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This Shia mosque next to the Tigris River at Uzair, Iraq, contains the tomb of the Biblical prophet Ezra. The rear section on the right was originally a synagogue and numerous Hebrew inscriptions remain.
Valide-i Atik Mosque - Valide-i Atik Camii
Valide-i Atik, Üsküdar District, Istanbul, TR
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... aka Prince's Mosque. Built by Sultan Suleiman I in memory of his son Prince Mehmet, who died at the age of 21 in 1543.
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The Koutoubia Mosque (Arabic: جامع الكتبية) is the largest mosque in Marrakech, Morocco. The minaret was completed under the reign of the Almohad Caliph Yaqub al-Mansur (1184-1199) and was used as the model for the Giralda of Seville and for the Hassan Tower of Rabat.
The name is derived from the Arabic al-Koutoubiyyin for librarian, since it used to be surrounded by sellers of manuscripts. It is considered the ultimate structure of its kind. The tower is 69 m (221 ft) in height and has a lateral length of 12.8 m (41 ft). Six rooms (one above the other) constitute the interior; leading around them is a ramp by way of which the muezzin could ride up to the balcony. It is built in a traditional Almohad style and the tower is adorned with four copper globes.
According to legend, the globes were originally made of pure gold, and there were once supposed to have been only three globes. The fourth globe was donated by the wife of Yacoub el-Mansour as compensation for her failure to keep the fast for one day during the month of Ramadan. She had her golden jewelry melted down to flab the fourth globe.
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.
Mosques – masjed or masjid – are a prominent feature in any Islamic landscape. In the marble-clad Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque in Muscat,Oman, we can see all of the elements of Islamic architectural structure and many richly intricate decorative patterns.
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Wide angle view of the inner courtyard of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (aka the Blue Mosque) at dusk, in Istanbul, Turkey.
The royal mosque, formerly called the Masjed-e-Shah was the crowning architectural achievement of Shah Abbas I who built it to complete the magnificent central square of Isfahan. The mosque is celebrated for the magnificence of its haft rang tilework and staggers the visitor with its opulence and inventiveness. The view above shows the mosque as seen from the centre of square .. Shah Abbas sadly died before it was completed, although he put enormous pressure on his builders and architects.
Some uncertainty surrounds the date on which the Mosque was started. According to Chardin work had begun in 1590, but other sources say that Shah Abbas I laid the first stone himself in the spring of 1611. 'Ali Reza, the great calligrapher, who was responsible for the inscriptions in the mosque, dated the main entrance in 1616, but work was clearly unfinished as there are records of orders being placed as late as 1630. The architect was Ostad Abu'l-Qasim. There are estimated to be 18 million bricks in the building and the rivetments are said to contain 472,500 tiles.
It represents the peak of Iranian architecture, later mosques such as the Masjed-e-Hakim are either derivative, in this case of Seljuk originals, or overly influenced by European designs as in the case of the 19th century Masjed-e-Sayyed. The great dome of Madrasa Mader-e-Shah, The Royal Theological College, which was completed towards the end of the Safavid period in 1714 derives its inspiration and splendour from this one, but the remainder of the complex is disappointing.
The Imam Ali Mosque stands beside the grimy Ashar River in the center of Basra, Iraq. Once known as the "Venice of the East", Basra is still reeling from the many wars fought here over the past few decades.
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
The Medieval Mosque is a part of a collaborative build with my LUG friends from Zbudujmy To!, which shows an Arabic Street, with 3 districts: Savannah, Poor district and Wealthy district.
The mosque, was of course made for the wealthy disctrict.
You can check out the full review of my build on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/D4ZTGFEfdeQ
The star mosaic inspired by:
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Katie Walker - www.flickr.com/photos/eilonwy77
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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.
Mosque recently built by French Construction company Bouygues. It can hold 10,000 people and the domes are made of gold
This mosque was built in the 19th century by Indian Muslim traders in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. It is situated on the corner of Lebuh Buckingham (Buckingham Street) and Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling (Pitt Street).
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Moscow Cathedral Mosque - the main mosque in Moscow, one of the largest and highest mosque in Russia and in Europe.
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Moscow Cathedral Mosque — is the main mosque of Moscow, Russia. It is located on Olimpiysky Avenue, close to the Olympic indoor stadium in the centre of the city.
The original structure was built in 1904 according to the design of the architect Nikolay Zhukov and has undergone some reconstructions since then. It was also sometimes called "Tatar Mosque" because its congregation consisted mainly of ethnic Tatars. Socially, the Moscow Congregational Mosque was often viewed as the central mosque in Russia. It was one of the four mosques in Moscow.
The old mosque was demolished on 11 September 2011. The decision to demolish it was controversial. In June 2008, the mosque was recognized as an object of cultural heritage, however, in the end of 2008 it was removed from the list of historical and architectural monuments. Thus, at the time of demolition, it was not protected. There were plans to reconstruct the mosque, and the reconstruction project was designed by architect Ilyas Tazhiyev. One of the reasons for reconstruction was that the building deviated by several degrees from the direction to Mecca. The project included disassembling the mosque, collecting all the stones, and re-assembling it again with corrected orientation. In 2009, however, the Council of Muftis dismissed Tazhiyev, first claiming they will make another reconstruction project, and then demolishing the building claiming it was close to collapse. Tazhiyev stated after the demolition that the reconstruction was still possible, and the building was not close to collapse.
The Moscow Cathedral Mosque became the first demolished religious building in Moscow since 1978.
A new mosque has been built at the site of the former one. It was officially inaugurated on 23 September 2015. The new mosque has the capacity of ten thousand worshippers. Presidents of Russia Vladimir Putin, of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of Palestinian territories Mahmoud Abbas and local Muslim leaders participated in the inauguration ceremony of this mosque
The Medieval Mosque is a part of a collaborative build with my LUG friends from Zbudujmy To!, which shows an Arabic Street, with 3 districts: Savannah, Poor district and Wealthy district.
The mosque, was of course made for the wealthy disctrict.
You can check out the full review of my build on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/D4ZTGFEfdeQ
The star mosaic inspired by:
Andreas Lenander - www.flickr.com/photos/124068149@N02
&
Katie Walker - www.flickr.com/photos/eilonwy77
For this MOC, I'm using Briksmax lights from Lightailing. You can get your own with a 5% discount following this link:
www.lightailing.com/?ref=hwE1OAM4oTNZIM
And using the promo code: EBEO6LBZWR
Taken at Khair-U'l-Manazil Masjid in Delhi. The mosque was built in Mughal Emperor Akbar's period in 1561 A.D.
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.
In September 1975, I got onto the flat roof of the Buyuk Ayasofya Hotel, on Caferiye Sokak, to take this photo of the Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii) in Istanbul.
The Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, also called the Mosque of Amr, was originally built in 641–642 AD, as the center of the newly founded capital of Egypt, Fustat. The original structure was the first mosque ever built in Egypt and the whole of Africa
Taken @Cairo, Egypt
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Ortaköy Mosque
Basic information
Location Istanbul, Turkey
Geographic coordinates 41°2′49″N 29°1′37″E / 41.04694°N 29.02694°E / 41.04694; 29.02694
Affiliation Islam
Architectural description
Architect(s) Garabet Balyan, Nigoğayos Balyan
Architectural type Mosque
Architectural style Neo-Baroque architecture
Groundbreaking 1853
Year completed 1854
Specifications
Minaret(s) 2
Interior view of the dome
Ortaköy Mosque (Turkish: Ortaköy Camii), officially the Büyük Mecidiye Camii (Grand Imperial Mosque of Sultan Abdülmecid) in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey, is situated at the waterside of the Ortaköy pier square, one of the most popular locations on the Bosphorus.
The original Ortaköy Mosque was built in the 18th century. The current mosque, which was erected in its place, was ordered by the Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid and built between 1854 and 1856. Its architects were Armenian father and son Garabet Amira Balyan and Nigoğayos Balyan (who also designed the nearby Dolmabahçe Palace), who designed it in Neo-Baroque style. Within the mosque hang several examples of Islamic calligraphy executed by the Sultan Abdülmecid himself, who was also a hattat (master calligrapher).
The wide, high windows let the ever-changing light reflections of the Bosphorus shine in the mosque.
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SHAH JAHAN MOSQUE - 1889
The first purpose built mosque in UK by Begum Shah Jahan, ruler of Bhopal at that time.
Mosque, Köln
Paul Böhm, Architect
View from the top of the dome back down. An impressive bit of scaffolding-work, resulting in that one can not see much of what the interior space will look like.
Clear is, however, that it will be a large space.
the largest mosque in the United Arab Emirates and the eighth largest mosque in the world.
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View from the ribat on mosque and the sea. Monastir, Tunisia.
Monastir is a city on the central coast of Tunisia, in the Sahel area, (20 km south of Sousse and 162 km south of Tunis). Traditionally a fishing port, Monastir is now a major tourist resort. Its population is 41,400. It is the capital of Monastir Governorate.
The mosque (standing by by the ribat) is the main mosque of Monastir, which is totally dwarfed as it is placed next to the ribat. It was built in the 9th century, and rebuilt by the Zirids in the 11th.