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King Mosque is a mosque and a Cultural Monument of Albania, located in Berat. It became a Cultural Monument in 1948. The mosque was built in the 15th century by Bayezid II.
This mosque is located in Shailan, the construction of which began in Bangla Year 1328 (1920 AD) and from the books an amount of Tk. 13,750 (equivalent to US$ 160 at current rate) was spent for building this mosque, all raised locally! Come first day of Boishakh it will have completed 90 years!!
The village of Shailan is located about 40 kilometers north west of Dhaka under Dhamrai upazilla. The village consists of about 200 households with a population of about 1500. Throughout the year Shailan is accessible by road and when the rivers swell during rainy season one can travel by boat as well.
Shailan in essence is like any other village of Bangladesh. It has a mosque built around 1920, a primary school established in 1904 and a High School set up in 1974. But looking just below the surface, one discovers that like all villages, it has its own unique character as well, a personality and charm that sets it apart from the rest. The following photographs are a montage of the life of a village called Shailan.
In the year 2000, a group of staff from USAID Mission in Dhaka, (the current US Ambassador to Bangladesh Mr. Dan Mozena was also a member of that group) spent a day in September and a subsequent visit again in January 2001, taking photographs to capture lifestyles and daily routines and the surroundings that make up the community. These pictures were later published in a book titled Shailan: Portrait of a Village.
The Foreword of the book says, “Portrait of a Village was our desire to tell a story – largely through pictures – of village life, a life shared by nearly 85 percent of Bangladeshis. These photographs will give a glimpse into village life, a life that is easy to miss as we careen along the highways or bustle about Dhaka. Photographers shot many pictures to capture vignettes of the villagers, their daily routines and the surroundings that make up their community. The objective had been to capture the texture and richness of typical village life. “
The book, published by the University Press Limited, is available in UPL outlets and also on Amazon and other online bookstores. It is priced at around Tk. 1400.
You will find some pictures, taken by me, of my village in the Set called “Shailan: My Village” here..
This is the entrance ceiling to the Seyed Jafar Hamideh Khatoon Holy Shrine and Mosque in District 5 of Tehran. The difference between a mosque and a holy shrine is that a holy shrine is also a burial place, so a holy shrine can also serve as a mosque.
The Ubudiah Mosque (Malay: Masjid Ubudiah) is a small mosque located in the royal town of Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia.
Dating back to 1913, this grand mosque took 4 years to build and was costly upon completion. Its architecture is in the Indo-Saracenic style. It has a central golden dome, and four minarets as well as turrets topped with smaller golden domes. Italian marble was used to add bands of darker colour to the white building.
Cette mosquée aurait été bâtie par les musulmans ayant quitté l'Andalousie sur l'emplacement d'un ancien temple romain, en 1574.
Les colonnes qui la supportent proviendraient des thermes romains de l'Ouest.
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L'histoire de la ville de Cherchell débute au IVe siècle av. J-C lorsque les Phéniciens installèrent un comptoir commercial qu'ils nommèrent « IOL », du nom de l'une de leurs divinités : le dieu du vent.
Après la chute de Carthage, la ville passa, au fil des siècles, aux mains de différentes civilisations : Numides, Romains, Vandales, dynasties arabo-berbères. Mais la période qui marque incontestablement l'apogée de la cité est celle coïncidant avec l'accès au trône de Juba II, en 25 av. J-C.
Élevé à Rome suite à la mort de son père vaincu Juba I, le jeune Juba II grandit dans la culture greco-romaine. Plus tard, il épousera Cléopâtre Séléné, fille de Cléopâtre VII et Marc Antoine.
Ce mélange de cultures romaine, grecque, égyptienne et autochtone engendra pour la ville, rabaptisée Caesarea, et la région une grande dynamique architecturale, artistique et économique dont de nombreuses traces sont encore visibles aujourd'hui - notamment le Mausolée royal de Maurétanie que les historiens lui attribuent.
Cherchell - Wilaya de Tipaza - Algérie
Avril 2017
Kairouan is the fourth most important city for the islamic religion, next to Meca, Medina and Jerusalém. In Kairouan you can find around 50 mosques, but the most important is the Mosque of Uqba.
Kairouan is also an important centre of carpet handicraft.
The city was founded in 670 and is an Unesco Heritage site.
Kairouan, Tunísia 2009
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (Arabic :جامع الشيخ زايد الكبير) is located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque was initiated by the late President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. His final resting place is located on the grounds beside the same mosque.
As the country’s grand mosque, it is the key place of worship for Friday gathering and Eid prayers. It is the largest mosque in the UAE and numbers during Eid can be more than forty thousand people.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center (SZGMC) offices are located in the east minarets. SZGMC manages the day to day operations, as a place of worship and Friday gathering and also a center of learning and discovery through its educational cultural activities and visitor programs.
The minaret of Koutoubia Mosque is designed in almohad style and was constructed of sandstone. It was originally covered with Marrakshi pink plaster, but in the 1990s, experts opted to expose the original stone work and removed the plaster. The minaret tower is 77 metres (253 ft) in height, including the spire, itself 8 metres (26 ft) tall. Each side of the square base is 12.8 metres (42 ft) in length. The minaret is visible from a distance of 29 kilometres (18 mi). Its prominence makes it a landmark structure of Marrakesh, which is maintained by an ordinance prohibiting any high rise buildings (above the height of a palm tree) to be built around it. The muezzin calling the faithful for the adhan (prayer), is given from the four cardinal directions at the top of the minaret.
Its design includes a high angular shaft with a smaller but identical superstructure resting on it, topped by a dome. Many features of the minaret are also included in other religious buildings in the country, such as a wide band of ceramic tiles, alternate pattern work on each side, and Moorish-styled scalloped keystone arches . Decorative carvings envelop the arched fenestrations. Above four-fifths of its height, the minaret has stepped merlons capping the perimeter of the shaft, at which level there is an outdoor gallery approached by ramps. Each side of the tower is designed differently as the window openings are arranged at different heights, conforming to the ascending ramp inside the minaret.
The minaret is topped by a spire. The spire includes gilded copper balls, decreasing in size towards the top, a traditional style of Morocco. There are multiple legends about the orbs. One such legend states that the globes were originally made of pure gold, and there were at one time only three of them, the fourth having been donated by the wife of Yaqub al-Mansur as penance for breaking her fast for three hours one day during Ramzān. She had her golden jewelry melted down to form the fourth globe. Another version of the legend is that the balls were originally made entirely of gold fashioned from the jewellery of the wife of Saadian Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur. There is a flag pole next to the copper balls forming the spire, which is used for hoisting the religious green flag of the Prophet, which the muezzin does every Friday and on religious occasions. The floodlit tower has pleasant views at night.
The Cumbernauld Mosque, right next door to a small church. I had no idea this was here, it is tucked away behind the anonymous roads that wind around this spread-out, bland, post-war "new town", screened by trees. I caught sight of the dome through the trees, so dad pulled over into the next road so I could take a couple of pics
The Süleymaniye Mosque (Turkish: Süleymaniye Camii) is a grand mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. It was built on the order of sultan Suleiman I (Suleiman the Magnificent) and was constructed by the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan. The construction work began in 1550 and the mosque was finished in 1557.
It is considered to be a kind of architectural answer to the Byzantine Hagia Sophia, commissioned by the Emperor Justinian. The Hagia Sophia, converted into a mosque under Mehmed II, served as a model to many other Ottoman mosques in Istanbul. Sinan's Sulimaniye is a more symmetrical, rationalized and light-filled interpretation of earlier Ottoman precedents, as well as the Hagia Sophia. It is possible that dialogue between Italy and Istanbul contributed to Sinan's enthusiasm for symmetrical and rational forms, as promoted by writers like Alberti.
The Suleymaniye plays on Suleyman's self-conscious representation of himself as a 'second Solomon.' It references the Dome of the Rock, which was built on the site of the Temple of Solomon, as well as Justinian's boast upon the completion of the Hagia Sophia: "Solomon, I have surpassed thee!" The Suleymaniye, similar in magnificence to the preceding structures, asserts sultan Suleyman's historical importance. The structure is nevertheless smaller in size than its older archetype, the Hagia Sophia.
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Scan from a 6x6 negative.
Photographer: Brunsberg. In the 1950s and 60s, he was a photographer for Bourguibah, the first president of the Republic of Tunisia.
SHAH JAHAN MOSQUE - 1889
The first purpose built mosque in UK by Begum Shah Jahan, ruler of Bhopal at that time.
Lost Mosque
Dabgir Mosque in Thatta is thought to be the oldest monument of Thatta. This mosque is also known as the Mosque of Amir Khusrao Khan Charkas, a descendent of Changez Khan who was made governor of Thatta in 1590, when the Mughals annexed Sindh. Khusrao Khan Charkas is credited with building over 360 public monuments in Thatta alone, including mosques, tombs, bridges, inns, wells, and masdrassahs (schools).
During Jalauddin Muhammad Akbar's reign, this mosque was situated in the heart of the city. Despite the ravages of time, vandals, and misguided restorers, its former grandeur is still visible in parts of its structure. The best surviving portion of the mosque, which is now quite dilapidated, is its sanctuary. Nothing is known about the form of the courtyard, surrounding walls, gateways, and minarets, if there were any. The sanctuary consists of three bays. The central one has lost its dome, while the two flanking bays are capped by low domes.
The mosque has three compartments in the sanctuary. The central one is the largest. It forms a square of 24 feet and contains a mihrab (arch) with a window in each side. Arched passages connect this chamber with the smaller chambers on the sides. The construction of the mosque is peculiar. In the central bay, the square span is converted into an octagon with much smaller diagonal sides. This irregular octagon is visible externally as well. Above this is placed a regular octagon, also externally visible. Four of its sides are continuations of the lower octagon. On the eastern side there is an arched opening into the base of a low dome, which is now missing. In the side chambers, the oblong span is converted into a square, and then this square void is domed in the same manner as the central dome. The whole construction is of brick covered with lime plaster. On the two sides of the sanctuary, two flights of stairs ascend to the roof.
This mosque's charming recesses, which once contained exquisite and chaste tiles with arabesque from Hala in Sindh, now bear only crude smudges of concrete quite lacking in delicacy. Sensitive curves, niches, and moldings of the cymareversa type are now overlaid with patches of cement and plaster. However, some tile work surviving inside the mosque compensates for what has been mercilessly obliterated outside. These provide the earliest examples of Sindhi tiles (circa 1509). They are confined to only two colors, usually a deep rich blue and a pale turquoise blue on a white ground.
This elegant made mosque is now totally ruined and this all because of neglected management of Archeology (Asar-e-Qadima) and the Pakistan Government, if the management committee of old monuments do nothing about this, then in few years it will be finish.
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The huge dome built on top of the Al-Fatih Mosque is constructed entirely of fibreglass and is currently the world's largest fibreglass dome.
La Mosquée HASSAN II située à CASABLANCA MAROC est érigée en partie sur la mer. C'est un complexe religieux et culturel aménagé sur 9 hectares. Elle peut accueillir 105 000 fidèles et la salle des prières 25 000 fidèles. Le minaret a une hauteur de 215 mètres. Un toit ouvrant (partie verte) de grande dimension permet de relier, selon le voeu du roi HASSAN II, cet édifice à l'air considéré comme l'un des 3 éléments bénéfiques à la vie avec la terre et l'eau.
Conçue par l'archtecte Michel PINSEAU elle a été édifiée par le groupe françaiis BOUYGUES, sa construction a débuté le 12 juillet 1986 et son inauguration a eu lieu le 30 août 1993.
Taken at Khair-U'l-Manazil Masjid in Delhi. The mosque was built in Mughal Emperor Akbar's period in 1561 A.D.
[ENG] The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordova is one of the most unique monuments in the world. The Islamic architecture, with Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine echoes, merges with the Christian one of the most beautiful expressions. The greatness of its history begins in the 6th century with a Visigoth basilica, overflowing in the Caliphate splendor, and culminates with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque art. It was declared a National Monument in 1882, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984, and an Exceptional Universal Value Well in 2014. More photos in the album Mosque-Cathedral of Cordova
[ESP] El patio de los naranjos es el antiguo patio de abluciones musulmán. Su imagen actual se debe a la intervención del obispo Francisco Reinoso que dispuso las hileras de naranjos como continuación de las columnas del patio de oración.
La Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba es uno de los monumentos más singulares del mundo. La arquitectura islámica , con ecos helenísticos, romanos y bizantinos, se funde con la cristiana en una de las expresiones más bellas. La grandeza de su historia se inicia en el siglo VI con una basílica visigoda, se desborda en el esplendor califal, y culmina con el arte gótico, renacentista y barroco. Declarado Monumento Nacional en 1882, Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO en 1984, y Bien de Valor Universal Excepcional en 2014. Más fotografías en el álbum Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba
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Islamabad - Faisal Mosque.
Istanbul is a city of mosques - many of them quite old. The sign on the doorway says this one was started in 1597. I liked the vertical doorway
Mosque in Nartkala, Kabardino Balkaria (near Nalchik). This is where my wife's family lived before moving to Moscow. It's a Muslim republic within Russia. Just a small town with a large mosque like this. Beautiful building.
Interestingly enough, my wife's Dad is a professing Muslim, while her Mom is a truly believing Christian. Both my wife and I are... (guess)... Christians.
The Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: بادشاھی مسجد) or the 'Emperor's Mosque' in Lahore is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world. Epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era, it is Lahore's most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction.
Capable of accommodating 10,000 worshippers in its main prayer hall and a further 100,000 in its courtyard and porticoes, it remained the largest mosque in the world from 1673 to 1986 (a period of 313 years), when overtaken in size by the completion of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Today, it remains the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca, the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca and the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.
To appreciate its large size, the four minarets of the Badshahi Mosque are 13.9 ft (4.2 m) taller than those of the Taj Mahal and the main platform of the Taj Mahal can fit inside the 278,784 sq ft (25,899.9 m2) courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque, which is the largest mosque courtyard in the world
History
Construction of the Badshahi Mosque was ordered in May 1671 by the sixth Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb, who assumed the title 'Alamgir', meaning 'Conqueror of the World.' Construction took about two years and was completed in April 1673[1]. The construction work was carried out under the supervision of Aurangzeb's foster brother Muzaffar Hussain (also known as Fidaie Khan Koka) who was appointed Governor of Lahore in May 1671 and held this post until 1675. He was also Master of Ordnance to the Emperor. The mosque was built opposite the Lahore Fort, illustrating its stature in the Mughal Empire. In conjunction with the building of the mosque, a new gate was built at the Fort, named Alamgiri Gate after the Emperor
Mosque i went to during my stay in Uganda. Part of an interfaith discussion. That is the mens door. The womens entrance was in the back
The Putra Mosque, or Masjid Putra in Malay language, is the principal mosque of Putrajaya, Malaysia. Construction of the mosque began in 1997 and was completed two years later. It is located next to Perdana Putra which houses the Malaysian Prime Minister's office and man-made Putrajaya Lake. In front of the mosque is a large square with flagpoles flying Malaysian states' flags.
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The Wazir Khan Mosque (Punjabi/Urdu: مسجد وزیر خان Masjid Wazīr Khān) in Lahore, Pakistan, is famous for its extensive faience tile work. It has been described as 'a mole on the cheek of Lahore'. It was built in seven years, starting around 1634–1635 AD, during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jeha