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The great mosque is the work of several generations, extended as the population grew and successive caliphs added their patronage. Yet throughout all that time they remained faithful to the original vision, and the whole mosque retains an organic unity, broken only by the intrusion of a cathedral in the centre.
The marvellous thing about the mosque is its complete lack of directionality. Yes, there IS a qibla wall and mihrab niche facing Mecca, but there is no real feeling that the entire building is orientated that way, such as you get in a church. So you can face whichever way you like, and let the vistas of almost infinite multiplication take your mind wandering...
Mosque ornament, Turkey (probably Iznik), about 1557. Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
"This dramatic object was made for the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, completed in 1557. Its shape is based on a metal lamp. The upper section bears part of the Light Verse from the Qur'an. The middle section is equipped with suspension handles and large, decorative bosses."
"It is the earliest example of Iznik pottery with under-glaze decoration in red, a difficult colour to produce. The potters were still experimenting when they made the 'lamp.' The red is quite orange and unevenly applied."
The al-Hakim Mosque is a major Islamic religious site in Cairo, Egypt. It is located in "Islamic Cairo", on the east side of Muizz Street, just south of Bab Al-Futuh (the northern gate). It is named after Imam Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (985-1021), the sixth Fatimid caliph,16 th Fatimid/Ismaili Imam and the first to be born in Egypt.
The Mosque was originally built as an enclosure by the Fatimid vizier Gawhar Al-Siqilli (c.928-992), but was incorporated into the extended fortifications built by Badr al-Gamali. It consists of an irregular rectangle with four arcades surrounding the courtyard. An unusual feature is the monumental entrance with its projecting stone porch.
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This is the Imam of the Khair-ul-Manzil Mosque in Delhi, which was built in the middle of the 16th century. he sat down to study the Koran, but when he realized me, he got up, welcomed me and since he could speak some English, we had an interesting conversation.
Not the fanciest mosque I have ever seen but I'm sure it serves these people well. It was actually the nicest structure in the whole area. But that's not really saying a lot.
اين بنا در محله قديمی اصفهان، معروف به باب الدشت، در انتهای بازار رنگرزان واقع شده و به جهت فضای مناسب، تزيينات زيبای کاشی کاری و كتيبه‌های نفيس، از مساجد مهم و معتبر اصفهان محسوب می شود. بنای اين مسجد برطبق كتيبه‌های تاريخی آن، به هزينه محمد داوود، معروف به تقرب‌خان ـ از پزشكان شاه عباس دوم و شاه صفی ـ ساخته شده است. سال شروع ساختمان مسجد، براساس كتيبه سردر خاوری، 1067هـ . ق و سال اتمام آن براساس كتيبه سر در شمالی، 1073هـ . ق است. با توجه به منابع تاريخی و شواهد به جای مانده، اين مسجد در محل مسجدی قديمی از زمان آل بويه معروف به جورجير كه توسط صاحب بن عباد وزير ساخته شده بود، بنا شده است. (البته با توجه به نوشته شاردن، مسجد دوره صفوی در محوطه خالی قبرستان بنا شده و بنابر اين، مسجد جورجير قبلاً از بين رفته بوده است). بنای مسجد حكيم دارای سر در، صحن، ايوان، غرفه‌های دو طبقه، گنبدخانه، شبستان و همچنين کاشی کاری و تزيينات زيبا و كتيبه‌های نفيس است. سردر خاوری مسجد دارای تزيينات کاشی کاری و كتيبه تاريخی است. كتيبه سردر شمالی به خط ثلث سفيد بر زمينه كاشی لاجوردی مورخ 1073هـ. ق است. صحن مسجد وسيع بوده و نماهای آن با کاشی کاری و خطوط بنايی آراسته شده است. در جبهه جنوبی صحن، ايوان جنوبی، گنبدخانه و شبستان‌های طرفين آن واقع است. گنبدخانه مسجد نيز دارای تزيينات کاشی کاری معقلی، كتيبه‌ها و محراب‌هايی می باشد. اين بنا به شماره 223 به ثبت تاريخی رسيده است.
Dongguan halal Abbey is a largest xining, the most complete preservation of ancient buildings, was founded in about 1380 AD.
东关清真大寺是西宁市一座规模最大，保存最为完整的古代建筑，始建于公元1380年左右。
Another Mosque along the Bosporous. I've noticed every dome I've photgraphed is identical in design regardless of the era it was built in..
it's the Islam new year. They'll soon have a ritual inside the newly built mosque of the muslim village, Bai Ai.
I'm forbidden to go further in as a female and non-muslim.
This Pakistani mosque and those amazing clouds bake in the mid-day sun on a back street in the posh Gombe district of Kinshasa
Most of the Batak people in North Sumatra were converted to Christianity in the 19th Century by Dutch missionaries, but they also maintained their traditional beliefs. Today, surrounded by the Indonesian Muslim majority, more are practicing Islam.
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Mosque of Tzami Tou Mourad Reis with a slender white minaret is located in the New Town of Rhodes, surrounded with the small quiet cemetery... This place is not visited..
I have found a side gate and entered.. The cemetry is overgrown with weeds and is in
a state of disrepair. Everywhere was plenty of cats sleeping in the shade of the trees or graves... While I was taking fotos of them an old man has appeared, took my hand..
and invited me to see the interior of the Mosque.. which was quiet unusual...
That was interesting experience.. so quiet, calm place in the city centre..
Rhodes, Greece...
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This is a small mosque in Nicosia, Cyprus. The exact date of it's construction is unknown. The mosque is dedicated to the flag-bearer (Turkish: bayraktar), who fell whilst planting the first Ottoman flag on the walls of Nicosia on the Constanza bastion, on 9 September 1570 during the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus. The mosque has a rectangular plan along a northwestern-southeastern alignment.
The Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: بادشاھی مسجد), or the 'Emperor's Mosque', in Lahore is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world. It is Lahore's most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era.
Capable of accommodating 10,000 worshippers in its main prayer hall and 100,000 in its courtyard and porticoes, it remained the largest mosque in the world from 1673 to 1986 (a period of 313 years), when overtaken in size by the completion of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Today, it remains the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca, the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca and the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.
To appreciate its large size, the four minarets of the Badshahi Mosque are 13.9 ft (4.2 m) taller than those of the Taj Mahal and the main platform of the Taj Mahal can fit inside the 278,784 sq ft (25,899.9 m2) courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque, which is the largest mosque courtyard in the world.
The Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Ţūlūn (Arabic: مسجد أحمد بن طولون) is located in Cairo, Egypt. It is arguably the oldest mosque in the city surviving in its original form, and is the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area.
The mosque was commissioned by Ahmad ibn Ţūlūn, the Abbassid governor of Egypt from 868–884 whose rule was characterized by de facto independence. The historian al-Maqrizi lists the mosque's construction start date as 876 AD[1], and the mosque's original inscription slab identifies the date of completion as 265 AH, or 879 AD.
The mosque was constructed on a small hill called Gebel Yashkur, "The Hill of Thanksgiving." One local legend says that it is here that Noah's Ark came to rest after the Deluge, instead of at Mount Ararat.[2]
The grand ceremonial mosque was intended as the focal point of Ibn Ţūlūn's capital, al-Qatta'i, which served as the center of administration for the Tulunid dynasty. The mosque originally was backed by ibn Ţūlūn's palace, and a door adjacent to the minbar allowed him direct entry to the mosque. Al-Qatta'i was razed in the early 10th century, AD, and the mosque is the only surviving structure. The mosque was constructed in the Samarran style common with Abbassid constructions. The mosque is constructed around a courtyard, with one covered hall on each of the four sides, the largest being on the side of the qibla, or direction to Mecca. The original mosque had its ablution fountain (sabil) in the area between the inner and outer walls. A distinctive sabil with a high domed roof was added in the central courtyard at the end of the thirteenth century by the Sultan Lajīn.
Plan of the MosqueThere is significant controversy over the date of construction of the minaret, which features a helical outer staircase similar to that of the famous minaret in Samarra. Legend has it that ibn Ţūlūn himself was accidentally responsible for the design of the structure: supposedly while sitting with his officials, he absentmindedly wound a piece of parchment around his finger. When someone asked him what he was doing, he responded, embarrassed, that he was designing his minaret. Many of the architectural features, however, point to a later construction, in particular the way in which the minaret does not connect well with the main mosque structure, something that would have been averted had the minaret and mosque been built at the same time. Architectural historian Doris Behrens-Abouseif asserts that Sultan Lajīn, who restored the mosque in 1296, was responsible for the construction of the current minaret.[3]
The mosque has been restored several times. The first known restoration was in 1177 under orders of the Fatimid wazir Badr al-Jamālī, who left a second inscription slab on the mosque, which is noted for containing the Shī'ī version of the shahada, adding the phrase "And Ali is the wali of God" after acknowledging the oneness of God and the prophethood of Muhammad. Sultan Lajīn's restoration of 1296 added several improvements. The mosque was most recently restored by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities in 2004.
During the medieval period, several houses were built up against the outside walls of the mosque. Most were demolished in 1928 by the Committee for the Conservation of Arab Monuments, however, two of the oldest and best-preserved homes were left intact. The "house of the Cretan woman" (Beit al-Kritliyya) and the Beit Amna bint Salim, were originally two separate structures, but a bridge at the third floor level was added at some point, combining them into a single structure. The house, accessible through the outer walls of the mosque, is open to the public as the Gayer-Anderson Museum, named after the British general R.G. 'John' Gayer-Anderson, who lived there until 1942.
Parts of the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me were filmed at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun and in the Gayer-Anderson Museum.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi, Emirados Árabes Unidos - Nikon D700 + Carl Zeiss 25mm f/2.8 ZF + f/5.6 + 1/20s + ISO-400