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The Süleymaniye Mosque is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey. It is the second largest mosque in the city, and one of the best-known sights of Istanbul.The Süleymaniye Mosque, built on the order of Sultan Süleyman, "was fortunate to be able to draw on the talents of the architectural genius of Mimar Sinan. The construction work began in 1550 and the mosque was finished in 1557.
Melaka Straits Mosque, near Melaka City, Malaysia.
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La mosquée et le pavillon des invités sont les deux bâtiments rouges de part et d'autres du mausolée du Taj Mahal. Ils sont censés être totalement identiques, pour une question de symétrie, mais en réalité ils diffèrent légèrement l'un de l'autre. Les deux sont sur le "Chameli Farsh", c'est le nom qu'on donne à la terasse à 9m de hauteur qu'il y a au bout du complexe du Taj Mahal et qui contient, outre le mausolée, la mosquée et le pavillon des invités, deux bassins remplis d'eau, entre les bâtiments annexes et le bâtiment principal.
Bezmialem Valide Sultan Mosque was building by the architect Nikogos Balyan who created many important works in the 19th century Ottoman architecture. Bezmialem Valide Sultan Mosque attention with its baroque style architecture.
Sheikh Zayed Mosque, reflection pool, Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2023
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This image was inspired by the majestic Great Mosque of Xi'an in a vibrant, whimsical Asian mountainscape, teeming with exotic flowers, winding pathways, and ancient trees. The scene is set at dusk, with warm, golden light casting long shadows across the intricately tiled mosque, as the surrounding mountains are painted with hues of sapphire, amethyst, and rose. The atmosphere is mystical, with a sense of ancient history and wonder.
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Istanbul is an incredible place to visit. This image features just the Blue Mosque which is one of many historical sites around the city. Istanbul is a melting pot of culture and historical events. The Blue Mosque, as it is popularly known, was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah and a hospice. Hand-painted blue tiles adorn the mosque’s interior walls and, at night, the mosque is bathed in blue as lights frame the mosque’s five main domes, six minarets and eight secondary domes. It sits next to the Hagia Sophia, another impressive historical destination in the city.
The Nur-Astana Mosque (Kazakh: Nur-Astana meshiti), is a mosque in Astana, Kazakhstan. It is third largest mosque in Central Asia.
Stoke Newington, Hackney, London. Originally The Apollo Picture House built in 1913 it went through various name changes and closed as a cinema in 1983. It was bought by the UK Turkish Islamic Association and, eventually, converted into a mosque, restaurant, butchers shop and school. It is unique in that services are conducted in Turkish as opposed to the usual Arabic or English.
The Blue Mosque, or Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii), built between 1609-1616, showcases a novel engineering technique of stacking domes to support its vast, spacious interior. Inspired by Byzantine architecture, the large central dome is flanked by smaller semi-domes, distributing the roof’s weight effectively. This creates an open, grand interior while maintaining structural stability, making it an architectural marvel of the Ottoman Empire.
Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2023
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The Mustafa Pasha Mosque is an Ottoman-era mosque located in the Old Bazaar of Skopje, North Macedonia. The mosque was built in 1492 by Mustafa Pasha, vizier on the court of Sultan Selim I. A five-year renovation of the mosque, funded by the Turkish government, was completed in August 2011.
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Badshahi Mosque was commissioned by Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671, with construction of the mosque lasting for two years until 1673. The mosque is an important example of Mughal architecture, with an exterior that is decorated with carved red sandstone with marble inlay. It remains the largest and most recent of the grand imperial mosques of the Mughal-era, and is the second-largest mosque in Pakistan.[4] After the fall of the Mughal Empire, the mosque was used as a garrison by the Sikh Empire and the British Empire, and is now one of Pakistan's most iconic sights.
Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Built in 1712. The wooden painted columns were added in 1917 to help support the sagging exterior roof. It served as a Friday mosque during the time when the emir of Bukhara was being subjugated under the Bolshevik Russian rule in the 1920s.
Mosques litter the skyline in the Middle East, however if your stop and look intricate and beautiful details always reveal themselves.
It was possibly built as early as in the 15th century by Bengal Sultanate and evidences suggest it could be either a jail or a tomb, but not a mosque, while it is more popular to be called as Mosque or Masjid.
The name Chika is also connected to bat as there are numerous bats inside the hall.
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At Taksim Square in Istanbul, under construction. All the flags are for the celebration of Ataturk's birthday.
Suleymaniye mosque, Fatih district, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2020
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This Ottoman imperial mosque was built in 1557. The mosque was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. For 462 years, the Süleymaniye Mosque was the largest mosque in the city, until it was surpassed by the Çamlıca Mosque in 2019
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The Red Mosque is a building in the palace gardens at Schwetzingen. It was built under Prince-elector Charles-Theodore in the 18th century for the main reason that "Turkish style" was fashionable at the time. The architecture has certain elements which you wouldn't find in a real mosque and it was never intended for prayer but it later served religious purposes at various times.
La mosquée Kuqa est la deuxième plus grande mosquée du Xinjiang , juste après la mosquée Id Kah à Kashgar . Fait de briques, il a été reconstruit après l'incendie de la mosquée d'origine en 1931. Dans son enceinte se trouve le seul tribunal religieux du Xinjiang. La mosquée Kuqa est la seule mosquée de Chine à avoir conservé le système de la chariya (tribunal islamique).
La première porte de la mosquée mesure 18,3 mètres de haut, construite en brique bleue. La mosquée est composée du minaret Xuanli, d'une grande salle, d'un tombeau inconnu, de la salle d'apprentissage des Écritures, du tribunal religieux, etc., couvrant une vaste superficie de 1 165 000 mètres carrés. La salle de culte de la mosquée mesure 1500 mètres carrés et peut accueillir 3000 personnes.
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Doha, Katara mosque, Qatar, May 2023
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The Bibi-Khanum Mosque, one of the most important sights in Samarkand. In the 15th century it was one of the largest + most magnificent mosques in the Islamic world.
Until the middle of the 20th century, all that remained of it was a ruin; large parts of the mosque are now being reconstructed
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Die Bibi-Khanum Moschee, eine der bedeutendsten Sehenswürdigkeiten Samarkands. Im 15. Jahrh. eine der größten + prächtigsten Moscheen der islamischen Welt.
Bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrh. war von ihr nur noch eine Ruine erhalten geblieben, inzwischen werden große Teile der Moschee rekonstruiert
Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco.
The Hassan II Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الحسن الثاني, French: Grande Mosquée Hassan II) is a mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. It is the second largest functioning mosque in Africa and is the 7th largest in the world. Its minaret is the world's second tallest minaret at 210 metres (689 ft). Completed in 1993, it was designed by Michel Pinseau under the guidance of King Hassan II and built by Moroccan artisans from all over the kingdom. The minaret is 60 stories high topped by a laser, the light from which is directed towards Mecca. The mosque stands on a promontory looking out to the Atlantic Ocean; worshippers can pray over the sea but there is no glass floor looking into the sea. The walls are of hand-crafted marble and the roof is retractable. A maximum of 105,000 worshippers can gather together for prayer: 25,000 inside the mosque hall and another 80,000 on the mosque's outside ground.—from Wikipedia
La Mosquée de Paris, construite entre 1922 et 1926, est située dans le Quartier latin, à deux pas du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris. De style hispano-mauresque, elle est dominée par son minaret de 33 mètres de hauteur. Inspiré de l’Alhambra de Grenade, le patio est entouré d’arcades sculptées. La salle des prières est une étape obligatoire de la visite pour sa décoration et ses magnifiques tapis. La Mosquée de Paris est aussi un lieu de détente avec son hammam où sont passés BOURVIL et DE FUNÈS dans “La Grande Vadrouille”, son restaurant, où déjeunaient BIRKIN et GAINSBOURG dans le film “Slogan”, sa cour ombragée où les habitants du quartier ont l'habitude de venir goûter un thé à la menthe ou un moment de quiétude.