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I described Gibraltar to be a mix of Tenerife (because of the heat, the sea and beaches everywhere), Hamburg harbour (because of the large ships stopping here for fuel or simply moving out of or into the Atlantic Ocean), downtown Naples (because of all the narrow roads filled with scooters), Münster airport (see previous pictures) and an Italian mountain pass (because all of those rough unlit tunnels).
In fact, the whole rock is full of holes, like Swiss cheese. The military built tunnels and caverns to fortify the peninsula against sieges and to place artillery and flak all over the place, to be able to block the strait. There was even the plan of leaving a handful of soldiers behind as observers in WWII, immured into a cavern with food to last for years, in case the Germans capture Gibraltar (search for "Operation Tracer" if you want to find out more).
Some of the fortifications can be seen in the centre and the middle right (Buffadero Battery), where the radar sits. And on the top of the rock, one can make out a small boxy shape resembling the turret of O'Hara's Battery, featuring a 9.2 inch (23 cm) artillery gun.
In the foreground is the Mosque of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, inaugurated in 1997, set at Europa Point, the southernmost point of Gibraltar.
Ummayad Mosque, also known as the Grand Mosque of Damascus, is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world.
Damascus, Syria
Agust 2010
We met these three men inside the main mosque in Lhasa. All three are orginally from Qinghai, China but have lived in Lhasa for 50 years.
The Wazir Khan Mosque (Punjabi/Urdu: مسجد وزیر خان Masjid Wazīr Khān) in Lahore, Pakistan, is famous for its extensive faience tile work. It has been described as 'a mole on the cheek of Lahore'. It was built in seven years, starting around 1634–1635 AD, during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan. It was built by Hakim Shaikh Ilm-ud-din Ansari, a native of Chiniot, who rose to be the court physician to Shah Jahan and a governor of Lahore. He was commonly known as Wazir Khan, a popular title bestowed upon him (the word Wazir means 'minister' in Urdu and Persian). The mosque is inside the Inner City and is easiest accessed from Delhi Gate. The mosque contains some of the finest examples of Qashani tile work from the Mughal period.
Copyright © Sohaib Tahir
Nakhoda Mosque, situated in Jacquaria Street, near the junction of Chitpore Road and Mahatma Gandhi Road.
Nakhoda Mosque of Kolkata is the largest mosque within the city. Its foundation was laid by Abdar Rahim Osman, a resident of Cutch, in the year 1926. Nakhoda mosque is constructed on the lines of Akbar's tomb in Sikandra. Read to know more about the Nakhoda masjid of Kolkata, India.
On all days, except for Sunday, you can buy attar (a perfume made from essential oils and fragrance of flowers) from outside the mosque.
This is some reflective pool thing in Granada Spain. I think it's in a Mosque, lol, I didn't take it.
Nakhoda Mosque, situated in Jacquaria Street, near the junction of Chitpore Road and Mahatma Gandhi Road.
Nakhoda Mosque of Kolkata is the largest mosque within the city. Its foundation was laid by Abdar Rahim Osman, a resident of Cutch, in the year 1926. Nakhoda mosque is constructed on the lines of Akbar's tomb in Sikandra. Read to know more about the Nakhoda masjid of Kolkata, India.
On all days, except for Sunday, you can buy attar (a perfume made from essential oils and fragrance of flowers) from outside the mosque.
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
Sehzade Mosque was, for me, the nicest mosque in Istanbul, especially from a photographic point of view. Hagia Sophia and Sultan Ahmet Mosque are the two most-famous mosques in town and, as such, almost always packed with visitors. Plenty of others (Suleymaniye Mosque, for example) are quite beautiful and worth a visit, but also can be crowded. Beyazit Mosque was very nice, and not crowded at all. Lastly (for this trip), Sehzade Mosque was also practically empty -- fewer than 10 people besides me -- and with its symmetry, it's photographically delightful.
The history of this mosque, though, is somewhat sad. Like many other mosques in Istanbul, it's from the 16th century. In particular, this one was built from 1543-48. What happened in 1543 to create this mosque?
The sultan at the time, Suleyman the Magnificent, had a favorite son named Sehzade Mehmed. This wasn't his oldest son, but Sehzade was his oldest son by his legal wife, which put him in line to be the next sultan.
Sehzade was born in 1521. He was a warrior, and fought as far away as Hungary. In late 1543, while returning from a successful military campaign in Hungary, Sehzade died unexpectedly (consensus opinion is that he died of smallpox).
A distraught Suleyman had this mosque built to honor his son, and employed imperial architect Mimar Sinan to design and build it.
The general plan is similar to nearby Beyazit Mosque in that there's a courtyard/forecourt that is enclosed and roughly the same size as the mosque itself. This mosque, too, has a large central dome, but it's flanked by four half domes. The half domes are what enhance the symmetry and photographic lines on the interior.
There are five tombs behind this mosque (that I did not have a chance to see), one of which contains the grave of Sehzade Mehmed.
This mosque is about halfway between Fatih Mosque and Beyazit Mosque, and Suleymane Mosque is also a short walk away, but not on the same line.
Though I've obviously seen this mosque, I would probably make a point to see it again on a return visit to Istanbul. It's beautiful.
For my World Religions class, I will visit a mosque for the next few months. This is one of the interior rooms. I'm still rough on the vocabulary.
Title from Frank Sinatra's song "All the Way." Taken February 5, 2006.
Meeqat mosque at the doorstep of Madinah Munawara, where pilgrims wear ahram heading towards Makkah.
Al-Azhar Mosque (Arabic: الجامع الأزهر, romanized: al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit. 'The Resplendent Congregational Mosque'), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic Islamic core of the city. Commissioned by Jawhar al-Siqilli shortly after Cairo was established as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970, it was the first mosque established in a city that eventually earned the nickname "the City of a Thousand Minarets".[b] Its name is usually thought to derive from az-Zahrāʾ (meaning "the shining one"), a title given to Fatimah, the daughter of Muhammad.
More information about mosques in Phuket on my Phuket blog @ www.jamiesphuketblog.com/2016/07/mosques-in-phuket.html.
Artistic Screen Halftone of Mosque Created by Pixeology Artistic Halftone software( a Photoshop plug-in).
You can get the software at www.pixeology.com/ArtisticHalftone/features.html