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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.
The mosque's design is a blend of Ottoman and Malay architectural styles, heavily influenced by the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. It has 22 domes made from a composite material of glass fibre fabric mixed with epoxy resin to make it durable and light.
Mosquée à Cotonou avec une floppée de gosses tous plus fendus de la poire les uns que les autres.
Mosque in Cotonou, swarms of kids all gleeful and smiling.
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.
Mosque dome and minaret behind a row of houses ... when i walked down the street, these emerged as it i was in Star Wars movie ... had to take the picture.
The Masjid Omar Bin Alkhattab Mosque Park Holme.
Immigration to early South Australia was mainly from Britain and Germany. However, Sir Thomas Elder employed Afghans to breed camels for desert transportation of wool .He first shipped 109 camels to SA from the Middle East in 1865. The first Afghans arrived in SA at the same time and more arrived to work with camels providing supplies for the erection of the overland telegraph in 1872. Many of the cameleers ended up residing round Maree which was the start of the Birdsville track to QLD and other remote outback places. Consequently a half walled earth mud and thatch mosque was erected in Marree in 1884. This was followed by the Adelaide Mosque in 1889 which still stands with its four corner minarets. These early Muslims, who were mainly cameleers were from north-western India (now Pakistan, and the Khyber Pass area of Afghanistan. Eventually some had wives but they were mainly of non-Muslim background. The first major immigration of Muslims to South Australia began in the 1950s with refugees from Indonesia and Bosnia in Europe. By then the Adelaide Mosque was in disrepair and these new arrivals had the Mosque restored. In more recent decades Muslim migrants have arrived from the Middle East, Lebanon, Turkey and parts of Asia. There are now quite a few mosques In SA including Mosques at Park Holm, Woodville, the city, Mile End, Gilles Plains, Pooraka, Parafield Gardens, Greenfields, Elizabeth Grove, Gepps Cross, Kilburn, Royal Park, Beverley, Murray Bridge, Renmark, Whyalla and Virginia. Several mosques meet in former churches such as the new one at Virginia. The mosques vary in faith like Christian denominations and In SA they are mainly Sunni but we also have Shia mosques. Like Christianity and Judaism Islam emerged in the Middle East and shares some of the same values. Muslims believe in one God Allah and the prophets including Adam, Moses Abraham etc. The Holy Qur’an based on the verbal revelations of Muhammad lays down the law, commandments, codes for social and moral behaviour and religious philosophy.
النفس تبكي على الدنيا وقد علمت .. أن السلامة فيها ترك مافيها
لا دار للمرء بعد الموت يسكنها إلا التي كان قبل الموت يبنيها
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 Kul Sharif Mosque located in Kazan Kremlin, was reputed to be – at the time of its construction – one of the largest mosques in Russia, and in Europe outside of Istanbul.
Jumeirah Mosque is a mosque in Dubai City. It is said that it is the most photographed mosque in all of Dubai. Organized tours are available for non-Muslims. Construction began in 1976; the mosque is built in traditional Fatimid style.
New Mosque - Yeni Camii
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One 1stanbul Photo Album, Eminönü, Fatih District, Istanbul, TR
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Entrance of the Al-Ummah mosque in Amsterdam West. Mosques are often depicted as buildings with nice ornaments and minarets. But mosques aren't just buildings, they're defined by the community they serve. This mosque is an important part of Amsterdam West that has a large muslim population.
Minolta XD-7
Minolta MD Rokkor 85mm 1:1.7
Ilford Delta 100 exposed at 100
Ilford DD-X during 10,5 min, agitated 10sec/min
scanned with a Minolta Dimage Dual II and Vuescan
Location Doha, Qatar
EXIF
Camera Nikon D700
Lens: NIKKOR AF-S 14-24 F/2.8 (N)
Exposure 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture f/4.5
Focal Length 14 mm
ISO Speed 500
Masjid Ubudiah - ranking high on the list of Malaysia's most beautiful mosques, the Masjid Ubudiah (or Ubudiah Mosque) stands proudly and majestically in Kuala Kangsar, with its golden dome and minarets creating a spellbinding sight, from near and afar.
The mosque was designed by Arthur Benison Hubback, a government architect who is notably credited for the design of the Ipoh railway station and the Kuala Lumpur railway station.
Built in 1917 during the reign of the 28th Sultan of Perak, Sultan Idris Murshidul'adzam Shah, the Masjid Ubudiah is located beside the Royal Mausoleum on Bukit Chandan. It was commissioned on the orders of the Sultan, who vowed that he would build a mosque of great beauty as thanksgiving for recovery from an illness which plagued him in those early days.
The construction of the mosque was not without difficulties. Work was interrupted several times, once when two elephants belonging to the sultan's and Raja Chulan were fighting and ran over and damaged the imported Italian marble titles.
The mosque was finally completed in late 1917 at a total cost of RM200,000- quite an astronomical figure for those days. It was officially declared open by Sultan Abdul Jalil Karamtullah Shah, successor to Sultan Idris. This imposing structure is now a symbol of great pride to all Muslims in the state of Perak Darul Ridzuan, the Land of Grace. - Wikipedia
哈桑二世清真寺 Hassan II Mosque
The Hassan II Mosque is a mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. It is the largest functioning mosque in Africa and is the 14th largest in the world.
哈桑二世清真寺位於卡薩布蘭卡（達爾貝達）的大西洋海岸上，其中三分之一的面積建在海上，於1993年建成。因系前摩洛哥國王哈桑二世發起並捐資籌建，故名。它可以容納10.5萬人同時禮拜，是世界第14大、非洲第一大清真寺。它的宣禮塔高達200米，是世界第二高的宣禮塔。
Casablanca, Morocco
2023/11/17
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dans.photo@gmail.com
門票 USD14
Aleppo, Umayyad Mosque
Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,132,100 (2004 census), it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant. For centuries, Aleppo was the Syrian region's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third-largest, after Constantinople and Cairo.
Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it has been inhabited since perhaps as early as the 6th millennium BC. Excavations at Tell as-Sawda and Tell al-Ansari, just south of the old city of Aleppo, show that the area was occupied since at least the latter part of the 3rd millennium BC; and this is also when Aleppo is first mentioned in cuneiform tablets unearthed in Ebla and Mesopotamia, in which it is noted for its commercial and military proficiency. Such a long history is probably due to its being a strategic trading point midway between the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia (i.e. modern Iraq).
The city's significance in history has been its location at the end of the Silk Road, which passed through central Asia and Mesopotamia. When the Suez Canal was inaugurated in 1869, trade was diverted to sea and Aleppo began its slow decline. At the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, Aleppo ceded its northern hinterland to modern Turkey, as well as the important railway connecting it to Mosul. Then in the 1940s it lost its main access to the sea, Antioch and Alexandretta, also to Turkey. Finally, the isolation of Syria in the past few decades further exacerbated the situation, although perhaps it is this very decline that has helped to preserve the old city of Aleppo, its medieval architecture and traditional heritage.
The Great Mosque of Aleppo or the Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the city of Aleppo, Syria. It is located in the Ancient City of Aleppo, a World Heritage Site, near the entrance to al-Madina Souq. The mosque was built in the beginning of the 8th century. However, the current building dates back to the 11th through 14th centuries. The minaret was built in 1090, and was destroyed during fighting in the Syrian civil war in April 2013.
The construction of the earliest mosque was commenced by the Ummayad caliph al-Walid I in 715 and was finished by his successor Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik in 717. In the second half of the 11th century, the Mirdasids controlled Aleppo and built a single-domed fountain in the mosque's courtyard. At the northwest corner of the mosque, the 45-meter high minaret was built by the Shia Muslim qadi ("chief Islamic judge") of Aleppo, Abu'l Hasan Muhammad in 1090, during the reign of Seljuk governor Aq Sunqur al-Hajib. Its construction was finished in 1094 during Tutush's rule.
The mosque was restored and expanded by the Zengid sultan Nur al-Din in 1159 after a great fire that had destroyed the earlier Ummayad structure. In 1260 the mosque was razed by the Mongols. The Mamluks (1260–1516) made repairs and alterations. Carved Kufic and nashki inscriptions decorated the entire minaret along with alternate bands of stylized ornaments in patterns and muqarnas. Sultan Qalawun replaced the burnt out mihrab (niche indicating the qibla, or direction to Mecca) in 1285. Later, Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (1293–1341) had the new minbar ("preacher's pulpit") constructed during his reign.
The Great Mosque is built around a vast courtyard that connects to different areas of the mosque, positioned behind the colonnaded arcade. The courtyard is well known for its alternating black and white stone floor that forms intricate geometric arrangements. Two ablutions fountains, both of which are roofed. The court yard also has an open prayer estrade and a sundial.
The haram ("sanctuary") consists of the main prayer hall to the courtyard's south, which contains the primary elements of the mosque: the shrine of Zechariah, a 15th-century minbar ("pulpit"), and an elaborately carved mihrab ("niche"). Although the central entrance contains an inscription attributing its construction to Ottoman sultan Murad III, it was built by the Mamluks. The hall has three naves, all lined with 18 quadrangular columns with cross-vaults. This large prayer hall originally had a basic straight rooftop with a central dome, but during Mamluk rule was replaced with an intricate cross-vaulted system with arches and a small dome over the arcades. The mihrab is deep and round and Zechariah's supposed tomb is to its left along the southern wall.
There are three other halls that abut the remaining sides of the courtyard. The eastern and northern halls each have two naves, while the western hall has one. The latter is mostly of modern construction. The east hall dates to the period of Malik Shah (1072–92) and the north hall was renovated during Mamluk sultan Barquq's reign (1382–1399), but largely maintained its original 11th century character.
The minaret's shaft, which protruded out of the flat roof of one of the halls, consisted of five levels with a crowning top encircled with a veranda. A muqarnas-style cornice divided the veranda top from the shaft. The structure was largely built of fine ashlar. The minaret was heavily decorated in relief ornament, more so than any other Islamic-era structure in Aleppo with the exception of the Shu'aybiyah Madrasa. Its stories contained cusped arches and continuous mouldings. The masonry of the minaret varied throughout, with a mix of light and heavy usage of toothed tools, short, long, vertical and horizontal strokes, fine and rough finishes, and small and large stones.
(sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleppo and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_Aleppo)
Taken from the roof of Hotel Fort View.
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The New Mosque (Yeni Cami) forms an impressive backdrop for a flight of pigeons. The "New" is relative as this mosque was built in 1663 and is one of the many beautiful imperial mosques that dots the Eminonu district in Istanbul, Turkey
Lights illuminate the Waqaf Mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. ca. July 1985 Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Esenler Center Mosque Inside - İçerden Esenler Merkez Camii
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