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The Badshahi Mosque at the Lahore Fort in Pakistan was built in the 1670s and is one of the great monuments of the Mughal period. (Image Credit: A. Azfar Moin)
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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.
The Dolmabahçe Mosque, also called the Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan Mosque (Turkish: Dolmabahçe Camii, Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan Camii), is a historical mosque located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was constructed between 1853 and 1855, and commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid I and his mother Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan.
Dongguan Mosque (simplified Chinese: 东关清真寺; traditional Chinese: 東關清真寺; pinyin: Dōngguān Qīngzhēnsì), is a mosque in Xining, Qinghai province, China.
Restored recently, it was built in the 14th century and has colorful white arches along the outside of the wide building. It has a green and white dome and two tall minarets.
Generals Ma Qi and Ma Bufang controlled the Great Dongguan Mosque when they were military governors of Qinghai.
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Rare to see a military style Masjid ul Nabwi mosque outside Cantonment, but here one is down the Canal at the LDA's Tajpura housing scheme.
It's a bit like Texas, really. In Plano, and other suburbs in Texas you'll run into megachurches on each corner of the street, and with each new block being constructed you'll find new churches going up as well. Khobar is booming (not surprising at $138 a barrel), with shiny suburbs with mcMansions popping up like mushrooms for a burgeoning middle class and the mosques try to follow the pace.
In the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque - but I think we look like the sandpeople. Straight out of Star Wars. ;-)
One of the city's most striking landmarks, this mosque was completed in 1968, on the site of an old wooden mosque built in 1852. Its splendid gilded cupolas can be seen majestically above the Kuching skyline. All visitors are required to dress respectfully and non-Muslims are not allowed to enter during prayer times.