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Framed through Hazuri Bagh Baradari.
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This Mosque was built in 1958 and was named after Omar Ali Saifuddien, the 28th Sultan of Brunei. Currently, it is considered one of the most magnificent mosques in the entire Southeast Asian region. This mosque can be found on the river banks of Bandar in Bandar Seri Begawan
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (Arabic :جامع الشيخ زايد الكبير) is located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque was initiated by the late President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. His final resting place is located on the grounds beside the same mosque.
As the country’s grand mosque, it is the key place of worship for Friday gathering and Eid prayers. It is the largest mosque in the UAE and numbers during Eid can be more than forty thousand people.
Downtown Beirut is the place where several mosques and churches stand together, side by side, to prove something!
Quite impressivly, this huge mosque was build in 1997.
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"The Islamic Cultural Centre which includes the London Central Mosque has been established since 1944. It was officially opened by His Majesty King George VI in November 1944. The 2.3 acres of site adjacent to Hanover Gate in Regent's Park, was presented as an unconditional gift from the British Government to the UK Muslim Community in Britain to enable the latter, to build a mosque and an Islamic Cultural Centre, to conduct the affairs pertaining to their faith. A Mosque Committee comprising various prominent Muslim diplomats and Muslim residents in the United Kingdom gratefully accepted the gift which was intended mainly as a tribute to the thousands of Indian Muslim soldiers who had died defending the then British Empire, which at the time, had more Muslim inhabitants than Christians."
From the roof of the guest house. Kabul is heavily polluted, and the pollution hangs in the air day and night, making clear shots difficult.
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from "Archnet.org"
The Nusretiye Mosque was erected between 1823 and 1826 by Mahmud II (1784-1839) as part of a larger project to rebuild the Tophane artillery barracks that burnt in the Firuzaga fire. It is located off the Western shore of the Bosphorus, below Tophane or the Canon Foundry established by Mehmed II (1432-1481) and was built on the former site of the Mosque of the Artillery Barracks (Tophane-i Amire Arabacilar Kislasi Camii) built by Selim III (1789-1807). In style, the mosque signifies a transition from Ottoman baroque to empire style. Its architect is Krikor Balyan (1764-1831), who is the first in nine architects belonging to the Armenian Balyan family who served the royal family throughout the nineteenth century. The mosque was named Nusretiye or Victory, in celebration of the sultan's recent abolition of the rebellious janissary troops in favor of a new western-style army -- an event known in Ottoman history as Vaka-i Hayriye or the auspicious event.
When it was built, the Nusretiye mosque stood to the northeast of a rectangular parade ground facing the Bosphorus with the Meclis-i Mebusan or Parliament Street at its back. The artillery barracks, built by Mahmud II at the same time as the mosque, bound the southwest side of the parade ground. His successor, Abdülmecid I (1839-1861), added a clock tower (Tophane saat kulesi) at the center of the grounds and built the royal Tophane kiosk (Tophane Kasri) at the street end of the longitudinal axis. In 1866, the neo-classical strip housing the offices of the marshals was built on the other side of Meclis-i Mebusan Street from the Tophane kiosk and the fenced parade ground, completing the monumental appearance of the military complex seen in older photographs. Only the mosque, the clock tower and the Tophane kiosk have survived the mid 1950s urban renewal and highway construction programs. The parade ground was developed into a trade entrepôt with concrete warehouses extending into newly infilled grounds behind the mosque. The mosque stands today on Necati Bey Street, having lost its historical context and connection with the water. It was restored between 1955 and 1958, and again in 1980 and 1992.
The mosque stands raised on a tall basement, oriented along the northwest-southeast axis. It consists of a square prayer hall with narthex and mihrab apse, and a large sultan's kiosk, which wraps the west and north corners at the front, on either side of the tall portico. Side arcades made of five domed bays flank the prayer hall on the exterior. Although the mosque lacks a monumental courtyard, a prominent feature in classical Ottoman mosques, it has a small side courtyard that adjoins the prayer hall to the northeast. The side arcade on this side is a few steps below the courtyard whereas to the southwest the arcade has two-stories and has a door at the lower colonnade that leads down to the basement level.
The mosque portal is located at the center of the three-bay portico, a monumental baroque entrance with two staircases leading up to its terrace. The staircases are framed on either side by the projecting bays of the sultan's kiosk, which is raised to the height of the portico domes carried on arches and columns, forming open terraces below. The residential-looking sultan's kiosk dominates the front façade of the mosque and zigzags around the corners where the minarets are attached to form wings projecting outwards into the parade ground and the side courtyard. It is entered primarily from a baroque portal adjoining the side arcade on the southwest façade; there are secondary entrances on either side of the portico.
Inside, the prayer hall is crowned with a single dome, raised on four grand arches that spring from the four corners. The narthex to the northwest has women's prayer section flanking the entrance and the muezzin's platform at the gallery level. The grand arch above the narthex is carried on two piers and three arches, the larger central arch mirrors the arch of the mihrab semi-dome across the hall. Along the southwest wall, to the right, is the sultan's lodge -- a balcony with gilt screens entered from the sultan's kiosk. Windows pierced into the tympana of the grand arches and twenty windows around the dome illuminate the interior from above. Of the two tiers of windows at the ground level, the lower casements are crowned with baroque vases carved in the marble tympana of the window arches. All of the upper windows have faux frames painted in the baroque style. The mihrab and minbar are carved of white marble and decorated with flowers and gilt garlands. Perhaps the most important decorative element on the interior is a calligraphic band inscribed with the Koranic sura of The Event or Al-Naba, which travels the interior located above the casement windows. It is written in gold celi style letters over a dark background by the famous calligrapher Mustafa Rakim (1757-1826).
The mosque has two minarets located at the west and east corners. Raised on tall square foundations, the fluted minaret shafts have bulbous bases and double balconies with wavy balustrades. In order to create a view for passing ships to read the string of lights with devotional messages (mahya) hung between the two minarets without being obstructed by the dome, the minarets were taken down and rebuilt taller in 1826. The superstructure, including the dome, is marked with exuberant architectural decorations. Curved pilasters with finials alternate with the dome windows and large bulbous weight turrets with pointed domes that are placed at the springing of the grand arches, which are bordered with lace-like cornices. The mosque is constructed primarily of cut stone.
To the northeast, the entrance to the small side courtyard is flanked by twin structures of the sabil (sebil), on the right, and the room of the timekeeper (muvakkithane), on the left. Positioned originally across the street, they were moved adjacent to the mosque during the rule of Abdülaziz I (1861-1879). They are round with arched grille windows facing the street and are crowned by conical domes with wavy eaves mirrored by wavy marble cornices with inscriptive plaques. A fountain kiosk erected beside the mosque by Abdülhamid II in 1901 has been moved to Maçka neighborhood as part of the urban renewal program.
Have a look at Zeit Online: www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2012-10/fs-moscheen-deutschland-2
See the whole series here: www.flickr.com/photos/michaeltimpe/sets/72157626018267479/
A documentation of mosques in germany. Many mosques in germany are located in industrial areas or backyards. This series aims to document typical mosques in germany beside the representative ones.
I got the idea for this report or documentation while looking for an arabic mosque for some colleagues from cairo. While searching for it I was surprised of the number and different kinds of mosques located in cologne and found it very interesting where there are located - mostly in the backyard. I remembered the book "Churches" from David Spero and started my own series.
Hope you enjoy it.
In Deutschland finden sich Moscheen meist in Gewerbegebieten oder auf Hinterhöfen.
Mit dieser Bildserie möchte ich typische Moscheen in Deutschland - zu Beginn in Köln - dokumentieren.
Auf die Idee für diese Serie kam ich, als ich für einen ägyptischen Kollegen, der uns für mehrere Monate in Köln besucht hat, eine Moschee gesucht habe. Dabei wurde ich nicht nur von der großen Anzahl und den vielen unterschiedlichen Arten von Moscheen überrascht sondern auch von der Tatsache, dass die meisten Moscheen in sehr schlichten und nach aussen praktisch unauffälligen Gebäuden - häufig in Gewerbegebieten aber auch in ganz normalen Wohnhäusern - untergebracht sind. Ich fühlte mich sofort an den Bildband "Churches" von David Spero erinnert und lege nun mit einer eigenen Serie los - Moscheen.
Viel Spaß dabei und Kommentare und Diskussionen sind wie immer ausdrücklich erwünscht.
Auf diesem Bild ist die Moschee einer bosnischen Gemeinde in Köln zu sehen.
Great Mecidiye Mosque, also known as Ortaköy Mosque, is one of the 19th century mosques located on the European side of the Bosphorus. It was built on the order of Sultan Abdülmecit, by the architect Nigoğos Balyan in 1853. The mosque was designed in neo-baroque style, according to the preferred architecural fashions of the period. After the earthquake in 1894, the cone of the minaret was repaired. In 1960 the mosque was near to collapse, so the foundation was improved with reinforcements. The building was again renovated after it was destroyed by fire in 1984. From 2011 - 2014 the Pious Foundation ran a full restoration project and the mosque reopened to visitors and for religious services on June 6, 2014.
#SALTResearch, Ali Saim Ãœlgen Archive
Halk arasında Ortaköy Camii olarak bilinen Büyük Mecidiye Camii, Boğaziçi’nin Rumeli yakasındaki 19 yüzyıl camilerindendir. 1853’te Sultan Abdülmecit tarafından mimar Nigoğos Balyan’a yaptırılan cami, dönemin eğilimine uygun olarak neo-barok üsluptadır. 1894’teki depremden sonra minaresinin külah bölümü onarılan cami, 1960’ta göçme tehlikesi nedeniyle temel güçlendirme çalışmasından geçirildi, 1984’te atlattığı yangının ardından da kapsamlı şekilde restore edildi. Son olarak, Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü tarafından 2011-2014 yıllarında yürütülen restorasyon çalışmasının ardından 6 Haziran 2014’te yeniden ibadet ve ziyarete açıldı.
#SALTAraştırma, Ali Saim Ülgen Arşivi
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Great Mecidiye Mosque, also known as Ortaköy Mosque, is one of the 19th century mosques located on the European side of the Bosphorus. It was built on the order of Sultan Abdülmecit, by the architect Nigoğos Balyan in 1853. The mosque was designed in neo-baroque style, according to the preferred architecural fashions of the period. After the earthquake in 1894, the cone of the minaret was repaired. In 1960 the mosque was near to collapse, so the foundation was improved with reinforcements. The building was again renovated after it was destroyed by fire in 1984. From 2011 - 2014 the Pious Foundation ran a full restoration project and the mosque reopened to visitors and for religious services on June 6, 2014.
#SALTResearch, Feridun Fazıl Tülbentçi Archive
Halk arasında Ortaköy Camii olarak bilinen Büyük Mecidiye Camii, Boğaziçi’nin Rumeli yakasındaki 19 yüzyıl camilerindendir. 1853’te Sultan Abdülmecit tarafından mimar Nigoğos Balyan’a yaptırılan cami, dönemin eğilimine uygun olarak neo-barok üsluptadır. 1894’teki depremden sonra minaresinin külah bölümü onarılan cami, 1960’ta göçme tehlikesi nedeniyle temel güçlendirme çalışmasından geçirildi, 1984’te atlattığı yangının ardından da kapsamlı şekilde restore edildi. Son olarak, Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü tarafından 2011-2014 yıllarında yürütülen restorasyon çalışmasının ardından 6 Haziran 2014’te yeniden ibadet ve ziyarete açıldı.
#SALTAraştırma, Feridun Fazıl Tülbentçi Arşivi
Repository: SALT Research
Rights Info: This material can be used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
Great Mecidiye Mosque, also known as Ortaköy Mosque, is one of the 19th century mosques located on the European side of the Bosphorus. It was built on the order of Sultan Abdülmecit, by the architect Nigoğos Balyan in 1853. The mosque was designed in neo-baroque style, according to the preferred architecural fashions of the period. After the earthquake in 1894, the cone of the minaret was repaired. In 1960 the mosque was near to collapse, so the foundation was improved with reinforcements. The building was again renovated after it was destroyed by fire in 1984. From 2011 - 2014 the Pious Foundation ran a full restoration project and the mosque reopened to visitors and for religious services on June 6, 2014.
#SALTResearch, Ali Saim Ãœlgen Archive
Halk arasında Ortaköy Camii olarak bilinen Büyük Mecidiye Camii, Boğaziçi’nin Rumeli yakasındaki 19 yüzyıl camilerindendir. 1853’te Sultan Abdülmecit tarafından mimar Nigoğos Balyan’a yaptırılan cami, dönemin eğilimine uygun olarak neo-barok üsluptadır. 1894’teki depremden sonra minaresinin külah bölümü onarılan cami, 1960’ta göçme tehlikesi nedeniyle temel güçlendirme çalışmasından geçirildi, 1984’te atlattığı yangının ardından da kapsamlı şekilde restore edildi. Son olarak, Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü tarafından 2011-2014 yıllarında yürütülen restorasyon çalışmasının ardından 6 Haziran 2014’te yeniden ibadet ve ziyarete açıldı.
#SALTAraştırma, Ali Saim Ülgen Arşivi
Repository: SALT Research
Rights Info: This material can be used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
Morocco.
High Atlas.
The mosque of Tin Mal that is visible today formed part of a larger, more fortified town (the settlement served as state treasury during the empire's early years) that was constructed over the original in 1154. Although the mosque is roofless today, its classical Almohad design -- subsequently used in the construction of the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech -- can still be appreciated. Central to this design is the T-shape interior with a central aisle leading to the mihrab, or prayer niche, decorated in the characteristically Almohadic palmettos, rosettes, and scallops. Strangely, however, the minaret was placed over the mihrab, ultimately restricting how high it could be built. This design fault is apparent today, as the minaret and its sweeping vista of the Nfis valley is off-limits due to severe structural damage.
Although the Almohad seat of power eventually moved to Marrakech, Tin Mal remained their spiritual home. The Mehdi's tomb took on the aura of a holy shrine, and the man himself was elevated to saint status, something which he surely wouldn't have liked given his life's directive of worshiping one God.
The mosque was restored in the 1990s after a donation by one of the country's largest private corporations. The original mihrab, minaret, and the majority of internal arches remain intact.
The mosque is still used for midday Friday prayers, but visitors are free to enter any other day (aside from the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, this is the only other mosque in Morocco where non-Muslims are allowed to enter). The mosque's gardien, French-speaking Mohammed Fillali (tel. 0662/725612), lives directly below and is usually on hand to escort you around at any time of the day. Admission is free, but a 20dh tip to Mohammed is appreciated.
Read more: www.frommers.com/destinations/westernhighatlas/3951010029...