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Bezmialem Valide Sultan Mosque was building by the architect Nikogos Balyan who created many important works in the 19th century Ottoman architecture. Bezmialem Valide Sultan Mosque attention with its baroque style architecture.
Sheikh Zayed Mosque, reflection pool, Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2023
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La mosquée et le pavillon des invités sont les deux bâtiments rouges de part et d'autres du mausolée du Taj Mahal. Ils sont censés être totalement identiques, pour une question de symétrie, mais en réalité ils diffèrent légèrement l'un de l'autre. Les deux sont sur le "Chameli Farsh", c'est le nom qu'on donne à la terasse à 9m de hauteur qu'il y a au bout du complexe du Taj Mahal et qui contient, outre le mausolée, la mosquée et le pavillon des invités, deux bassins remplis d'eau, entre les bâtiments annexes et le bâtiment principal.
Sancaklar Mosque is a mosque in the Büyükçekmece district of Istanbul. Designed by Emre Arolat, the mosque was opened in 2013. It received many awards for its innovative design. In 2015, it was awarded the ArchDaily "Religious Building of the Year" Award.
The mosque is located in a natural setting surrounded by rolling hills and greenery in the countryside. The design aims to integrate with the natural environment and create a tranquil environment for worship. The exterior facade is made of raw concrete. The interior design is simple and contemporary in style. There are also steps for praying in the prayer area. The prayer area has natural lighting coming from the qibla side. There is a separate section and a separate entrance for women in the mosque.
Istanbul is an incredible place to visit. This image features just the Blue Mosque which is one of many historical sites around the city. Istanbul is a melting pot of culture and historical events. The Blue Mosque, as it is popularly known, was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah and a hospice. Hand-painted blue tiles adorn the mosque’s interior walls and, at night, the mosque is bathed in blue as lights frame the mosque’s five main domes, six minarets and eight secondary domes. It sits next to the Hagia Sophia, another impressive historical destination in the city.
Juma Mosque is a 10th–18th century mosque in Khiva, Uzbekistan. It is one of the principal monuments of Itchan Kala, the walled old city of Khiva, which is a World Heritage Site. It stands in the middle of Itchan Kala, on the road connecting the west gate and the east gate.
This image was inspired by the majestic Great Mosque of Xi'an in a vibrant, whimsical Asian mountainscape, teeming with exotic flowers, winding pathways, and ancient trees. The scene is set at dusk, with warm, golden light casting long shadows across the intricately tiled mosque, as the surrounding mountains are painted with hues of sapphire, amethyst, and rose. The atmosphere is mystical, with a sense of ancient history and wonder.
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Sultan Qaboos Mosque, outside, Muscat, Oman, April 2023
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Badshahi Mosque was commissioned by Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671, with construction of the mosque lasting for two years until 1673. The mosque is an important example of Mughal architecture, with an exterior that is decorated with carved red sandstone with marble inlay. It remains the largest and most recent of the grand imperial mosques of the Mughal-era, and is the second-largest mosque in Pakistan.[4] After the fall of the Mughal Empire, the mosque was used as a garrison by the Sikh Empire and the British Empire, and is now one of Pakistan's most iconic sights.
Stoke Newington, Hackney, London. Originally The Apollo Picture House built in 1913 it went through various name changes and closed as a cinema in 1983. It was bought by the UK Turkish Islamic Association and, eventually, converted into a mosque, restaurant, butchers shop and school. It is unique in that services are conducted in Turkish as opposed to the usual Arabic or English.
At Taksim Square in Istanbul, under construction. All the flags are for the celebration of Ataturk's birthday.
The Blue Mosque, or Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii), built between 1609-1616, showcases a novel engineering technique of stacking domes to support its vast, spacious interior. Inspired by Byzantine architecture, the large central dome is flanked by smaller semi-domes, distributing the roof’s weight effectively. This creates an open, grand interior while maintaining structural stability, making it an architectural marvel of the Ottoman Empire.
Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2023
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It was possibly built as early as in the 15th century by Bengal Sultanate and evidences suggest it could be either a jail or a tomb, but not a mosque, while it is more popular to be called as Mosque or Masjid.
The name Chika is also connected to bat as there are numerous bats inside the hall.
Taken in Gaur, Malda, West Bengal, India
Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Built in 1712. The wooden painted columns were added in 1917 to help support the sagging exterior roof. It served as a Friday mosque during the time when the emir of Bukhara was being subjugated under the Bolshevik Russian rule in the 1920s.
During my trip I have seen many wonderful mosques. This one in Edirne Turkey was one of the best, certainly the interior with the beautiful red carpet, and all the light, the ceiling etc. Everything was very well thought of and sophisticated.
I tried to get the cupola also in one shot, but that caused to much distortion, so you have to do with this shot!
20 September I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.
The dome over the main hall of the Grand Mosque in Astana, Kazakhstan is the largest of its kind in the world rising to 83.2 meters with a diameter of 62 meters.
—from Wikipedia
Nursultan Mosque (Kazakh: Нұрсұлтан мешіті) is a mosque in Astana, Kazakhstan. It is the largest mosque in Central Asia, the second largest mosque outside the Middle East, and one of the largest in the world.
On March 18, 2019, the initiator of the project, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, laid the foundation stone at the site of the new mosque. The construction was funded by private investors, and no state budget funds were used. On August 12, 2022, the Grand Republican Mosque was officially inaugurated with the participation of Nazarbayev. On July 4, 2026, the mosque was officially named “Nursultan Mosque”.
The main dome of the mosque is the largest of its kind in the world. The height of the dome is almost 83.2 meters with a diameter of 62 meters. The surrounding four minarets are 130 meters and are made of five parts to symbolize the five pillars of Islam - faith, prayer, fasting, zakat and pilgrimage. One of the towers in the left wing has been opened to the public. Guests can take an elevator up and admire the view of the city.
The entrance door of the mosque is considered one of the tallest wooden doors in the world, standing at 12.4 meters with a weight of one and a half tons. The material is made of hard iroko wood, which grows in tropical Africa. The doors are decorated with Kazakh patterns and the outer walls with white Arabic script on a blue background.
The interior doors of the mosque are 12 meters high and the windows are made of handmade stained glass with colorful ornaments.
The walls of the mosque and the inside of the dome are decorated with colorful patterns, verses from the Quran and prayers. The Arabic calligraphy was illustrated by Kazakh master Asylbek Baizakuly.
The wall on the side facing the qibla is inscribed with the 99 names of Allah, illuminated with golden light from within. The mosaic wall is 100 meters long and 22.4 meters high and consists of 25 million glasses of different colors.
The big hall and the women's prayer zone are fully covered with Kazakh ornamental carpets. The total area of the carpet is 15,525 square meters, making it the largest handmade carpet in the world.
The Red Mosque is a building in the palace gardens at Schwetzingen. It was built under Prince-elector Charles-Theodore in the 18th century for the main reason that "Turkish style" was fashionable at the time. The architecture has certain elements which you wouldn't find in a real mosque and it was never intended for prayer but it later served religious purposes at various times.
The Blue Mosque, officially the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultan Ahmet Camii), is an Ottoman-era historical imperial mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. It was constructed between 1609 and 1617 during the rule of Ahmed I and remains a functioning mosque today. It also attracts a large number of tourists and is one of the most iconic and popular monuments of Ottoman architecture.
Of the countries in Central Asia that I visited, Turkmenistan was the strangest and certainly the most oppressive that I have visited (by writing these words, It means that I presumably will never get an entrance visa anymore).
Although the people were friendly, especially in the capital Ashkabat people were cautious and often not willing to speak to us.
Ashkabat itself is a rather insane capital. Former president Niyazov started a building program that resulted in a complete new city center where all old building were (and are still) demolished and replaced by
grand buildings made of white marble, and with big boulevards (12 lanes wide) where hardly cars are driving. If you have a car it has to be white and clean. On every street corner you can see police etc. The city gives you an impression how old Rome might have looked around the Forum Romanum. Impressive it is, but with a rather poor population, you wonder if the oil and gas dollars couldn't have been spend a little bit better.
The image here is from a mosque that was built under Nyasov, and next to the mosque is the mausoleum that contains the body of Nyasov who died two years after the mosque was finished. The mosque itself is absolutely smashing, but it is somewhat strange when you see soldiers who guard the complex.
We met a few people from Turkmenistan who said the president who now is reigning is the best president they ever had. I am afraid I have my doubts about that, seeing all that I saw.
20 September I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.
The Rustem Pasha Mosque is an Ottoman mosque in the Tahtakale neighborhood of the Eminonu district.Istanbul, Turkey. It was the first time I had ever entered a mosque. The women had to cover their heads with a scarf, and everyone removed their shoes and placed them in a bag. The small mosque was quiet and peaceful, and it is said to be one of the most beautiful in the entire world.
The National Mosque of Malaysia, also known as Masjid Negara, is well-regarded as the nationwide symbol of Islam. Located within the Kuala Lumpur Lake Gardens, this blue-hued building houses a main prayer hall with 48 smaller domes, a 73-metre minaret and a 16-pointed star concrete main roof. Contemporary interpretations of traditional Islamic art and calligraphy, abstract shapes and geometric lattices are incorporated into its roofing and ironworks, while the walls of the Grand Hall are beautifully adorned with verses from the Koran.
Mosques litter the skyline in the Middle East, however if your stop and look intricate and beautiful details always reveal themselves.
La mosquée Kuqa est la deuxième plus grande mosquée du Xinjiang , juste après la mosquée Id Kah à Kashgar . Fait de briques, il a été reconstruit après l'incendie de la mosquée d'origine en 1931. Dans son enceinte se trouve le seul tribunal religieux du Xinjiang. La mosquée Kuqa est la seule mosquée de Chine à avoir conservé le système de la chariya (tribunal islamique).
La première porte de la mosquée mesure 18,3 mètres de haut, construite en brique bleue. La mosquée est composée du minaret Xuanli, d'une grande salle, d'un tombeau inconnu, de la salle d'apprentissage des Écritures, du tribunal religieux, etc., couvrant une vaste superficie de 1 165 000 mètres carrés. La salle de culte de la mosquée mesure 1500 mètres carrés et peut accueillir 3000 personnes.
D'après diapositive.
The mosque was initially built in 1712, which is one of the last and finest of Bukhara's major buildings prior to the modern era. Those long wooden Iwans were added much later in 1912.
he mosque is a curious hybrid design reflecting Bukhara's harsh climate—stifling heat in summer months, bone-chilling cold in the winter, with periods of pleasant weather in between.
Taken in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
silhouette shot of our local Mosque here in Likas, Sabah. The sky was perfect that day!
Have a great day my friends!
Sultan Ahmed Mosque
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Sultan Ahmed Mosque prayer hall
No special arrangements or tickets are required to enter the Blue Mosque outside of daily prayer times (see first link)
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Autumn in Europe 2025
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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.