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Dolmabahce Mosque is situated at the southern end of the Dolmabahce Palace complex. It was constructed between 1853 and 1855 by the renowned Balyan family of architects and combines Baroque and Ampir styles with beautiful circular windows.
The Adelaide Mosque is the oldest surviving mosque in Australia and the first to be built in an Australian city. Erected in 1888–89, it was designed to meet the spiritual needs of Muslim cameleers and traders coming in from work in South Australia’s northern regions.
The mosque in Adelaide was preceded by two earth-walled and thatch-roofed mosques constructed by cameleers in Hergott Springs (Marree). These open buildings, next to pools for washing prior to prayer, reflected those in the places of origin of the cameleers – Afghanistan, Baluchistan and northwest India (now part of Pakistan).
Moves to construct the Adelaide Mosque were led by Hadji Mullah (also known as Moolah or Hadji Mullah Merban or Mehrban). A Tarin Afghan, Hadji Mullah worked with camel teams carrying materials and supplies for the Overland Telegraph Line, completed in 1872. This suggests that he was one of the first of the cameleers to arrive in South Australia from 1865. Retiring to Adelaide, Hadji Mullah wanted a place where cameleers and traders could practice their Islamic faith.
Abdul Wade (also known as Wadi, Wabed, Wahid) from the Quetta district of Afghanistan became the trustee and builder of the mosque. He was a merchant and cameleer in the area of Bourke in outback New South Wales. Funding was raised through donations from the small Muslim community.
Plans for the Adelaide Mosque were approved by the Adelaide City Council in 1887. The first stage of construction took two years to complete. The simple building of brick and stone, costing £450, measured 11.3m in length, 7.6m in width and approximately 5.5m in height. A visitor writing for the Observer in July 1891 described the premises:
There is a large open square on the eastern side, with a tank and fountain in the centre for ablution. The mosque itself is entered from the east, and a tessellated pavement is laid in the porch, which is enclosed with numerous arched columns … No one is permitted to enter the mosque wearing his shoes. Before even crossing the pavement he must take his shoes from off his feet – a custom which is never infringed by the priest himself. No decorations of any kind whatever, not even a chair, are to be seen in the interior of the house – merely a few windows, arched niches in the whitewashed walls to carry the Koran, and the concrete floors covered with mats for the worshippers to kneel upon when at prayer five times a day.
Hadji Mullah became the first caretaker of the mosque. He and his wife lived in a cottage in the grounds. Adjacent cottages gave shelter and accommodation to aged and unemployed cameleers and hawkers. The Observer’s visitor noted:
When out of work, poor, and almost penniless, they have always been provided with food and shelter through the charity of the Hadji, who permits them … to occupy the tenements in Little Gilbert street. In one cottage in which the venerable Hadji designates ‘God’s house,’ [are] at least a dozen men – upon some of whom old age was clearly telling its tale – who are privileged to make this place a home while in the city … At the rear is a garden and a building in which we believe Indian mat-making is carried out.
Four minarets were added to the mosque in 1903. The surrounding garden had matured by then, creating a peaceful environment for prayer and meditation reported the Advertiser in May: ‘The mosque is situated in a garden filled with flowers of all colors, and the effect is enhanced here and there by evergreen trees. On one side of the mosque are a number of cottages, around which vines have been trained, with the result that they appear very picturesque’.
In subsequent years, as the number of cameleers dwindled through age and return to their countries of origin, the Adelaide Mosque fell into disrepair. However, migrants from Europe and Indonesia after the Second World War replenished the Muslim population. Bosnian migrants in 1952 found ‘ancient turbaned men’, the youngest aged 87 and the oldest 117 years, still living in its decaying shelter.[1] The younger men cared for the old cameleers until they died. They then began restoring the mosque.
The Adelaide Mosque became a place of prayer for Muslim migrants from Lebanon, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and areas of the former Yugoslavia. More recent refugees and migrants continue to pray in the mosque so longed for by Hadji Mullah more than a century ago.
Source:Jude Elton, History Trust of South Australia, ‘Adelaide Mosque’, SA History Hub, History Trust of South Australia, sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/places/adelaide-mosque, accessed 1 August 2023.
Edinburgh Central Mosque (officially known as the King Fahd Mosque and Islamic Centre of Edinburgh) is located on Potterrow near the University of Edinburgh central area and the National Museum of Scotland. The mosque and Islamic centre was designed by Dr. Basil Al Bayati, and took more than six years to complete at a cost of £3.5M. The main hall can hold over one thousand worshippers, with women praying on a balcony overlooking the hall. The mosque holds chandeliers and a vast carpet, with very little furniture.
One of the most beautiful mosques in the world. Its actuall name is Msjid Sultan Ahmed but European call it "BLUE MOSQUE" i dont know why?
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Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Jamek Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Kuala Lumpur. The Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah officially opened the mosque in 1909, two years after construction was completed. The mosque was built on the first Malay burial ground in the city. Before the national mosque, Masjid Negara, was opened in 1965, Masjid Jamek served as Kuala Lumpur's main mosque. The architect was Arthur Benison Hubback. (Wikipedia)
The oldest stone built mosque in China located in Quanzhou city in the Fujian province in 1009 AD. The patch of grass to the right is the edge one of many graveyards in the city housing the thousands of immigrant Arabian Muslims to the city/ region since the time of Prophet Muhammad. These Muslims married and 'integrated' creating a new Chinese Muslim culture.
The mosque is a testament to the local community where interfaith relations have continued to be strong. A few hundred feet down the road behind me is, for example one of the largest Buddhist temples in town, equally elaborate in design.
The colouring on this the outer stone wall which faces a busy road is very different to that of the preceding photo of the inner stone wall, on account of the pollution.
Portrait of a person outside the National Mosque in Abuja, Nigeria. The mosque was built in 1984 and one of the chief religious sites in the capital. The mosque is open to non-Muslims during times when it is not being used for religious services.
Wikipedia reports that the mosque was built on reclaimed land, with almost half of the surface of the mosque extending over the waters of the Atlantic. This was reportedly inspired by the verse of the Qur'an which says that "the throne of God was built on the water". Part of floor is glass so that worshippers can realize that they are kneeling directly over the sea.
The mosque was built to withstand earthquakes and has a heated floor, electric doors, and a sliding roof. It displays strong Moorish influence and the architecture of the building is similar to that of the Alhambra and the Mezquita in Spain.
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Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque that was constructed between 1996 and 2007 is located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. The largest mosque in the country, it is the key place of worship for Friday gathering and Eid prayers. During Eid it may be visited by more than 41,000 people.
“Let mercy be your mosque, faith your prayer-mat, and honest living your Koran”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Opened in May 2009, Şakirin Mosque is the only mosque in the world designed by a woman. It is in Asiatic Istanbul.
I have heard this modern mosque jokefully called club five times a day, because of its designer's having designed night clubs the other times.
It is regarded highly worldwide:
Officially opened in May 2009, the beautiful Sakirin Mosque in Turkey is the result of a direct effort to merge antiquity with modernity in a society immersed in constant and contentious debates about religion and secularism. The interior of the mosque was designed by Zeynep Fadillioglu, a famous British-Turkish female interior designer, and is located among several other classical mosques. In a 2008 BBC article Fadillioglu, who is not religious herself, admitted that she wept tears of joy when she was asked to join the project:
Especially at a time when so much is being discussed wrongly of Islam not allowing women to have equal rights. The fact that a woman can build a mosque disproves this.
The issue of women’s rights and Islam is certainly not clear cut and those who discuss it in polar terms (as people often do) are either not aware of, or choose to ignore, certain inherent complexities, but creations like this are representative of tides of change which are penetrating Islamic societies and creating spaces for debate.
Notes Fadillioglu:
There are big discussions on whether Western values are to be integrated with Islamic values, or whether two different communities will remain divided.
I think this mosque has all the Western and Eastern values nicely blended. We wanted to go with the flow of Islam, while at the same time creating something contemporary.
Cnn article :
ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- There is a shiny addition among the Ottoman mosques and palaces that make up Istanbul's stunning skyline: the metallic, mirrored dome of the new Sakirin Mosque, a Muslim place of worship built with a woman's touch.
When sun reflects off Sakirin Mosque's dome, light can be seen across the Bosphorus Strait.
When sun reflects off Sakirin Mosque's dome, light can be seen across the Bosphorus Strait.
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For what may be the first time in history, women have been at the forefront of the construction of a mosque in Turkey.
One of the project's leaders is Zeynep Fadillioglu, an interior decorator who has designed restaurants, hotels and luxury homes from New Delhi, India, to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, and London, England.
She helped organize a team of traditional mosque artists specializing in Islamic calligraphy, along with craftsmen in glassworks, metal-casting and lighting who, like Fadillioglu, have built careers working in exclusively secular architecture and design.
"I want people to feel peaceful and be left with themselves as much as possible and yet have beautiful art and artistic symbolism around them," she said.
Istanbul has a venerable tradition of mosque architecture, dating back centuries to when Ottoman sultans declared themselves caliph, or spiritual leader of the Muslim world. Video Watch Zeynep Fadilioglu show off her work and inspirations »
The shores of the Bosporus Strait are studded with 16th century masterpieces such as the Suleymaniye Mosque, built by the Ottoman Empire's most famous architect, Mimar Sinan, and ornate, neo-Baroque jewels designed by the Armenian Balyan family in the 19th century. But Istanbul's most senior Muslim cleric laments that mosque design suffered a decline after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of World War I.
"In the last 70, 80 years, we have built mosques that are copies of Ottoman architecture," said Mustafa Cagrici, the mufti of Istanbul. "This wasn't a good development, because the copy can never be as good as the original."
Fadillioglu and her team of artists are hoping to change that. Photo Look at photos of the mosque »
The Sakirin Mosque was commissioned by a wealthy Turkish Arab family and built in one of Istanbul's oldest cemeteries.
The designers put a number of contemporary touches on the structure, giving it plate glass walls etched with gold-leaf verses from the Quran, framed by giant cast-iron grids.
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"If we think about this place as a home of God, we can also say women will make this place much better."
Carpenter Metin Cekeroglu
The mihrab -- the alcove that points worshippers in the direction of Mecca -- is made of asymmetrical ovals, similar to a design used by Fadillioglu to decorate a restaurant in London. And the chandelier is a multi-layered series of metal and plexiglass rings, carrying Quranic inscriptions and dripping with scores of delicate glass teardrops.
"The glass chandelier brings the high dome down to the people," Fadillioglu explained. "So when they pray and kneel they don't feel lost with the light and it shelters them."
Many of the artists here never worked on a mosque before.
"It's special that a woman's hand is involved in this," said one of them, a male carpenter named Metin Cekeroglu. "If you think about it, a home is made by woman. And if we think about this place as a home of God, we can also say women will make this place much better."
Fadillioglu said one of her goals was to bring extra attention into the design of the women's section of the mosque, an area that she says is often neglected by architects. According to Islamic tradition, worshippers are segregated by gender at mosques.
"I have seen mosques where women have been pushed to the worst part of stairs, cramped area. Sort of as if (they are) unwanted in the mosque," she said. "That is not what Islam is about. ... Women are equal in Islam to men"
Five minutes' drive from the Sakirin Mosque stands the Mihrimah Sultan Mosque, a 16th century structure built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in honor of his favorite daughter. Unfortunately, female worshippers do not get to enjoy its stunning stained glass windows the way the men do. They have to pray in a small women's section, hidden behind a bank of chest-high shelves that store shoes.
At the Sakirin Mosque, Fadillioglu said, she gave women praying on the balcony an unobstructed view of the dome, the ornate chandelier, and the area on the floor where the imam will lead prayers.
"I would like to come here to pray," said Elif Demir, an 18-year old art student with a funky, orange-dyed haircut who was working on the chandelier. "This mosque is completely different because of the light that's coming through the walls, through the glass."
Fadillioglu's role in the Sakirin Mosque is all the more surprising because she comes from a jet-set side of Turkish society not normally associated with Islam.
"It is unusual," she conceded, "because first of all not many modern people have been commissioned to design a mosque."
She spoke in a recent interview at Ulus 29, the expensive Istanbul hilltop restaurant and bar that is owned by her husband. Amid the Ottoman- and Selcuk-inspired flourishes she has sprinkled around the restaurant are echoes of designs seen at the Sakirin Mosque. A glass chandelier made of hundreds of crystal tear drops hangs above the bar, similar in style to the mosque's chandelier.
Fadillioglu said being a night club owner does not prevent her from also being a Muslim.
"You might be surprised in Turkey to find some very modern-looking people being very religious at the same time," she said.
Religion is a hot-button political issue in Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country with a strict secular system of government.
For the past eight years a fierce power struggle has been under way between an urban secular elite and a rising new class of religiously conservative Turks from the Anatolian heartlands. Unlike the wives of Turkey's Islamic-rooted president and prime minister, Fadillioglu does not wear the Islamic headscarf that is often seen as the symbol of this new class of Turks.
Fadillioglu said politics have polarized society.
"In my childhood ... you didn't differentiate between who was religious," she explained. "Whoever wants to worship or visit this mosque, its open, its ready for them."
On May 8, Turkey's prime minister attended an inauguration ceremony for the Sakirin Mosque.
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Afterward, in an interview with CNN, the mufti of Istanbul called it the start of a new era of mosque design in Turkey.
"It is in Islamic tradition for women to commission mosques ... and now we have women who are building mosques as well," Cagrici said. "God willing, I hope the world will see more of these beautiful mosques, touched by women's hands."
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Bolo-Hauz - the Emir's Mosque in Bukhara is the 17th century mosque, which was a place of prayer for the Emirs and their entourage. Bolo-Hauz Mosque is the only preserved monument in Registan Square that includes: multi-column aivan, domed mosque, minaret and a small pool.
Bolo-Hauz Mosque is the only surviving monument in Registan Square, which includes a mosque, minaret and a pool. The pool is the oldest part of the ensemble and is one of the few remaining in the ancient city; for the honor of this pool the mosque is called Bolo-Hauz (children’s pool). In the water of the pond one can see a reflection of the colorfully painted ayvan – a gallery with colonnade – and of the minaret.
The Mosque was built in 1712 for the mother of Ashtarkhanid ruler Abul Fayud Khan (1711-47). Another version states that the Emir Shakhmurad (1785-1800) built it for public prayers, because he liked to be closer to his people. Although the mosque was built as a royal chapel, it has become a significant civic monument as a consequence of its eminent site near the famed Registan Square.
Later, Bukhara’s last Emir Sayyid Alim Khan (1910-20) ordered to build a richly decorated entry ‘aywan’ (terrace) to the mosque’s eastern façade during a general reconstruction of the area in 1914-17. In 1917, famed local master craftsman, Shirin Muradov built a small minaret in front of the mosque.
Also known as the Forty Pillar Mosque, this is where the Emir would stride out of a Friday from his residence in the nearby Registan for the noon prayers. Its slender, elegantly carved wooden pillars hold up a beautifully restored painted coffered ceiling. On Fridays once again the faithful come here to pray, and there are often so many that they spill out of the mosque onto the platform near the reflecting pool.
The As Syakirin Mosque (Malay: Masjid As Syakirin), also known as KLCC Mosque, is a mosque located in the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC). The mosque is situated near the Suria KLCC shopping centre and the Petronas Twin Towers, the tallest twin towers in the world.[1]
In 2009, the mosque went through a major renovation to increase the capacity from 6000 people to 12,000 people.
Mosque initially registered as a prayer on July 12, 1999 for Petronas staff, and status as a mosque before being administered by the Federal Territory Islamic Religious Council (religious council).
This two-storey mosque area of 21 hectares. It is regarded as the jewel in the park because of its strategic location and facing KLCC Park also provides a hall that can accommodate up to 500 people with audio system complete with meeting rooms and room remains.
Ash-Syakirin name means' the people of the grateful chosen as the official name for this mosque. The mosque is an architectural landmark of Islam in a rapidly developing area in the capital city, Kuala Lumpur.
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Grand Mosque, Sousse (Tunisia).
Situated next to the ribat, the corner towers and general fortified aspect of the 9th century Mosque indicates that it was probably originally part of Sousse's fortified area or kasbah. Built in 851, a few years after the re-foundation of the town by the Aghlabids, on the odel of the Sidi Oqba Mosque in Kairouan. Following recent restoration work the exterior has recovered its original apperance.
For non-Muslims is possible to enter only into the inner courtyard there.
Sousse is a city in Tunisia. Located 140 km south of the capital Tunis. Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea. The name may be of Berber origin: similar names are found in Libya and in the south of Morocco (Bilad al-Sus). The city is the capital of Sousse Governorate. Its economy is based on transport equipment, processed food, olive oil, textiles and tourism. It is home to the Université de Sousse.
City retains a medieval heart of narrow, twisted streets, a kasbah and medina, its ribat fortress and long wall on the Mediterranean. Surrounding it is a modern city of long, straight roads and more widely spaced buildings.
Sousse is an important tourist resort. Hotel complexes extend 20 km from the old city (Medina) north along the seafront to Port El Kantaoui. The fine sandy beaches are backed by orchards and olive groves. The historic Medina is well preserved, and includes open and covered bazaars (souks), where wares are mainly aimed at tourists, as well as the ribat castle, the central mosque, and a historical museum in the Casbah with mosaics from the area's many Roman villas.
شكل استوار گنبدي بر روي يك اتاق چها گوش كه ميراث معماري ساساني است در اين مسجد كوچك زيبا بار ديگر نمايان شده. آنرا شاه عباس روبروي قصر و به افتخار پدرزن روحانيش ساخت. اين اتاق منفرد و جالب است كه بيشتر حالت نمازخانه خصوصي دارد، در اينجا هم مثل مسجد جامع عباسی(شاه-امام) براي قرار دادن شبستان در جهت قبله نوعي تعديل به عمل آمده كه مستلزم ْ45 انحراف از محور شمالي-جنوبي ميدان بوده و براي اين منظور از پيچي ابتكاري و ناپيدا در دالان مسجد استفاده شده است.شخص وقتي داخل شبستان ميشود محراب درست روبرويش قرار گرفته است تغيير جهت از بيرون ناپيداست زيرا از بيرون تنها گنبد در بالاي ديوارها ديده ميشود كه سراسر ميدان را پر ميكند
گنبد كوتاه تك پوشه آن به قطر 12 متر بار فراوانش را كه روي ديوارهاي قطور به قطر 170قرارگرفته به بنا استحکامی آرام می بخشد