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Too bad that this is the highest resolution of the photo.
My camera's lacked camera-esque qualities. Would have been able to frame the shot nicely if the viewfinder actually worked!
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultan Ahmet Camii) is a historic mosque in Istanbul. The mosque is popularly known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior. It was built from 1609 to 1616, during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains a tomb of the founder, a madrasah and a hospice. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque is still popularly used as a mosque.
The side of Isa Khan's Mosque in New Delhi, showing the cumulative effects of centuries of construction and modification
The Badshahi Mosque (بادشاھی مسجد), or the 'Emperor's Mosque', was built in 1673 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in Lahore, Pakistan. It is one of the city's best known landmarks, and a major tourist attraction epitomising the beauty and grandeur of the Mughal era.
Capable of accommodating over 55,000 worshippers, it is the second largest mosque in Pakistan, after the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. The architecture and design of the Badshahi Masjid is closely related to the Jama Masjid in Delhi, India, which was built in 1648 by Aurangzeb's father and predecessor, emperor Shah Jahan.
Construite entre 1612 et 1627 par le roi safavide Shâh Abbâs Ier, la mosquée Royale à Ispahan (aujourd’hui la mosquée de l’Imam) est l’une des plus belles mosquées d’Iran. Conçue par un architecte de la ville, Ali Akbar Esfahâni, elle possède, à la différence de tant d'autres mosquées transformées au cours des siècles, une remarquable unité architecturale et décorative. Son splendide décor de céramique émaillée, où des motifs végétaux (symboles paradisiaques) s'associent à des calligraphies de la parole divine (noms saints, versets coraniques), emploie principalement du jaune (évoquant le soleil et la lumière divine), du bleu et du turquoise (des couleurs associées au ciel dans la tradition persane). À la verticale du centre de la grande coupole se trouve au sol, une dalle noire. Si vous vous trouvez sur cette dalle, tout ce que vous dites est répété sept fois
Selimiye Mosque (Greek: Τέμενος Σελιμιγιέ Témenos Selimigié; Turkish: Selimiye Camii), historically known as Cathedral of St Sophia, is a former Roman Catholic cathedral converted into a mosque, located in North Nicosia. It is the main mosque of the city. The Selimiye Mosque is housed in the largest and oldest surviving Gothic church in Cyprus (interior dimensions: 66 x 21 m) possibly constructed on the site of an earlier Byzantine church.
On 13 August 1954, the Mufti of Cyprus officially renamed the mosque "Selimiye Mosque", in honour of the Ottoman sultan Selim II, who headed the empire during the conquest of Cyprus.
In total, the mosque has a capacity to hold 2500 worshippers with 1750m² available for worship. It is the largest surviving historical building in Nicosia, and according to sources, it "may have been the largest church built in the Eastern Mediterranean in the millennium between the rise of Islam and the late Ottoman period". It was the coronation church for the Lusignan kings of Cyprus.
Malacca, Malaysia
Descriptive : The Malacca Straits Mosque (Malay: Masjid Selat Melaka) is a mosque located on the man-made Malacca Island near Malacca Town in Malacca state, Malaysia. It looks like a floating structure if the water level is high. Construction cost of the mosque is about MYR10 million.The Opening Ceremony was done on the 24th of November 2006 by the Supreme Ruler of Malaysia (Yang di-Pertuan Agong) Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Syed Putra Jamalullail.
source : wikipedia
Al-Aqsa Mosque :: Haram al-Sharif, Temple Mount :: Jerusalem, Old City :: 11/2005
Sam Rohn :: Location Scout :: New York City
The mosque in Bohoniki was originally built when the Tartar Muslim community settled in the 17th century, though it is said that the recent one dates to the mid 19th century.
Read the background on the Polish Tartar Muslim community:
www.islamonline.net/English/artculture/2005/04/article03....
King Mosque is a mosque and a Cultural Monument of Albania, located in Berat. It became a Cultural Monument in 1948. The mosque was built in the 15th century by Bayezid II.
Kalon Mosque has 288 domes. A lone tree is in its courtyard. Photo taken on July 08, 2012 in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
Mosque, Köln
Paul Böhm, Architect
One of the two minarettes as seen from (almost) the top of the curved concrete shells which form the roof of the mosque.
(See large) A beautiful mosque at sunset in Sharjah. Sharjah is one of seven emirates that form the United Arab Emirates. It is adjacent to Dubai.
In old times, before the availability of speakers, a moazzin, or the person who calls to prayers 5 times a day would climb up the minaret and announce the call to prayer from the top of the minaret.
this mosque has had so many pictures on flickr, but oh well. i also gave a try to capture this beautiful mosque.