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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.
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
Söğütlüçeşme Mosque Inside - İçerden Söğütlüçeşme Camii
Sanatın Ustaları ~ Masters of Art
One 1stanbul Photo Album, Söğütlüçeşme, Kadıköy District, Istanbul, TR
SUGRAPHIC ~ Always Under The Light of Your Love ...
SUpport ISTANBUL 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, BRIDGE TOGETHER
ISTANBUL 2020 Yaz Olimpiyatları ve Paralimpiksleri için Destekle, BİRLİKTE KÖPRÜLER KURALIM ...
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :
The Jame Mosque (Friday Mosque) is a mosque in Yazd, Yazd Province of Iran.
The 12th century mosque is still in use today. It was first built under Ala'oddoleh Garshasb of the Al-e Bouyeh dynasty. The mosque was largely rebuilt between 1324CE and 1365CE, and is one of the outstanding 14th century buildings of Iran .
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.
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.
Geometric patterns decorate the mihrab (prayer niche) of the Kusumba Mosque (1558) in Naogaon District, Bangladesh.
The Murjan Mosque on Sharia Rasheed in central Baghdad, Iraq, was originally the Murjaniya Madrasah (1357), an Islamic school.
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
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.
View from the street of the Hassan II Mosque.
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
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 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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