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Opened in 1998, and designed by Basil Al Bayati, the Edinburgh Central Mosque is right across the road from Edinburgh University at Potterrow. In a rather nice touch the architecture, while traditional for an Islamic holy structure, also contains nods to Scots Baronial architecture, making a nice statement about two cultures interleaved.
I was coming out of a festival show in the university nearby, and only had the Mr Bendy Legs, the mini-tripod, with me, so I sat it and the camera on a handy bench to bring it up a bit more, and grab this picture as the late evening was fading into night. The adjacent Mosque Kitchen is a highly recommended place to eat in the city (great food and very affordable).
the tents you see cover the stalls of all the vendors awaiting the mosque attendees (this was on Friday)
The Süleymaniye Mosque is the second largest mosque in Istanbul and is one of the dominant buildings in its skyline. It was built on the order of Sultan Süleyman (Süleyman the Magnificent) by the master architect Mimar Sinan (1490 – 1588) between 1550 and 1558.
The interior of the mosque is almost a square, 59 meters in length and 58 meters in width, forming a single vast space. The dome is flanked by semi-domes. In an innovative design, he incorporated the huge north-south buttresses needed to support the central piers into the walls of the building. The interior decoration is subtle, with very restrained use of Iznik tiles. The white marble mihrab and minbar are also simple in design, and woodwork is restrained, with simple designs in ivory and mother of pearl.
The Yeni Mosque, New Mosque or Mosque of the Valide Sultan (Turkish: 'Yeni Cami, Yeni Valide Camii') is an Ottoman imperial mosque located in the Eminönü district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is situated on the Golden Horn at the southern end of the Galata Bridge. It is one of the best-known sights of Istanbul.
Casablanca, Hasan II Mosque, a place of many superlatives. Seeing the size of this place, I consider myself fortunate to have so very little company ion the middle of a December day.
Atlantic Ocean and blue skies offer great views.
The Wilayah Mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia follows the form of Turkish Ottoman mosques, particularly in the overall arrangement of the domes.
A total of twenty outer domes and seventeen inner domes were erected for the Wilayah Mosque in 2000. The hemispherical 31.2m wide main dome with arched windows at its base, has half domes beneath it and a vault joining it to a monumental portal arch facing the courtyard.
The outer shell of the domes is finished in mosaic tiles with decorative motifs designed in the style of Safavid mosques in Isfahan. A crescent moon finial in a gold finish sits on the apex of the main dome.
Hajjah Fatimah Mosque is located at 4001 Beach Road, in the historic Kampong Glam area. Built between 1845 and 1846, the mosque was named after Hajjah Fatimah, a wealthy businesswoman. It is the only mosque in Singapore named after a woman.
St. Petersburg, Russia
A mosque modeled on Samarkand's Gur Emir Mausoleum, built 1910-14. The most northern mosque in the world.
The Blue Mosque, one of the most well known sites in Istanbul, was built in 1609 by Sultan Ahmed I. It's interior tile decorations, some 20,000 blue tiles, are some of the most intricate in the world, and some of the most beautiful, at least from what I've seen. It's six minarets also differentiate it from the Hagia Sofia, which only has four. Istanbul, Turkey.
Sheikh Zayed Mosque is the largest mosque in the country and the eighth largest mosque in the world.
The Laleli Mosque was built by Sultan Mustafa III from 1760–1763, designed in the baroque style by Ottoman imperial architect Mehmet Tahir Ağa
The complex was destroyed by a fire in 1783 shortly after its completion and was immediately rebuilt. A fire in 1911 destroyed the madrasah, and subsequent road construction work destroyed many other auxiliary structures to the mosque.
King Hassan II had promised Casablanca the mausoleum for his father, Mohammed V, who died in 1961. However, he was forced to walk back that promise and keep the mausoleum with the rest of the family’s in Rabat. Instead, he gave Casablanca this magnificent mosque to attract pilgrimage and tourism (it is the only mosque in Morocco open to non-Muslims). The building holds 25,000 worshippers; the open-air plaza can accommodate another 80,000. It was begun in 1986 and completed in 1993, employing 10,000 construction and craft workers. Much of the cost (estimated at up to $700 million) was raised from 12 million donors by public subscription. Major structural remediation of the foundation, which had suffered from exposure to salt water on this wave-washed promontory, was undertaken beginning in 2005. The design is by the French architect Michel Pinseau, with almost all of the materials sourced from within Morocco.
As with other imperial mosques in Istanbul, the Süleymaniye Mosque was designed as a kulliye, or complex with adjacent structures to service both religious and cultural needs. The original complex consisted of the mosque itself, a hospital (darüşşifa), primary school, public baths (hamam), a Caravanserai, four Qur'an schools (medrese), a specialized school for the learning of hadith, a medical college, and a public kitchen (imaret) which served food to the poor. Many of these structures are still in existence, and the former imaret is now a noted restaurant. The former hospital is now a printing factory owned by the Turkish Army.
In the garden behind the main mosque there are two mausoleums (türbe) including the tombs of sultan Suleiman I, his wife Roxelana (Haseki Hürrem), his daughter Mihrimah, his mother Dilaşub Saliha and his sister Asiye. The sultans Suleiman II, Ahmed II and Safiye (died in 1777), the daughter of Mustafa II, are also buried here.
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Hajjah Fatimah Mosque is located at 4001 Beach Road, in the historic Kampong Glam area. Built between 1845 and 1846, the mosque was named after Hajjah Fatimah, a wealthy businesswoman. It is the only mosque in Singapore named after a woman.
Women praying at a mosque in the hills above Dago, near Bandung, Indonesia, on Idul Adha (November 17, 2010).
View over Sur city from Bilad Sur Castle. Sur is a capital city of Ash Sharqiyah Region, northeastern Oman, on the coast of the Gulf of Oman.
back in aleppo, i took this photo of some mosque.
maybe if i got around to writing these descriptions sooner, i would remember which one.