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The Mihrimah Sultan Mosque is an Ottoman mosque located in the Edirnekapı neighborhood near the Byzantine land walls of Istanbul, Turkey. Located on the peak of the Sixth Hill near the highest point of the city, the mosque is a prominent landmark in Istanbul.
The Mihrimah Sultan Mosque was designed by Mimar Sinan ("Sinan the Architect") for the favorite daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent, Princess Mihrimah. Its building took place from 1562 to 1565. The complex has been severely damaged by earthquakes several times (including 1719, 1766, 1814 and 1894), and although efforts were made to restore the mosque, its attendant buildings received less attention. The dome was further damaged during 1999 İzmit earthquake, and required restoration, along with the upper half of the minaret.
The interior is a cube under a dome 20 m in diameter and 37 m high. On the north and south sides, triple arcades supported by granite columns open onto side aisles with galleries above, each with three domed bays. A vast amount of surface area is covered by windows, making the mosque one of the brightest lit of any of Sinan's works. Some of the windows contain stained glass.The interior stencil decorations are all modern. However, the mimbar in carved white marble is from the original construction.
As built, the Mihrimah Sultan Mosque had a külliye which included (besides madrasah) a double hamman, türbe and a low row of shops under the terrace upon which the mosque was built, whose rents were intended to financially support the mosque complex.
Kapitan Keling Mosque is a mosque built in the 19th century by Indian Muslim traders in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. It is situated on the corner of Lebuh Buckingham (Buckingham Street) and Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling (Masjid Kapitan Keling Road).
Hopefully will get to go back for some more pics, but this was taken just as people were coming out of prayers during Ramadan.
Old mosque in between the centres of new and old Plovdiv.
The area with the unbrellas forms a thriving art market.
Avenue Imam Mouslim, Tanger-medina, Morocco
Une mosquée est un lieu de culte où se rassemblent les musulmans pour les prières communes. L’ensemble architectural est le plus souvent entouré d’une ou plusieurs tours, ou minarets, dont le nombre n'est pas limité. Le toit est souvent en forme de dôme. C’est du haut d’un des minarets que le muezzin (mouadh-dhan) appelle à la prière au cours de l’adhan. Une mosquée est plus qu’un lieu de culte ; elle sert d'institution sociale et éducative : elle peut, ainsi, être accompagnée d’une madrassa, d'une bibliothèque, d’un centre de formation, voire d’une université. Elle sert aussi de lieu de rencontres et d’échanges sociaux.
Vous pouvez apercevoir au sommet de cette splendide mosquée, un immense nid de cigogne : Les cigognes transitent par le Maroc pour gagner l’Afrique
Chassé croisé dans les airs ! Tandis que le Maroc s’est vidé de ses MRE vacanciers, il devient subitement le pays d’accueil de nouveaux migrants : les cigognes qui passent par la case Maroc pour retrouver la chaleur de l’Afrique....
Faisal Mosque is conceived as the National Mosque of Pakistan. It has a covered area of 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft)[citation needed] and has a capacity to accommodate approximately 300,000 worshippers (100,000 in its main prayer hall, courtyard and porticoes and another 200,000 in its adjoining grounds)
La mosquée du sultan Hassan (arabe : مسجد السلطان حسن) est un complexe religieux islamique de la ville du Caire, la capitale de la république d'Égypte. Caractéristique de l'architecture mamelouke, elle fut édifiée à partir de 1356 sur l'ordre du sultan An-Nâsir al-Hasan. Ce vaste complexe abritait à l'origine plusieurs importantes madrasas où étaient étudiés les quatre madhhab ou écoles juridiques de l'islam sunnite : l'école hanafite, l'école hanbalite, l'école chaféite et l'école malékite. Le sanctuaire jouxte la mosquée Al-Rifa'i, dont il n'est séparé que par une rue étroite.
About Sultan Ahmet Mosque
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque is an historical mosque in Istanbul. The mosque is popularly known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior. It was built from 1609 to 1616, during the rule of Ahmed I. Like many other mosques, it also comprises a tomb of the founder, a madrasah and a hospice. While still used as a mosque, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque has also become a popular tourist attraction
The design of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is the culmination of two centuries of both Ottoman mosque and Byzantine church development. It incorporates some Byzantine elements of the neighboring Hagia Sophia with traditional Islamic architecture and is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period. The architect has ably synthesized the ideas of his master Sinan, aiming for overwhelming size, majesty and splendour. It has one main dome, six minarets, and other eight secondary domes.
The causeway to a mosque lined with plenty of merchants and beggars. At high-tide it becomes an island and the causeway is submerged. You weren't allowed to take photos inside the mosque complex, but it had a casket of Haji Ali's remains which were covered in bright cloth that the men would touch their heads to.
Our students enjoyed a day in Cordoba, the old capital of the Umayyad caliphate. Its whole historical center, including its Mesquita-Cathedral, was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.
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A mosque in Delhi.
Published in that's Shanghai, May 2007,
La Mosquée de Paris, construite entre 1922 et 1926, est située dans le Quartier latin, à deux pas du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris. De style hispano-mauresque, elle est dominée par son minaret de 33 mètres de hauteur. Inspiré de l’Alhambra de Grenade, le patio est entouré d’arcades sculptées. La salle des prières est une étape obligatoire de la visite pour sa décoration et ses magnifiques tapis. La Mosquée de Paris est aussi un lieu de détente avec son hammam où sont passés BOURVIL et DE FUNÈS dans “La Grande Vadrouille”, son restaurant, où déjeunaient BIRKIN et GAINSBOURG dans le film “Slogan”, sa cour ombragée où les habitants du quartier ont l'habitude de venir goûter un thé à la menthe ou un moment de quiétude.