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Albania - Tirana - Mosque of Et'hem Bey.
Et'hem Bey Mosque. Perhaps the only real sight in Tirana, this pretty mosque is right on the city's
main square, making it hard to miss. Construction of the 'Xhamia e Haxhi Ethem Beut' mosque started in 1794 and was finished in 1821 by Et'hem Bey (who evidently got all the credit). Closed under communist rule, the mosque reopened as a house of worship in 1991, without permission from the authorities. 10,000 courageous people dared to attend and remarkably the police did not interfere. The event was a milestone in the rebirth of religious freedom in Albania. Take a look at the frescoes outside and in the portico which depict trees, waterfalls and bridges - motifs rarely seen in Islamic art. Take your shoes off before entering the inner room.
Süleymaniye Mosque
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New mosque near Fenchuganj, sylhet. Now a days beautiful and big mosque are being build in many places. This is middle east style mosque. Another is at Gutia, Banaripara, Barisal. That one is real Big.
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مسجد الفاتح من المساجد المعروفة في البحرين، ويعد من معالمها
مسجد الفاتح - المعروف أيضا باسم الفاتح الإسلامي ومركز الفاتح المسجد الحرام
هو واحد من أكبر المساجد في العالم ، قادرة على استيعاب أكثر من 7،000 مصلي في كل صلاة . المسجد هو أكبر مكان للعبادة في البحرين .
وهو يقع بالقرب .
المسجد يقع في منطقة ساحلية ويحتوي متحف ومكتبة وقريب من الطريق السريع لللملك فيصل في الجفير ، وهي مدينة تقع في العاصمة البحرانية المنامة. كما إنه يقع على الساحل وكورنيش النادي البحري وايضاً فندق الخليج
كما ان المسجد قريب جدا من القصر الملكي البحريني ، مقر اقامة ملك البحرين حمد بن عيسى آل خليفة.
ويتكون المسجد من قبة ضخمة بنيت على أعلى مسجد الفاتح من الألياف الزجاجية النقي. أكثر من 60 رتل والمرجح (60،000 كلغ) ، وتعتبر هذه اكبر قبة فى العالم مصنوعة من الألياف الزجاجية.
مسجد الفاتح يضم الآن المكتبة الوطنية الجديدة التي افتتحت للجمهور في عام 2006
وقد بني المسجد من قبل الراحل الشيخ عيسى بن سلمان آل خليفة في عام 1987. ويدعى أحمد بعد الفاتح ، الفاتح من البحرين
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The Al-Fateh Mosque
The Al-Fateh Mosque (also known as Al-Fateh Islamic Center ) is one of the largest mosques in the world
capable of accommodating over 7,000 worshippers at a time. The mosque is the largest place of worship in Bahrain.
It is located next to the King Faisal Highway in Juffair, which is a town located in the capital city of Manama.
The mosque very close to the Royal Bahraini Palace, the residence of the king of Bahrain Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah.
The huge dome built on top of the Al-Fatih Mosque is made of pure fiberglass. Weighting over 60 t (60,000 kg), the dome is currently the worlds largest fibreglass dome.
Al-Fateh now includes the new National Library which opened to the public in 2006. The mosque was built by the late Sheikh Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifa in 1987. It is named after Ahmed Al Fateh, the conqueror of Bahrain
This is probably my favourite mosque. It's not gaudy, it's not frivolous, it's a domed building in the middle of a courtyard. It's as good as the pyramids.
The Shah Jahan Mosque was built in the reign of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. It is located in Thatta, Sindh province, Pakistan. It has been on the tentative UNESCO World Heritage list since 1993.
In the town of Thatta (100 km / 60 miles from Karachi) itself, there is famous Shahjahani Mosque with its beautiful architecture. This mosque was built in 1647 during the reign of Mughal King Shah Jahan, also known as the builder King. The mosque is built with red bricks with blue coloured glaze tiles probably imported from another Sindh's town of Hala. The mosque has overall 93 domes and it is world's largest mosque having such number of domes. It has been built keeping acoustics in mind. A person speaking inside one end of the dome can be heard at the other end when the speech exceeds 100 decibels.
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The shah Faisal Mosque is the largest mosque of Islamabad, Pakistan. It is superbly situated near the Margalla Hills, represents an eight-faceted desert 'tent' supported on four towering minarets.
It has sloping roofs, an opulent marble face and four towering minarets. The complex also houses the Islamic Research Centre, library, museum, lecture hall, cafeteria and the offices of the faculty of the Islamic University situated there.
Building work on the masjid started in 1976. Costing an estimated SR 130 million, it covers an area of 53,821 square feet [5,000 sq m] and can accommodate 10,000 worshippers and a further 40,000 in the adjacent squares.
The main mosque in downtown Riyadh scanned from "Riyadh Album".
It was best avoided on Friday mornings.
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.
Мече́ть Ортакё́й (тур. Ortaköy Camii), официальное название Больша́я мече́ть Меджидие́ (тур. Büyük Mecidiye Camii) — мечеть в Стамбуле. Расположена в новой части города в районе Ортакёй рядом с Босфорским мостом. Построена в 1853—1854 годах, имеет два минарета.
Masjid Negara. It does not follow the conventional Middle Eastern mosque design of domes and arches.
The Hassan II Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الحسن الثاني), located in Casablanca is the largest mosque in Morocco and the third largest mosque in the world after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca and the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina. Designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau and built by Bouygues. It stands on a promontory looking out to the Atlantic, which can be seen through a gigantic glass floor with room for 25,000 worshippers. A further 80,000 can be accommodated in the mosque's adjoining grounds. Its minaret is the world's tallest at 210 m (689 ft).
A prayer book on a stand in 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.
This is the picture of front door of the mosque. This mosque is in Overbrook avenue, just behind the Saint Joseph's University.
A mosque in Egypt. Taken through a coach window travelling at least 60mph, so this image turned out rather well, considering!
Architecturally unique, this Jami mosque is distinct in its layout as well as in its materials. It is the first mosque in this region to be constructed according to the principles of Mughal courtyard architecture. Atypical of mosques, this building is elongated along the east-west rather than the usual north-south axis. Red brick is utilized rather than the pink sandstone and marble more commonly associated with Mughal buildings. Quite likely, the decision to use brick was made out of practical concerns of cost and availability, since Thatta does not have much stone. The surfaces are decorated with glazed tiles.
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One of the two historic mosques of Timbuktu (the other being the Jingereber), the Sankore mosque was built during the declining years of the Empire of Mali, in the early 15th century A.D. Architecturally, it is remarkable for its large pyramidal mihrab. But this is not its real claim to fame -- indeed, it is smaller and less intricate than earlier Malian mosques including the 13th century mosque of Djenne. Instead, it is famous for being the center of the great Islamic scholarly community at Timbuktu during the 16th century A.D. The medieval "University of Timbuktu," often referred to as the "University of Sankore" was very different in organization to the universities of medieval Europe. It had no central administration, student registers, or prescribed courses of study; rather, it was composed of several entirely independent schools or colleges, each run by a single master or imam. Students associated themselves with a single teacher, and courses took place in the open courtyards of mosque complexes or private residences. The primary focus of these schools was the teaching of the Koran, although broader instruction in fields such as logic, astronomy, and history also took place. As anyone who wished could establish one of these colleges, standards amongst them are said to have been very uneven. However the imams of the Sankore mosque are known to have been the most respected. The university was adversely affected by the Moroccan invasion of the 1590s and the deportation of its best scholars. It never again regained its 16th century eminence.
by K.C. McDonald
The Süleymaniye Mosque, built on the order of Sultan Süleyman (Süleyman the Magnificent), "was fortunate to be able to draw on the talents of the architectural genius of Mimar Sinan" (481 Traditions and Encounters: Brief Global History). The construction work began in 1550 and the mosque was finished in 1557.
This "vast religious complex called the Süleymaniye...blended Islamic and Byzantine architectural elements. It combines tall, slender minarets with large domed buildings supported by half domes in the style of the Byzantine church Hagia Sophia (which the Ottomans converted into the mosque of Aya Sofya)" (481 Traditions and Encounters: Brief Global History).
The design of the Süleymaniye also plays on Suleyman's self-conscious representation of himself as a 'second Solomon.' It references the Dome of the Rock, which was built on the site of the Temple of Solomon, as well as Justinian's boast upon the completion of the Hagia Sophia: "Solomon, I have surpassed thee!"[1] The Süleymaniye, similar in magnificence to the preceding structures, asserts Suleyman's historical importance. The structure is nevertheless smaller in size than its older archetype, the Hagia Sophia.