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The cascading domes and six slender minarets of the Sultanahmet Mosque (better known as the "Blue Mosque") dominate the skyline of Istanbul.
In the 17th century, Sultan Ahmet I wished to build an Islamic place of worship to rival the Hagia Sophia, and the mosque named for him is the impressive result. The two great architectural achievements stand next to each other in Istanbul's main square, and it is up to visitors to decide which is more impressive.
The Blue Mosque was commissioned by Sultan Ahmet I as a rival to Hagia Sophia and designed by architect Mehmet Aga (Aga's unfortunate predecessor was fired - i.e., executed).
Construction on the mosque began in 1609 and took seven years. Sultan Ahmet died only a year after the completion of his masterpiece, at the age of 27. He is buried just outside the mosque with his wife and three sons.
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
The ivory-coloured Al Noor Mosque in Sharjah, UAE, with its series of cascading domes, is beautiful from the outside. Inside the mosque, the arches and domes combining to great effect.
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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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
No other word than Subhanallah and Alhamdulillah that I could have chance to be at Nabawi Mosque, Madinah, SA. Photo taken about after subuh praying time when the sun also start shining.
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.
Abanotubani, Tbilisi (Georgia, 2013)
Restoration works are being carried out to protect traditional wooden houses in Abanotubani. The mosque, built in 1895, is the only in Tbilisi that survived Lavrenty Beria’s antireligious purges of the 1930s. Shiite and Sunni Muslims pray together here.
Jumeirah Mosque is a mosque in Dubai City. It is said that it is the most photographed mosque in all of Dubai. (Wikipedia)
De Imam moskee, uit het begin van de 17e eeuw, in Isfahan is (volgens de folders) een van de mooiste in de Islamitische wereld.
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.
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
I will keep going to Putrajaya until one day they will turn on all the lights for the mosque and the sky is blue. Until then, I will try my best to get better pictures.
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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Samarkand is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarkand is the capital of the Samarkand Region and a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlements Kimyogarlar, Farhod and Khishrav. With 551,700 inhabitants (2021), it is the third-largest city in Uzbekistan.
There is evidence of human activity in the area of the city dating from the late Paleolithic Era. Though there is no direct evidence of when Samarkand was founded, several theories propose that it was founded between the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Prospering from its location on the Silk Road between China, Persia and Europe, at times Samarkand was one of the largest cities in Central Asia, and was an important city of the empires of Greater Iran. By the time of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, it was the capital of the Sogdian satrapy. The city was conquered by Alexander the Great in 329 BC, when it was known as Markanda, which was rendered in Greek as Μαράκανδα. The city was ruled by a succession of Iranian and Turkic rulers until it was conquered by the Mongols under Genghis Khan in 1220.
The city is noted as a centre of Islamic scholarly study and the birthplace of the Timurid Renaissance. In the 14th century, Timur made it the capital of his empire and the site of his mausoleum, the Gur-e Amir. The Bibi-Khanym Mosque, rebuilt during the Soviet era, remains one of the city's most notable landmarks. Samarkand's Registan square was the city's ancient centre and is bounded by three monumental religious buildings. The city has carefully preserved the traditions of ancient crafts: embroidery, goldwork, silk weaving, copper engraving, ceramics, wood carving, and wood painting. In 2001, UNESCO added the city to its World Heritage List as Samarkand – Crossroads of Cultures.
Modern Samarkand is divided into two parts: the old city, which includes historical monuments, shops, and old private houses; and the new city, which was developed during the days of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union and includes administrative buildings along with cultural centres and educational institutions. On 15 and 16 September 2022, the city hosted the 2022 SCO summit.
Samarkand has a multicultural and plurilingual history that was significantly modified by the process of national delimitation in Central Asia. Many inhabitants of the city are native or bilingual speakers of the Tajik language, whereas Uzbek is the official language and Russian is also widely used in the public sphere, as per Uzbekistan's language policy.