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Photos taken during Ramadan in Yemen.
The gigantic Saleh Mosque, built in 2008 by Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former dictator that ruled Yemen for 23 years from 1990 to 2012. The mosque has a capacity of 44,000 people and cost nearly US$60 million to construct. Many criticised the president for spending that money on building the mosque when the country was still facing a serious socio-economic crisis.
A few incidents happened both during and after it's construction; the minarets collapsed multiple times, resulting in some deaths, and the president himself was badly injured by a bombing at the mosque in June 2011 (with his badly burnt and damaged trousers still on display in the mosque.
Sana'a, Yemen.
the peaks on the front of the mosque are a stylized hand, depicting (in a non-representational muslim way) 4 fingers and a thumb. i had a really hard time getting a good photo of this because the village was so small with little room between buildings to give me a clear shot. you'll just have to take from granted that it looked really cool in real life
From the top of my hotel parking, evening view is amazing. There is a mosque like every 1 km. And that makes devine and beautiful urban scape.
Nearby we found our favourite mosque, Süleymaniye. It is surrounded by lovely gardens. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCleymaniye_Mosque
At one stage I came out into this area and an Egyptian girl was at the top of the steps, with her bloke taking photos.
Bani is a small town on the way from Ouagadougou to Gorom-Gorom. It looks interesting, and has an interesting story. A series of seven fascinating mud-brick mosques are scattered around the town, several on hill tops, standing out against the sky as you approach. I was told the mosques are laid out in the same pattern as in Mecca, though I have not been able to confirm this.
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www.voiceinthedesert.org.uk/keith/archives/2007/11/bani.html
La mosquée Koutoubia, ou mosquée des libraires, fut débutée sous la dynastie berbère des Almoravides en 1120, mais fut profondément remaniée à partir de 1162 sous l'émir Almohade Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, et devint l'un des édifices les plus caractéristiques de ce style. Son nom vient du fait qu'elle se situait dans le souk des marchands de manuscrits.
La mosquée des libraires s'organise sur un plan en T. Cette tradition existe depuis la construction de la mosquée de Kairouan au ixe siècle, et se retrouve également en Espagne. Il s'agit en fait d'un plan arabe hypostyle, c’est-à-dire comportant une grande cour entourée d'un portique et une salle de prière à colonnes. Les nefs sont perpendiculaires au mur de qibla, celle du centre étant plus large ; et la travée qui longe le mur qibli est également magnifiée, ce qui forme un T, d'où le nom. Le mihrab est traité comme une niche très profonde, et le minaret, haut de 69 m, est de section carrée, selon la tradition de l'occident musulman.
Ses 17 nefs, soutenues par de nombreux piliers blancs, abritent l'une des plus vastes salles de prière de l'Occident musulman (90 x 60 m) pouvant accueillir jusqu'à vingt mille fidèles. Le bâtiment a été restauré dans l'esprit du monument original en 1990, sous l'autorité du ministère de la Culture marocain.
- Traitement photo (normal et traitement noir et blanc). Pas de photos en HDR (High dynamic range) cette fois-ci.
New Mosque, Cambridge, 1 May 2019
This was my first visit to the new Cambridge Mosque which opened in April 2019.
Construction started in late 2016 and the builders are still finishing off various bits.
It is a fascinating building.
The prayer hall has the most amazing timber work as a “grove of trees” in the Garden of Paradise.
A rather erudite article says:
"Throughout the building the trees are realised as timber piers on an 8.1m grid that form the building’s defining visual, architectural and structural feature. Each pier comprises a number of timber columns that begin as perpendicular shafts before separating into individual ribs that open outwards like the branches of a tree. The branches then form an intricate ribbed vault across the ceiling before clustering downwards once again into adjacent piers to repeat the process over and over again. The highly complex geometry of the piers and ceiling is based on an intricate Islamic-inspired pattern... Yet at the same time the timber columns have an historic affinity with the fan vaults and lierne vaulting so synonymous with gothic religious architecture as in King’s College Chapel."
See www.building.co.uk/buildings/projects-cambridge-mosque/50...
I have got to return as there is so much to to appreciate that you miss things.
哈桑二世清真寺 Hassan II Mosque
The Hassan II Mosque is a mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. It is the largest functioning mosque in Africa and is the 14th largest in the world.
哈桑二世清真寺位於卡薩布蘭卡（達爾貝達）的大西洋海岸上，其中三分之一的面積建在海上，於1993年建成。因系前摩洛哥國王哈桑二世發起並捐資籌建，故名。它可以容納10.5萬人同時禮拜，是世界第14大、非洲第一大清真寺。它的宣禮塔高達200米，是世界第二高的宣禮塔。
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Great Mosque (Masjid Raya), Medan, North Sumatera.
Great Mosque in Medan - Indonesia This Great mosque was one of the Sultan Deli legacies in North Sumatra other than the Maimoon Palace. This mosque was still utilized by the Muslim community to pray every day. Some of the building materials for this mosque decoration were made in Italy. Foreign tourists visit this mosque from various countries all over the World. This Great mosque is the most beautiful and biggest mosque in North Sumatra. Sultan Makmun Al Rasyid built this mosque in 1906. This Great mosque is located only 200 m from Maimoon Palace.
A few months ago I got a Nikon ES-1 slide copying adapter, a 62-52mm step-down ring, and a 20mm extension tube. I got them all separate because I didn't know they would all be necessary. I finally got them all together, with our slides, last night. I pointed it to my Lowel Ego light (against which I white palanced) and shot some of these miscellaneous slides we have. I liked this one. It looks like it was printed on Agfachrome slide stock but that's all I know.
The Suleymaniye Mosque or the Mosque of Suleiman is a mosque originally built after the Ottoman conquest of Rhodes in 1522 and reconstructed in 1808. It was named by the Sultan Suleiman to commemorate his conquest of Rhodes.
This mosque was the first mosque in the town of Rhodes, built soon after Ottomans besieged it and captured it in 1522. In 1808 the current building of mosque was built trough the reconstruction of this first mosque. Its plaster is rose-pink. The most of the mosque was reconstructed using materials of the buildings which existed at the same place in the earlier period. The pillars of the outer arcade belonged to the Christian church.
From left to right: Maddie Brady, Jo Ramirez, Camilla Dely, Anna Bullard, and Maria Russo posing in front of the Grand Mosque.
Ablution fountain, Sultan Hassan mosque, Cairo
I was in Cairo the make the Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, film.
Mosque is dedicated to King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, who paid for the construction of the mosque, as a gift to the new Islamic republic of Pakistan.
In one of our classes in London, we studied the Islamic faith. We learned a significant amount of information in that class, and we learned even more when we visited a Turkish mosque in London. The experience, for the women especially, was interesting. Our shoes had to be taken off immediately upon entering the mosque and women had to wear a head covering. The women were separated from the men. We looked down on them during the service. It was a different lifestyle that many of us hadn't known, and we learned a lot about Muslim faith.
The Süleymaniye Mosque was undergoing trestoration, so I couldonly see a small portion. I would like to come back here again, when the restoration is complete.
It was built on the order of Sultan Suleiman I (Suleiman the Magnificent) and was constructed by the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan. The construction work began in 1550 and the mosque was finished in 1557.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Süleymaniye_Mosque
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I've just finished another article about Bukhara on my blog, this time just about some mosques and medressas. So here we go for another never previously uploaded picture of Bukhara.
Pour les francophones, c'est ici que ça se passe : www.voyage-asie-centrale.net/ouzbekistan/mosquees-medersa...
Composite color photograph (from glass plate images exposed with different filters) from the Library of Congress taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii c1910. This is of patterned tile on a mosque.
Masjid Negara. It does not follow the conventional Middle Eastern mosque design of domes and arches.
The Badshahi 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. It is the second largest mosque in Pakistan, able to accomodate up to 55,000 people.
More from my Pakistan Travel Blog.
The Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is the largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the sixth largest mosque in the world. It was the largest mosque in the world from 1986 to 1993 when overtaken in size by the completion of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. Subsequent expansions of the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca and the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, Saudi Arabia during the 1990s relegated Faisal Mosque to fourth place in terms of size.
Faisal Mosque is conceived as the National Mosque of Pakistan. It has a covered area of 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft)[citation needed] and has a capacity to accommodate approximately 300,000 worshippers (100,000 in its main prayer hall, courtyard and porticoes and another 200,000 in its adjoining grounds). Although its covered main prayer hall is smaller than that of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca (the world's third largest mosque), Faisal Mosque has the third largest capacity of accommodating worshippers in its adjoining grounds after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca, the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina.[1]. Each of the Mosque's four minarets are 80 m (260 ft) high (the tallest minarets in South Asia) and measure 10 x 10 m in circumference.