View allAll Photos Tagged Mosque
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
We decided to return to the southern side of old Fes. We walked by the Kairaouine Mosque and managed to squeak a peak through the open doors.
On the way back from a Bosphorus Cruise, this mosque made an incredible silhouette against this sunset!
Mosque in Srinagar near Yuza's tomb. Some believe moslim saint Yuza was in fact Jesus... (based on the book Jesus lived in India, LOL)
The London Central Mosque (also known as the Islamic Cultural Centre, ICC or Regent's Park Mosque) is a mosque in London, England.
It was designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd, completed in 1978, and has a prominent golden dome. The main hall can hold over five thousand worshippers, with women praying on a balcony overlooking the hall. The mosque holds a chandelier and a vast carpet, with very little furniture.
The inside of the dome is decorated with broken shapes in the Islamic tradition. There is also a small book shop and halal café on the premises. The Mosque is joined to the Islamic cultural centre which was officially opened by King George VI in 1944.
The land was donated by King George VI to the Muslim community of Britain in return for the donation of land in Cairo by King Farouk of Egypt and Sudan on which to build an Anglican cathedral.
More information about mosques in Phuket on my Phuket blog @ www.jamiesphuketblog.com/2016/07/mosques-in-phuket.html.
İzmir, historically also Smyrna, is Turkey's third most populous city and the country's second largest port city after Istanbul. It is located along the outlying waters of the Gulf of İzmir, by the Aegean Sea.
In the reign of Sultan Mahmud II (1784-1839), Nusretiye Mosque in Tophane (1822-26) was built by Kirkor Kalfa between 1823 and 1826 as part of a larger project to rebuild the Tophane artillery barracks that burnt in the Firuzaga fire. Hacı Mıgırdich Charkian (1799-1899) worked as assistant architect and chief draughtsman for the project. The name of mosque Nusretiye, meaning Victory, referred to the Sultan’s victory over the rebellious janissaries the previous year.