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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 mosque in Murree... not sure the guy doing wudhu appreciated me taking his pic, but I thought it looked good...
Columns - the Mosque has about 1,000 columns in its outer areas, clad with over 20,000 marble panels inlaid with semi-precious stones including abalone shell, amethyst, lapis lazuli, mother of pearl, red agate. The 96 columns in the main prayer hall are decorated with mother of pearl.Calligraphy from the three styles of Kufi, Naskhi, Thuloth is used in the mosque, designed by calligraphers from Jordan, Syria, and UAE.Panels - 80 hand-crafted Iznik panels, or ceramic tiles, feature Thuloth style calligraphy from Sheikh Hasan Celbi of Turkey.
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.
When completed, this mosque will be the 3rd largest in the world. They have been building it for 15 years, and finally the scaffolding's coming off!
One of the historic mosques of Timbuktu, the Sankore mosque was built during the declining years of the Empire of Mali, in the early 15th century A.D. Architecturally, it is remarkable for its large pyramidal mihrab.
Süleymaniye Mosque Istanbul,
The interior of the mosque is almost a square, 59 meters in length and 58 meters in width, forming a single vast space.
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.