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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.
From Wikipedia:
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.
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.
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
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.
Jumeirah Mosque is a mosque in Dubai City. It is said that it is the most photographed mosque in all of Dubai. (Wikipedia)
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.
Painted in brown and cream colours, the mosque is a unique blend of both Malaccan style and European classical elements. Its key elements include the entrance gate, the minaret tower, the ablution area, the prayer hall, the mausoleum, a garden and the imam's residence. Next to the mosque are ancillary buildings.
Blue Mosque - Istanbul, Turkey - October 20th, 2011
This photo is available to buy in various physical forms on RedBubble.
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The wooden polish used to build the structure are kept there for future repairs.
De houten stokjes zijn heel decoratief. Eigenlijk zijn ze aangebracht om achteraf gemakkelijk de jaarlijkse herstellingen uit te voeren. Hier spreken we van 'aardestenen' die gemakkelijk afbrokkelen.
De moskee.
Schoentjes af, de handen reinigen en we kunnen binnengaan. De ruimte is heel fris, donker en verdeeld door veel steunpijlers. De vrouwen mogen niet deelnemen aan de diensten binnenin de moskee. Zij wachten buiten de moskee.
Onderweg van Ouagadougou, de hoofdstad, richting zuidwest Bobo-Dioulasso.
alhafiz.net/2010/10/07/burkina-faso-mosque-ouahabou-burki...
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 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.
La grande mosquée - which in fact is not the biggest one in Porto Novo, but one of the most beautiful I've ever seen. It was built after a Brazilian model, a church in Bahia...thus the colours and the shape.
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The Selimiye Mosque (Turkish: Selimiye Camii) is an Ottoman mosque in the city of Edirne, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Selim II and was built by architect Mimar Sinan between 1569 and 1575 It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements of Islamic architecture.
Added to UNESCO World Heritage list in 2011
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Hello
This is a close up shot for the door that appared in my last upload .
I used multiple exposure shots of course to get the right amount of light and shadows.
hope you like it. although I'm no too sure about it =\
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Light Source : sunrise
remote : canon RS-60E3
programs edited with : Lightroom 1.4 - PhotomatixPro3 - Photoshop Cs3
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The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultanahmet Camii) is an historical mosque in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the capital of the Ottoman Empire (from 1453 to 1923). The mosque is popularly known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior.
It was built from 1609 to 1616, during the rule of Ahmed I. Like many other mosques, it also comprises a tomb of the founder, a madrasah and a hospice. While still used as a mosque, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque has also become a popular tourist attraction