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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.
This mosque was the only one in Mostar to not lose a minaret during the Bosnian War. That's because the shell aimed for the mosque was blocked by a huge tree.
ubuddiyah mosque..kuala kangsar, perak, Malaysia....one of the most beautiful mosque in this country
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The mosque that is just to the west of the Taj Mahal. There is a mirror image of this mosque to the East of the Taj Mahal. This second building faces the wrong way to be used as a mosque. It is there soley to preserve the symmetry.
Agra, India, February 2006
Tenuous Link: Christian --> Muslim
My favourite mosque in Cairo on a very sandy day. The cool interior inside the arches is a great place to sit and just 'be'.
Netherlands, Rotterdam, the (currently unfinished) Essalam mosque at the Colosseumweg, Seen from the Valkenoordseviaduct. The mosque is a design by Joris Molenaar and Wilfried van Winden.
Çarshia Mosque - The ‘market mosque’ is Pristina’s oldest building, constructed in the 15th century by Turkish Sultan Bajazit to commemorate the 1389 victory. Now no longer part of the old bazaar complex and no longer in posession of a mausoleum, the one-room mosque is marooned in front of the Kosovo Museum.
Muslims are the most populous religious group in Kosova.
Prishtina Kosova May 2010
La Grande Mosquée du Sultan Qaboos, située à l'Ouest de Mascate, près de Bawshar, est la principale mosquée d'Oman. Financée et commandée par le sultan Qabus ibn Said, elle a été commencée en 1995 et inaugurée le 4 mai 20011. Elle est particulièrement connue pour avoir le plus grand tapis fait main d'une seule pièce (70 x 60 mètres) et le plus grand chandelier du monde, serti d'or 24 carats.
The streets of Alexandria in Egypt. Had to take these photos through a bus window as we were travelling. It was that or no photo at all. I was amazed at the sites of the people and the streets.
Selimiye Mosque (Greek: Τέμενος Σελιμιγιέ Témenos Selimigié; Turkish: Selimiye Camii), historically known as Cathedral of St Sophia, is a former Roman Catholic cathedral converted into a mosque, located in North Nicosia. It is the main mosque of the city. The Selimiye Mosque is housed in the largest and oldest surviving Gothic church in Cyprus (interior dimensions: 66 x 21 m) possibly constructed on the site of an earlier Byzantine church.
On 13 August 1954, the Mufti of Cyprus officially renamed the mosque "Selimiye Mosque", in honour of the Ottoman sultan Selim II, who headed the empire during the conquest of Cyprus.
In total, the mosque has a capacity to hold 2500 worshippers with 1750m² available for worship. It is the largest surviving historical building in Nicosia, and according to sources, it "may have been the largest church built in the Eastern Mediterranean in the millennium between the rise of Islam and the late Ottoman period". It was the coronation church for the Lusignan kings of Cyprus.
Süleymaniye Mosque was built on one of the seven beautiful hills of Istanbul for Kanuni Sultan Süleyman (the magnificent) by Mimar (the architect) Sinan in 1557. It was built in seven years (1550- 1557). Within its building complex are found medreses, a hospital, a hospice, a Turkish bath etc.
The magnificent Süleymaniye that is considered the greatest mosque of Istanbul was built with its complex on an area nearly 63.000 sqm. The building is conspicuous for its simple construction, acoustics, colorful stained glass windows, very precious granite columns, soot room, şadırvan (water- tank with a fountain), four minarets and ten şerefe (minaret balcony). Its inside area is 3.422 m2.
The diameter of its dome is 27.25 m. and the height of the dome is 48.5 m.
The building cost of the mosque and its complex was 59,760,180 akçes (700,000 gold dukas) and 3523 craftsmen worked on its construction. Its corner stone was set by Şeyhülislam Ebussuud Efendi and its door was opened to pray by Mimar Sinan.
The was a wakf (a fund) that supported the mosque. It had 271 properties that included 2 islands and 217 villages. The wages of 275 personnel of the mosque and 311 personnel of the other buildings in the complex were paid by that wakf.
The magnificent temple was damaged from a fire in 1660 and then it was restored. In the reign of Sultan Abdülmecid (1839-1860) all columns were covered with cement and oil paint. In 1956, the paints were scraped off and the minarets, the dome and the vaults were restored.