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The Floating Mosque or Tengku Tengah Zaharah is the first real floating mosque in Malaysia. It is situated in Kuala Ibai Lagoon near the estuary of Kuala Ibai River, 4 km from Kuala Terengganu Town. Construction began in 1993 and finished in 1995. The mosque was officially opened in July 1995 by Almarhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah, the late Sultan of Terengganu. The mosque combines modern and Moorish architecture; incorporating the use of marble, ceramics, mosaic works and bomanite paving. The white structure of the mosque covers an area of roughly 5 acres and can accommodate up to 2000 attendees at a time.
Preparing for prayer
There are approximately 350 mosques in Fez’s medina, spread among the different districts.
This is the Al-Qarawiyin Mosque, arguably the world's oldest university. And surprisingly, founded by a woman, Fatima Fihriyya!
For over 1200 years, the Al-Qarawiyin Mosque (or al-Karaouine) has been one of the leading spiritual and educational centers of the Muslim World.
With a history dating back to the 9th century, this mosque and university have been the selected congregation space for various Muslim saints and scholars throughout the centuries.
Although some mosques are open to tourists, I am not sure if one can enter any Mosque in Morocco. We respectively stayed outside.
The Grand Mosque was constructed between 1996 and 2007.[2] It was designed by Syrian architect Yousef Abdelky.[3] The building complex measures approximately 290 by 420 m (950 by 1,380 ft), covering an area of more than 12 hectares (30 acres), excluding exterior landscaping and vehicle parking.
Cordoue ,harmonie réussie entre les peuples musulmans juifs et catholiques qui marquèrent la cité d une richesse architecturale incomparable ,cette superbe mosquée est sans conteste l emblème de cette splendeur passée
The Fatih Mosque (Durres, Albania) built in 1503
A mosque (Arabic:مسجد) is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word entered English from a French word which probably derived from Italian moschea, a variant of Italian moscheta, from either Armenian mzkiṭ or Greek μασγίδιον, from Arabic masjid, meaning "place of worship" or "prostration in prayer", from the Arabic sajada, meaning "to bow down in prayer" or "worship", probably ultimately of Aramaic origin.
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The Blue Mosque is an 18th Century Shi'a mosque in Yerevan, Armenia. It was commissioned by Huseyn Ali Khan, the khan of the Iranian Erivan Khanate. It is one of the oldest extant structures in central Yerevan and the most significant structure from the city's Iranian period. It is today the only active mosque in Armenia.
The mosque was secularized by the Soviets in the 1920s. Initially a "creative space for Armenian artists, writers, poets, and intelligentsia, facilitating the production of a new cultural and aesthetic order for socialist Armenia", by the 1930s first the Anti-Religious Museum and subsequently the Museum of Antifascism were housed at the mosque. From 1936 until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the mosque housed the Museum of Natural Sciences, which included a planetarium inside the main prayer hall and the Yerevan History Museum.
In the late 1980s, during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the mosque did not sustain any damages because it was considered to be Persian, not Azeri. Following Armenia's independence, the building was renovated with the support from the Iranian government and again started operating as a mosque. The restoration has been described as "structurally necessary but aesthetically ambiguous." A second bout of reconstruction was completed as recently as 2011.
Since restoration, it has become a religious and cultural center for the Iranians residing in Armenia and Iranian tourists visiting Armenia. The Iranian cultural center inside the mosque complex attracts young Armenians seeking to learn Persian.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
The Blue Mosque in Istanbul, photographed on a long weekend there a few years ago.
Sad times in Istanbul today ..
La mosquée Putra est la mosquée centrale de Putrajaya, en Malaisie. Construite de 1997 à 1999, elle est située à côté du lac Putrajaya et du Perdana Putra.
Badshahi mosque (Imperial) Lahore completed by Mughal Emperor Aurangzen in 1673,fifth largest mosque in world.Remained largest mosque in the world from 1673-1986 for period of 313 years