persian, are set into the wall along the walkway – one gives the date of the building, 1609, and the other tells the name of the builder, ‘constructed by Haidar, by order of Jahangir’.
(from Travels in Kashmir, by Brigid Keenan)
ISFAHAN, Iran — Iranian people gather for some leisure time by the shore of the Zayandeh river in Isfahan and the beautiful architecture of the old Khaju bridge from the era of Silk Road caravans and Safavid dynasty.
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هيچ كنجي بي دد و بي دام نيست
جز به خلوتگاه حق آرام نيست
حضرت مولانا
Jame-e-Abbasi Mosque ( Shah Mosque or Imam Mosque )مسجد جامع عباسي , Isfahan
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Learning about different cultures gives us a profound respect for how people are different, and also for how we are the same.
Beach facing side of the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, captured from the terrace of the suite I stayed at.
Remarkable hotel by any standard.
This is a 4-stop, dynamically blended photograph. Highlights and shadows were controlled with hand-painted luminance masks. Final toning was achieved with Topaz ReStyle and Viveza 2 plugin.
Royal Town Masjid, Kelang, Selangor, Malaysia
Single exposure + GND 0.9 Lee filter
I would normally shoot HDR but decided not to since the jetty I was standing on was supported with only floats thus making it unstable.
On the path toward the construction site of the new Center of Islamic Civilization in Tashkent, I crossed paths with these two cheerful tourists. Framed by patterned shadows and spontaneous laughter, they happily struck a pose — turning a construction barrier into their personal stage.
Sometimes, the most memorable moments aren’t part of the plan — they just happen.
The new active mosque is located to the side of the ruins and serves the Muslim community of Quanzhou which has a history of over 1000 years.
Quite contrary to the propaganda spread outside of China, the Chinese people have a pretty continuous thousands of years of tolerance toward real religions, even those coming from abroad. This I experienced first hand living and exploring there as a Muslim throughout most of the 2010s. Such that it wasn't only Buddhism which penetrated deep into the Middle Kingdom from India, but also Islam was protected and allowed to spread ever since the Song dynasty.
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Prayer Hall, Jama Masjid (Mosque), Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh, India. This stunning, immense mosque, still in use today, was completed in 1571 and contains elements of Persian and Indian design. The magnificent fortified ancient city of Fatehpur Sikri, 40km west of Agra, was the short-lived capital of the Mughal Empire between 1572 and 1585, during the reign of Emperor Akbar.
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...taken on the stairs going up to the Qubbat As-Sakhrah on the Temple Mount...
Jerusalem, Israel...
A shot of the side of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul showing 3 ladies leaving the mosque through the side door and looking visibly satisfied with their visit.
JAMKARAN, Qom, Iran — Looking up the lit up minaret of the Jamkaran mosque at night, a famous mosque dedicated to Imam Mahdi, the Messiah in Islam, receiving millions of pilgrims every year.
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NISHAPUR, Khorasan Razavi, Iran — Detail of beautiful floral pattern decoration of a mosque in Nishapur, Iran, with golden painted tiles on a blue and turquoise background.
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