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The Gate to the Badshahi Mosque. Constructed by the Mughals' between 1671 and 1673 it was the largest mosque in the world upon construction. Lahore, Pakistan
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Al Rahmah Mosque, also known as the Floating Mosque, is one of the most popular attractions of the city of Jeddah. Built on the shore of the Red Sea, the structure appears to be floating on the water as it is built on pillars.
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Hagia Sophia is a great architectural beauty and an important monument both for Byzantine and for Ottoman Empires. Once a church, later a mosque, and now a museum at the Turkish Republic, Hagia Sophia has always been the precious of its time..
The Süleymaniye Mosque is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey. It is the second largest mosque in the city, and one of the best-known sights of Istanbul.The Süleymaniye Mosque, built on the order of Sultan Süleyman, "was fortunate to be able to draw on the talents of the architectural genius of Mimar Sinan. The construction work began in 1550 and the mosque was finished in 1557.
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque or Sultan Ahmet Mosque is a historic mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A popular tourist site, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque continues to function as a mosque today; men still kneel in prayer on the mosque's lush red carpet after the call to prayer.
Melaka Straits Mosque, near Melaka City, Malaysia.
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Edirne historically known as Adrianople, is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated 7 km from the Greek and 20 km from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second capital city of the Ottoman Empire from the 1360s to 1453, before Constantinople became its capital.
The Selimiye Mosque is an Ottoman imperial mosque, located in the city of Edirne (formerly Adrianople), Turkey. It was commissioned by Sultan Selim II and was built by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan between 1568 and 1575. It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements of Islamic architecture as a whole and Ottoman architecture in particular.
The mosque, together with its külliye, was included on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2011.
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.
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.
also known as the Blue Mosque, is an Ottoman-era friday mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. It also attracts large numbers of tourist visitors & was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I.
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.
Sheikh Zayed Mosque, reflection pool, Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2023
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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.
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.
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.
Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2023
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Sheikh Zayed Mosque, close-up, Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2023
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At Taksim Square in Istanbul, under construction. All the flags are for the celebration of Ataturk's birthday.
The mosque was designed by the famous Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan and completed in 1566, during the years the Ottomans had control of the city. The mosque derives its name from the phrase Banya Bashi, which means many baths. In the Turkish language Banyo means bath and BaÅŸ (pronounced Bash) means 'head' or 'main', so looking at the location it is built on, a more logical translation of the name would be 'Head of the bath mosque'. The most outstanding feature of the mosque is that it was actually built over natural thermal spas; one can even see the steam rising from vents in the ground near the mosque walls. The mosque is famous for its large dome, diameter 15m, and the minaret.
Currently, the Banya Bashi Mosque is the only functioning mosque in Sofia, a remnant of the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria that lasted nearly five centuries, and is used by the city's Muslim community.
Suleymaniye mosque, Fatih district, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2020
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This Ottoman imperial mosque was built in 1557. The mosque was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. For 462 years, the Süleymaniye Mosque was the largest mosque in the city, until it was surpassed by the Çamlıca Mosque in 2019
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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.
Malacca Floating Mosque
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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.
After the mysterious Easter Island, I take you to visit one of the masterpieces of architecture, the Grand Mosque Sheikh Zayed in Abu Dhabi. We will live the magic moment of sunset, when the mosque transforms into a palace of Arabian Nights.
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.
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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.
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.