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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
The courtyard is known today as the "Courtyard of the Orange Trees" (Spanish: "Patio de los Naranjos"). In the background you can see the Mosque (Spanish: Mezquita).
Abd ar-Rahman I had the first part of the mosque built 785-786. The short period of construction was probably aided by the reuse of existing Roman and Visigothic materials.
A part of the mosque was torn down when a cathedral was built in the 16th century.
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Unesco World Heritage: "Historic Centre of Cordoba", ref 313bis.
Córdoba, Community of Andalusia, Spain.
The Mosque of Amr ibn al-As (Arabic: جامع عمرو بن العاص), also called the Mosque of Amr, was originally built in 642 AD, as the center of the newly founded capital of Egypt, Fustat. The original structure was the first mosque ever built in Egypt, and by extension, the first mosque on the continent of Africa
جامع عمرو بن العاص هو أول مسجد بني في مصر وإفريقيا كلها. بني في مدينة الفسطاط التي أسسها المسلمون في مصر بعد فتحها. كان يسمى أيضا بمسجد الفتح والمسجد العتيق وتاج الجوامع. يقع جامع عمرو بن العاص شرق النيل عند خط طول 31 13 59 شرق، وعند خط عرض 30 0 37 شمال
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The Zeynep Sultan Mosque (in Turkish Zeynep Sultan Camii) is a mosque built in 1769 by Ayazma Mosque's architect Mehmet Tahir Ağa for Ahmed III's daughter Zeynep Asıme Sultan. It evokes Byzantine churches because of its architectural style and materials that were used in its construction.
The mosque is on Alemdar Caddesi (Street) in Istanbul, across the street from Gülhane Park and viewable from the tram that circulates the city. In the back side of the mosque there is a building which was once used as mektep[1] and now being used as primary school. The part once used as sebil[2] is now closed. In front of the mosque there is a fountain which was actually part of Abd-al-Hamid I's külliye[3]. Fountain was carried here in 1920s when 4. Vakıf Han's construction in Eminönü. Osmanlı Araştırmaları Vakfı is above the Mosque.
Ottoman military hero Alemdar Mustafa Pasha's grave is in hazîre[4] of the mosque and due to road construction Zeynep Sultan's corpse in the cellar is waiting for the time of her new tomb's construction. The grave of Melek Mehmet Pasha, who was Selim III's Grand Vizier and Zeynep Sultan's husband, is also in the hazîre of the mosque.
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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.
uit:
www.voiceinthedesert.org.uk/keith/archives/2007/11/bani.html
Governor Phil Murphy attends Friday prayer service at a Mosque in New Brunswick with Department of Health Commissioner Elhanal on Friday, March 22, 2019. Edwin J. Torres/Governor's Office.
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.
uit:
www.voiceinthedesert.org.uk/keith/archives/2007/11/bani.html
Shots taken from the taxi window as we travelled north-east from the city of Zagazig towards our next destination, San el Hagar.
About 10% of the population of Bulgaria are muslim, a relic of hundreds of years of domination by the Ottoman Empire. The moslems tend to be concentrated in certain areas. One such area is here in the mountains to the south of the country. A series of villages visible from the narrow-gauge train between Septemvri and Dobriniste are dominated by minarets rather than church towers or steeples. A strange sight in Europe! In Bulgaria there doesn't seem to be any friction between the communities - unlike in other parts of the Balkans.
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.
uit:
www.voiceinthedesert.org.uk/keith/archives/2007/11/bani.html
Mayor Eric Adams delivers remarks at a ribbon cutting for Masjid Abu Huraira’s newly constructed mosque in Queens on Saturday March 18, 2023. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
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The Selimiye Mosque (Turkish: Selimiye Camii) is a mosque in the city of Edirne, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Selim II and was built by architect Mimar Sinan between 1568 and 1574. It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements of Islamic architecture.
This grand mosque stands at the center of a külliye (complex of a hospital, school, library and/or baths around a mosque) which comprises a medrese (Islamic academy teaches both Islamic and Scientific lessons), a dar-ül hadis (Al-Hadith school), a timekeeper's room and an arasta (row of shops). It also contains a Bayezid II Külliye Health Museum, now a museum. In this mosque Sinan employed an octagonal supporting system that is created through eight pillars incised in a square shell of walls. The four semi domes at the corners of the square behind the arches that spring from the pillars, are intermediary sections between the huge encompassing dome (31.25m diameter with spherical profile) and the walls.
While conventional mosques were limited by a segmented interior, Sinan's effort at Edirne was a structure that made it possible to see the mihrab from any location within the mosque. Surrounded by four tall minarets in, the Mosque of Selim II has a grand dome atop it. Around the rest of the mosque were many additions: libraries, schools, hospices, baths, soup kitchens for the poor, markets, hospitals, and a cemetery. These annexes were aligned axially and grouped, if possible. In front of the mosque sits a rectangular court with an area equal to that of the mosque. The innovation however, comes not in the size of the building, but from the organization of its interior. The mihrab is pushed back into an apse-like alcove with a space with enough depth to allow for window illumination from three sides. This has the effect of making the tile panels of its lower walls sparkle with natural light. The amalgamation of the main hall forms a fused octagon with the dome-covered square. Formed by eight massive dome supports, the octagon, is pierced by four half dome covered corners of the square. The beauty resulting from the conformity of geometric shapes engulfed in each other was the culmination of Sinan's life long search for a unified interior space.
Sheikh Zayed Mosque is the largest mosque in the country and the eighth largest mosque in the world.
jame' Saeed bin taimoor in alkhuwair\ sultanate of Oman
well this shot I took looong time ago before cyclone Gonu starts and I found it while I was searching for something accidentally ... you might probably notice that the angle of the shot needs a lil modification ... that's because I took the shot from the car and it was moving ... so I had no chance really to retake the shot from a better angle ... anywayz I wanted to post this shot coz I loved the colors and it's pretty rare here to have this weather and the clouds very close to the mountains ..
Located in Khaplu, Chaqchan Mosque is one of the earliest mosques in Baltistan (1504 AD), attributed to Syed Ali Hamdani (1384-1314) – a prominent sufi saint, scholar an poet. The mosque also has a Khanquah and a sufi seminary of Kubrai order attached to it. Some portion of the mosque has been restored by the local community. It is well preserved in its original shape and is the centre of religious activity in Khaplu city
The prinicpal mosque in the old town / bazaar area of Kusadasi town centre (friday prayers just commencing so I didn't go inside), one of the few older buildings remaining in this heavily built up resort, whose current size is largely the result of growth in the last thirty years.
Sehzade Mosque was, for me, the nicest mosque in Istanbul, especially from a photographic point of view. Hagia Sophia and Sultan Ahmet Mosque are the two most-famous mosques in town and, as such, almost always packed with visitors. Plenty of others (Suleymaniye Mosque, for example) are quite beautiful and worth a visit, but also can be crowded. Beyazit Mosque was very nice, and not crowded at all. Lastly (for this trip), Sehzade Mosque was also practically empty -- fewer than 10 people besides me -- and with its symmetry, it's photographically delightful.
The history of this mosque, though, is somewhat sad. Like many other mosques in Istanbul, it's from the 16th century. In particular, this one was built from 1543-48. What happened in 1543 to create this mosque?
The sultan at the time, Suleyman the Magnificent, had a favorite son named Sehzade Mehmed. This wasn't his oldest son, but Sehzade was his oldest son by his legal wife, which put him in line to be the next sultan.
Sehzade was born in 1521. He was a warrior, and fought as far away as Hungary. In late 1543, while returning from a successful military campaign in Hungary, Sehzade died unexpectedly (consensus opinion is that he died of smallpox).
A distraught Suleyman had this mosque built to honor his son, and employed imperial architect Mimar Sinan to design and build it.
The general plan is similar to nearby Beyazit Mosque in that there's a courtyard/forecourt that is enclosed and roughly the same size as the mosque itself. This mosque, too, has a large central dome, but it's flanked by four half domes. The half domes are what enhance the symmetry and photographic lines on the interior.
There are five tombs behind this mosque (that I did not have a chance to see), one of which contains the grave of Sehzade Mehmed.
This mosque is about halfway between Fatih Mosque and Beyazit Mosque, and Suleymane Mosque is also a short walk away, but not on the same line.
Though I've obviously seen this mosque, I would probably make a point to see it again on a return visit to Istanbul. It's beautiful.