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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.
Geometric patterns decorate the mihrab (prayer niche) of the Kusumba Mosque (1558) in Naogaon District, Bangladesh.
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.
Probably Kairouan.
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.
This is the Jumeirah Mosque in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
At certain prescribed timings during the day, Muslims everywhere are called to prayer by the "Mu'athin" in the Mosque. There are 5 daily prayers- the "Fajer" or Dawn prayer; the "Dhuhr" or Noon prayer; the "Asr" or Afternoon prayer; the "Maghrib" or Sunset prayer; and the "Isha" or Night prayer.
A Mosque is where Muslims can congregate to perform the 5 daily prayers, and although praying at a Mosque is preferable, it is not necessary; it is permissable to pray alone or in a group at another place.
Prayer (or, in Arabic, salaah) is one of the five pillars of Islam and, as seen by Muslims, is the symbol of worship. It is an action specifically ordained to be performed in a certain way at particular timings during the day.
Muslims see that it is the action of prayer that connects one with God regularly and breaks off the occupation with the world. Salaah is performed in gratitude, reverance and love for God.
Another form of prayer or supplication is called "Du'aa", which has no prescribed method or specific timing for it. It is asking or talking to God.
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.
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.
the largest mosque in the United Arab Emirates and the eighth largest mosque in the world.
photo by Olympus EM5
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
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Katie Walker - www.flickr.com/photos/eilonwy77
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Taken at Khair-U'l-Manazil Masjid in Delhi. The mosque was built in Mughal Emperor Akbar's period in 1561 A.D.
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.
This gold-plated dome mosque is one of the most beautiful mosque in the Southeast Asian. It is located in Jalan Nurhasim, Meruyung, Limo-Depok. It has 5 gold-plated domes with the largest has 16 meters diameter and 25 meters height. This mosque stands in 100 hectare area meanwhile the mosque itself has 8.000 square meters area.
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
Istanbul (Turkey)
Nikon D3S
AF Fisheye Nikkor 16mm f/2.8D
ISO 6400, 16 mm, 1/45 sec, f/3.3
The ceiling of the Eyüp Sultan Mosque (1458), the first mosque constructed by the Ottoman Turks following the Conquest of Constantinople in 1453. This mosque attracts many pilgrims because it is positioned next to the place where the Eyüp Sultan - the standard-bearer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad - is said to have been buried during the Arab assault on Constantinople in 670.
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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