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This mosque is located in the Citadel in old Cairo and its prominent site makes it very visible. Designed in Turkish style and built during the 43year rule of Mohammad Ali. It was begun in 1839 and took 18 years to complete. The lower walls are alabaster.
A mosque which I have frequented since 1997. The building in its current shape has only been in existence since 2008.
Arabic script on the wall of a mosque on the Corniche, Muscat, Oman.
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The Qaraw?y?n Mosque is the centre of a university that was founded in ad 859; several of its schools (madrasahs) are grouped around it. The university has been renowned since the European Middle Ages as a centre of Isl?mic culture. When the Muslims were expelled from Spain beginning in the 13th century, many came to Fès and to Qaraw?y?n, bringing knowledge of European and Moorish arts and sciences. By the 14th century there were said to be 8,000 students at the university. It gradually declined and by the 20th century retained only traces of its former greatness. But after Moroccan independence (1956), much was done to modernize the university: a new faculty of law was established, women were admitted for the first time, and the tuition system was reorganized. In 1963 the traditional program of studies—Isl?mic law, theology, and Arabic studies—was divided into three separate faculties, the latter two being relocated at Tétouan and Marrakech.
A mazing in appearance, but too beautiful to be true, The Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque is Brunei’s proudest architectural achievement.
It sits on an artificial lagoon near the Brunei River in Kampong Ayer, which is appropriately enough, known as a “water village.”
At the front of the mosque there is a small decorative pond. Trying to take the mosque in a different perspective. Making the pond a frame for the reflection...
The Qaraw?y?n Mosque is the centre of a university that was founded in ad 859; several of its schools (madrasahs) are grouped around it. The university has been renowned since the European Middle Ages as a centre of Isl?mic culture. When the Muslims were expelled from Spain beginning in the 13th century, many came to Fès and to Qaraw?y?n, bringing knowledge of European and Moorish arts and sciences. By the 14th century there were said to be 8,000 students at the university. It gradually declined and by the 20th century retained only traces of its former greatness. But after Moroccan independence (1956), much was done to modernize the university: a new faculty of law was established, women were admitted for the first time, and the tuition system was reorganized. In 1963 the traditional program of studies—Isl?mic law, theology, and Arabic studies—was divided into three separate faculties, the latter two being relocated at Tétouan and Marrakech.
From Wikipedia:
The Şehzade Mosque (Turkish: Şehzade Camii) is a mosque in the city of Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Suleiman I and was built by architect Mimar Sinan between 1543 and 1548. It was considered by architectural historians as Sinan's first masterpiece of classical Ottoman architecture
Interior of the mosque
Interior of the mosque
The mosque has a square plan, covered by a central dome, flanked by four half-domes. The dome is supported by four piers, and has a diameter of 19 meters and it is 37 meters high. Şehzade complex (Külliye) is situated between Fatih and Bayezid complexes. The Külliye consists of the mosque, the tomb (turbe) of Prince Mehmet (which was built prior to the mosque), two schools (medresa), kitchen for the poor and a caravansarai. The mosque and its courtyard are surrounded by a wall that separates them from the rest of the complex.