Cairo

The mosque has four minarets of different heights located at the four corners of the open court. The tallest, on the southern corner, is 67 meters in height and is decorated with a zigzag pattern in red and white stone. It is an early example of the use of separate staircases to access the different balconies. Its upper shaft and three balconies, like those of the other minarets, were rebuilt in a less ornate fashion than the original muqarnas work after having collapsed in the 1752 earthquake. The west, north and east minarets are designed, respectively, with spiral (burmali or yivli), fluted and diamond patterns and have single balconies except for the northwest minaret with two balconies.

Edirne, Turkey

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MInaret close up.

Mosque in Little India, Singapore

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Mosque of Ar-Rifai

Cairo, Egypt

Friday Mosque - Isfahan Iran 1997

Inside the main prayer area of the mosque

Forgive me for the quality of photos, especially the group photos, of this day. I wasn't too right in the head, I suppose. Everything seems off center somehow. Sigh.

Xining

It is not often that non muslims are allowed to visit a Grand Mosque, so it was a pleasure to have this photop opportunity. I will post further detais in due course

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Mosque at the southern edge of Bishkek.

Shah Alam Mosque aka The Big Blue Dome :)

the front wall of the Seoul Mosque

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view of mosque ,,decorated for Eid !

Blue Mosque We had a great guide. One entrance had a line about a quarter of a mile long. She took a busload of cruise tourists around to the other side of the Mosque where we were able to enter immediately. The presentations and explanations can be the easy part of being a good guide.

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Sheikh Zayed Mosque.The third biggest mosque in the world .Under construction

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Mosque, Salalah

Intricate plasterwork, Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca, Morocco

This project has taken too long ... and yet it's not finished .... what's going on?

Mihrab.

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Lahore, Pakistan

Mosque near Kashan, Iran

Wooden beams supporting the facade of the Mir Sayyid Mosque, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

There are over 5000 mosques in the UAE

The Mihrab of Tinmal Mosque in the high atlas

I chanced upon some young guys from a Photographic club. They were practicing photographing with bounce boards etc in front of a large Mosque with a model. They kindly let me play, so I brought a couple of 580EX flashes along with shoot through umbrellas mounted on them. These images are the results of that impromptu shoot!

A big thank you to my new found friends on the beach in Malacca!

Malaysia, © Karl von Moller 2011