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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
photo to colored-pencils version looks quite nice :)
Kampong Glam comes from the Malay word kampong, meaning “village,” and gelam, a particular kind of tree that at one time grew abundantly in the area and it is the traditional heart of Singapore’s Muslim community.
Long before the British arrived, Arab traders plied the coastlines of the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia, bringing with them the teachings of Islam. In the early1800s, the British made a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah, then sultan of Singapore, to cede the island to the British East India Trading Company. As part of the treaty, the sultan was offered a stipend and given Kampong Glam as a settlement. Sultan Hussein built his palace, Istana Kampong Glam, and sold off parcels of land for schools, mosques, and farms.
Trade grew in the area, as a wave of tradesmen moved in to serve the large numbers of pilgrims who debarked from here on their journey to Mecca each year. At the heart of the community is the Sultan Mosque, or Masjid Sultan. This was originally built with a grant from the East India Company to the Sultan of Johor.
The Arab District is a small area, bounded by Beach and North Bridge roads to the south and north and spreading a couple of blocks to either side of Arab Street. The area can further be divided up into the neighbourhood of Bugis. The pace of life here is slower than in both Chinatown and Little India and it is good place to meander and enjoy Muslim food at a simple café.
Attractions include the Sultan Mosque on Bussorah Street; the Istana Kampong Glam, the sultan’s Malay-style palace, built in the 1840s; the endearing Hajjah Fatimah Mosque; and the Malabar Muslim Jama-Ath Mosque; and, surprisingly, in an area predominantly Muslim, the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple, one of Singapore’s most popular Chinese temples.
Source: www.destination-asia.com/singapore/districts-attractions/...
The interior of the Cathedral/Mosque is a awe inspiring forest of moorish pillars and associated artwork and architecture punctuated by a Cathedral that was built into the center of it when the Catholics drove the moors from this region. It makes for a very unusual and conflicting mixture of styles.
This is a bracketed three image hdr image using Photomatix Pro ( f8 1/180-1/45-1/15 ISO 4500 15mm ) The colours are quite true to the raw files.
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Satgumbad Mosque located in the Muhammadpur area of Dhaka city, the building exhibits seven domes- three over the prayer chamber and four over the corner towers. Hence it is known as Satgumbad (seven domed) Mosque.The inscription tablet of the mosque is now lost, so its exact date is not known.The mosque has the strongest similarities with some late 17th century mosques of Dhaka such as the Lalbagh Fort Mosque (c 1678-79) and khwaja ambar's mosque (1680). On stylistic grounds it is suggested that the mosque was built sometime around 1680 AD.
Source: banglapedia
First time tried HDR with single RAW shot of 3 different (-2/0/+2) exposures.
This photo was taken on 2010 with my Nikon D40 . I never knew this mosque will have any importance in the history but I guess it will ... I don't want to discuss politics in here, it is just with the all going on in Egypt i thought this photo is appropriate to be uploaded now ... I hope you like it ...
Detroit is considered the Islamic center of America. I'm not sure if there are any, but I have never seen a Mosque in Maine.
The building was quite impressive. Especially at night. Some 35MM scans coming soon!
The Tin Mal Mosque is a mosque located in the High Atlas mountains of North Africa. It was built in 1156 to commemorate the founder of the Almohad dynasty, Mohamed Ibn Tumart. It is one of the two mosques in Morocco open to non-Muslims, the other being the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca. The prototype for the Tin Mal mosque was the Great Mosque of Taza, also built by Abd al-Mu'min. The Koutoubia in Marrakech was in its turn modelled on it.
Interior Jumeirah Mosque. Dubai.
The beautiful Jumeirah Mosque in Dubai is a much-photographed landmark. Built in the Medieval Fatimid tradition, the Jumeirah Mosque has a capacity of 1,200 people.
For all the glitz and glamour of Dubai, there’s still an undercurrent of humility amongst many of its Muslim population, which a visit to Jumeirah Mosque makes apparent. It’s one of the few ways that visitors can sweep aside the veil of Islam and witness the real face of the country’s religion. It’s also the only Dubai mosque to open its doors to non-Muslims.
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mosque on the west of taj.
see few other mosques @ www.flickr.com/search/?q=mosque&w=43109416@N00&s=...
Masjid Negara. It does not follow the conventional Middle Eastern mosque design of domes and arches.
Egypt or Syria
mid 14th Century
Mamluke dynasty (1250-1517)
Mosque lamps were luxury objects, designed to be hung in mosques and mausoleums in Egypt or Mamluk Syria.
Produced from the 12th to the 14th century, they very quickly became items of collection by rich European art lovers such as Auguste and Eugène Dutuit, who bequeathed a mosque lamp with an epigraphic design to the Petit Palais in 1902.
Musée des beaux-arts de ville de Paris
Petit Palais
Paris
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