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Goharshad Mosque (Persian: مسجد گوهرشاد‎‎) is a former free standing mosque in Mashhad of the Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran, which now serves as one of the prayer halls within the Imam Reza shrine complex.
It was built by the order of Empress Goharshad, the wife of Shah Rukh of the Timurid Dynasty in 1418 CE. The architect of the edifice was Ghavameddin Shirazi, who is responsible for so many of Shah Rukh's great buildings, with the architectural and decorative manpower supplied from Shiraz and Isfahan.
The mosque underwent some renovations during the Safavid and Qajar eras. It has four iwans and a courtyard measuring 50 m × 55 m (164 ft × 180 ft), as well as several shabestans.
The double layered dome of the mosque was severely damaged in 1911 in bombings by troops of the Russian Empire.
Digital output obtained directly from the negative.
A mosque alongside the road. There are so many many religious buildings everywhere, mostly Hindu, but also Muslim, Christian and for Buddists.
Most of all colorful buildings in India have a religious purpose.
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.
I believe this mosque was built in the early 20'th century. Even though there are several much older mosques in the city, this one, according to my guidebook written in 2001, had the largest congregation in Prishtina, though that might not be true any more what with all the fancy new Saudi mosques which have gone up in recent years and the restoration of older ones damaged during the 1990's terror.
The Mosque in Jehlum built by Arif-e-Waqt Hazrat Faqeer Professor Bagh Hussain Kamal - Chakwal, Pakistan
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This is a beautiful little mosque about 6 or 7 blocks from my work. This was my last set of shots the morning I took the pictures of the creek and such. I had spent so much time I was hoofing it to get to work on time, but I had to stop long enough to get these pictures. The sky was blue, the sun was shining and the light was perfect.
This is the largest mosque in Africa, it's also a university. We could only get a glimp of it at the entrance because we were not allowed in.
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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This mosque surprisingly appears from the middle of the terraces of Harehills.
The mosque follows the roofline of the terrace it is built into, it uses the original tiles (by the looks of it) to blend in really well.
Country: Turkey
Region: Marmara
City : Istanbul
Place : Sultan Ahmed Mousque
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultanahmet Camii) is a historical mosque in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the capital of the Ottoman Empire (from 1299 to 1923). The mosque is one of several mosques known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior. It was built between 1609 and 1616, during the rule of Ahmed I.
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From "Highlights of China":
The Chengdu Huangcheng Mosque is the most famous Mosque in the southwest of China. As the temple is near a royal palace in history, so it is named the Huangcheng Mosque. The Mosque covers an area of 6,600 square meters, with a construction area of 5,600 square meters. It is the largest Mosque in Sichuan Province and is one of the famous old temple in China.
The architectural style of the temple combined the Arabic style and Ming, Qing Dynasty's architectural style as a whole. The existing constructions include an entrance wall, two gates, an ambulatory, a shower room, a library and a prayer hall, etc. The entrance wall is opposite the main gate. Between the wall and the gate, it is a street. On the top of the main gate is the tablet marked the name of " Huangcheng Mosque". Outside the main gate is the fence. On the top of the second gate is the tablet marked the name of "Kai Tian Gu Jiao" ( it means a old temple with a long history). The second tablet is the relics of Qing Dynasty(1644-1911). The library holds a lot of Islam books with Arabic and Chinese language. The prayer hall is a newly building with grand scale and simplicity. The temple is the center of the Islamic Association in Sichuan Province.
It was a rainy day in Chengdu, which is pretty normal for July, so misty air and bad lighting make this a rather flat picture.
This 360° High Dynamic Range panorama was stitched from 57 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, and touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 18192 × 9096 (165.5 MP; 170.99 MB).
Location: Huangcheng Mosque, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Mosques are the Holy place of Muslims. It refers to a Arabic word Masjid. Muslims prayer five times a day when Adhan is call by muezzin in the Mosque. Mosques present all over the world in a huge amount that the voice of adhan is one which surrounds 24hrs of the day in the world.
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