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Shooting the Sultan Mosque in a different light - - - one of the oldest mosques in Singapore.
***Canon EOS 20D converted infrared digital camera + Canon EFS10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM ӏ Exposure details: 10mm at 1/30s, f/16, ISO 100
The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba, officially known by its ecclesiastical name, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Córdoba dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and located in the Spanish region of Andalusia. Due to its status as a former Islamic mosque, it is also known as the Mezquita and as the Great Mosque of Córdoba (Spanish: Mezquita de Córdoba).
According to traditional accounts a Visigothic church, the Catholic Christian Basilica of Saint Vincent of Saragossa, originally stood on the site of the current Mosque-Cathedral, although the historicity of this narrative has been questioned by scholars. The Great Mosque was constructed on the orders of Abd ar-Rahman I in 785 CE, when Córdoba was the capital of the Muslim-controlled region of Al-Andalus. It was expanded multiple times afterwards under Abd ar-Rahman's successors up to the late 10th century. Among the most notable additions, Abd ar-Rahman III added a minaret (finished in 958) and his son Al-Hakam II added a richly-decorated new mihrab and maqsura section The mosque was converted to a cathedral in 1236 when Córdoba was captured by the Christian forces of Castile during the Reconquista. The structure itself underwent only minor modifications until a major building project in the 16th century inserted a new Renaissance cathedral nave and transept into the center of the building. The former minaret, which had been converted to a bell tower, was also significantly remodelled around this time. Starting in the 19th century, modern restorations have in turn led to the recovery and study of some of the building's Islamic-era elements. Today, the building continues to serve as the city's cathedral and Mass is celebrated therein daily.
The mosque structure is regarded as an important monument in the history of Islamic architecture and is considered by many scholars to have been highly influential on the subsequent "Moorish" architecture of the western Mediterranean regions of the Muslim world. It is also one of Spain's major historic monuments and tourist attractions, as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984.
The Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque, also referred to as the Blue Mosque, is a Sunni Muslim mosque located in downtown Beirut. It was inaugurated in 2008. Its design is evocative of the Ottomans’ monumental architecture.
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Masjid Agung Jawa Tengah (MAJT) is a mosque located in Semarang, Central Java province, Indonesia.
This mosque was built since 2001 until it was completed in its entirety in 2006. The mosque stands on 10 hectares of land. The Great Mosque was inaugurated by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on November 14, 2006. MAJT is a provincial mosque for the province of Central Java.
Groupe de femmes ouïghoures posant devant mon objectif sur la place de la mosquée Id Kah à Kashgar, région autonome du Xinjiang, Chine.
Construite en 1442 et depuis plusieurs fois agrandie, rénovée et réaménagée, la mosquée Id Kah est. située sur la place centrale de la vieille ville de Kashgar, dont la superficie permet la présence de plus de 10 000 personnes à la prière du vendredi ou lors des fêtes religieuses.Sa salle de prière est une longue galerie soutenue par 140 piliers sculptés.
Autrefois entourée de rues pittoresques bordées de bazars, l’accès de la mosquée a été réaménagé par les autorités chinoises au début du millénaire de manière tellement radicale que l’une de nos amies voyageant avec nous et qui était passée ici quelques années plus tôt, a fondu en larmes en voyant l'ampleur des destructions.
Ville de la Région autonome ouïghoure du Xinjiang, Kashgar et son oasis se trouvent au point de rencontre ouest des routes nord et sud qui contournent le désert de Taklamakan
Étape majeure de la Route de la soie historique durant vingt siècles du fait de sa position géographique privilégiée entre désert et montagne, Kashgar avait su rester une ville à l'identité ouïgoure fortement marquée. Malheureusement, depuis plusieurs décennies, le gouvernement central chinois s'est employé, avec l'efficacité qu'on lui connait, à détruire les spécificités de cette culture turcophone de religion musulmane plus orientée vers l'Asie Centrale que vers la Chine Han, imposant à cette ville historique une culture chinoise qui n'est pas la sienne. La vieille ville de Kashgar autrefois parfaitement conservée dans son authenticité, a beaucoup souffert de cette politique de négation de la culture ouighoure.
Géographiquement , démographiquement et culturellement le Xinjiang appartient à la partie est de l'Asie centrale. Une succession de peuples et d'empires (dont les Tibétains, les Mongols, les Timourides, les Russes....) ont rivalisé pour le contrôle de son territoire dont l'histoire est documentée sur au moins 2 500 ans.. Cependant, de 840 à 1130, le royaume de Kocho marque une période d'indépendance et même d'expansion vis à vis de la Chine des Tang et au XXème siècle les Ouighours établissent même à deux reprises une république autonome sur une partie de la région. L'une d'elle, très éphémère (1933 - 1934) a pour capitale Kashgar.
A partir de la dynastie Han au IIe siècle av. J.-C., sous le nom de Protectorat des Régions de l'Ouest, la région fait partie des territoires chinois à différentes périodes et passe sous la domination de la dynastie Qing au XVIIIe siècle, remplacée en 1912 par le gouvernement de la république de Chine. À la fin de la guerre civile chinoise, en 1949, il fait partie de la république populaire de Chine
Abdul Gafoor Mosque was founded in 1859 for Indian Muslims and Bawanese immigrants who were among the pioneers of colonial Singapore’s trade and economy. Named after its benefactor Shaik Abdul Gaffoor , the mosque was completed in year 1910.
The mosque was gazetted at National Monument on 5 July 1979.
Another view of the mosque - I spent half a day there just going around appreciating the architecture, design and colours. And taking loads of pictures .
A palace of tranquility.
A place of peace of mind.
A place of prayers and worshipping...
İkbaliye Mosque was built in 1914. It is a local district mosque providing a holy ground for prayers and worshipping for the neighbourhood.
It is a very beautiful local mosque as well.
This gold-plated dome mosque is one of the most beautiful mosque in the Southeast Asian. It is located in Jalan Nurhasim, Meruyung, Limo-Depok. It has 5 gold-plated domes with the largest has 16 meters diameter and 25 meters height. This mosque stands in 100 hectare area meanwhile the mosque itself has 8.000 square meters area.
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The minbar at the mosque at Bohoniki, one of the last places of worship of the Lipka Tatar community still survives as it has since the late 14th Century in what are now the borderlands Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus.
The minbar is a pulpit in the mosque where the imam stands to deliver sermons, as well as delivering a wider range of readings and prayers.
The mosque was built at the turn of the 19th and the 20th centuries, probably in 1873 to replace an earlier mosque destroyed in a fire. During World War II, the mosque was destroyed by the Nazis, who organised a field hospital on the site. After 1945, the mosque underwent several renovations several times. In 2003, the roof was renovated; the tin roof was changed to shingle roof. In 2005 a general renovation was carried out.
This t is a simple wooden building built on a rectangular plan with dimensions of 11.49 m × 8.03 m. It has been restored with the help of the Polish and Turkish governments and the European Union.
Towards the end of the 14th century, Muslim Lipka Tatars were invited into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by Vytautas the Great. These Tatars first settled in Lithuania proper and later spread to other parts of what became the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. While maintaining their religion, they united their fate with that of the mainly Christian Commonwealth. From the 1410 Battle of Grunwald onwards the Lipka Tatar light cavalry regiments participated in every significant military campaign of Lithuania and Poland.
The Lipka Tatar origins can be traced back to the descendant states of the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan – the White Horde, the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate and Kazan Khanate. They initially served as a noble military caste but later they became urban-dwellers known for their crafts, horses and gardening skills. Throughout centuries they resisted assimilation and kept their traditional lifestyle. While they remained very attached to their religion, over time however, they lost their original Tatar language and have for many centuries spoken the Polish, Lithuanian or Belarusian of their neighbours.
Today there are about 10,000–15,000 Lipka Tatars in the former areas of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Their numbers have declined through intermarriage with the overwhelmingly Christian local population and through emigration to larger cities or to the United States, where Lipka Tartars built New York’s first mosque, in Brooklyn, in 1928. The American actor Charles Bronson is of partial Lipka Tatar ancestry.
This article incorporates text from the English and Polish Wikipedias.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. It is the largest mosque in the UAE and numbers during Eid can be more than 40,000 people.
The Putra Mosque, or Masjid Putra in Malay language, is the principal mosque of Putrajaya, Malaysia. Construction of the mosque began in 1997 and was completed two years later. It is located next to Perdana Putra which houses the Malaysian Prime Minister's office and man-made Putrajaya Lake. In front of the mosque is a large square with flagpoles flying Malaysian states' flags.
The pink-domed Putra Mosque is constructed with rose-tinted granite consists of three main functional areas - the prayer hall, the Sahn, or courtyard, and various learning facilities and function rooms. The mosque can accommodate 15,000 worshippers at any one time.
At 210 metres in height the minaret is the second tallest minaret in the world. It has a laser beam fitted at the top, which is electronically operated in the evening. It is oriented towards Mecca, across the sea and has a range of 30 kilometres. The minaret is said to enhance the visual alignment of the boulevard. It is square in shape thrusting skyward. The base to the top width ratio of 1 to 8 (between basement and the summit) has a marble covering on the exterior with austere decoration. The faces of the facade have carved ornamentation with different materials. There are stitches of roudani tracetine on a 100,000 MP surface. This decorative material (with chrome and green as dominant colours), is a substitute for the use of bricks, the material used in many other notable minarets, and has given the mosque an extraordinary elegance. Green tiles decorate the minaret for one third of the height from the top, and then changes colour to deep green or turquoise blue; it is said that in the Hassan II minaret, the designer had used his sea-foam green and God's blue to celebrate the life of a king. The concrete used for the minaret was a special high-grade type, which could perform well under severe conditions of a combined action of strong wind and seismicity. This was achieved by the Science Department of the Bouygues Group, the contractors for the project, who developed an extra-strength concrete four times stronger than ordinary concrete. Called B.H.P (highly resistant concrete), it offers a resistance to compression value of 1200 bars per sqcm (claimed to be a world record) and has a very quick setting time. This enabled the building of a taller structure with due underpinning of the foundation, while adhering to the construction schedule. Cranes were also designed to suit the height of the minaret for concreting.
Istanbul, Turkey
The Süleymaniye Mosque is one of the largest mosques in Istanbul and regarded as its most important. It was built on the order of Suleiman the Magnificent by the great architect Sinan and both are buried within the complex. Construction work began in 1550 CE and was finished in 1558 CE.
History
The complex stands on the grounds of the first palace built in the city by the conquering Ottomans. When in 1465 CE, the imperial entourage moved to the Topkapi Palace, the grounds of the old one was given over for construction of the new complex. Work on the Süleymaniye Mosque began in 1550 CE and was finished in 1558 CE. During this time, Sinan and his family lived on site.
Like the city’s other imperial mosques, the Süleymaniye Mosque was not only a place of worship, but also a charitable foundation, or kulliye. The mosque is surrounded by its former hospital, soup kitchen, schools, caravanserai (resting place for travellers) and bath house. This complex provided a welfare system which fed over 1,000 of the city’s poor – Muslims, Christians and Jews alike – every day. The size of the millstone in its courtyard gives an idea of the amount of grain that was needed to feed everyone.
Exterior
As with all imperial mosques in Istanbul, the entrance to the mosque contains a forecourt with a central fountain. The exterior facade of the mosque is decorated with rectangular blue coloured Iznik tile window lunettes.
To the south of the mosque is a madresa housing a library containing 110,000 manuscripts. The main courtyard entrance contained the rooms of the mosque astronomer who determined the times of prayer.
A minaret stands on each of the four corners of the courtyard, two tall and two short. Traditionally, four minarets were used for mosques that were endowed by a sultan. Princes and princesses could construct two minarets; others only one. In total, the minarets have ten galleries (small balconies), which by tradition indicates that Sulayman I was the 10th Ottoman sultan. The main dome is 53 meters high.
The Süleymaniye Mosque was ravaged by a fire in 1660 and was restored by Sultan Mehmed IV. Part of the dome collapsed again during the earthquake of 1766. Subsequent repairs damaged what was left of the original decoration of Sinan. Recent cleaning has shown that Sinan experimented first with blue, before turning red the dominant colour of the dome.
During World War I the courtyard was used as a weapons depot, and when some of the ammunition ignited, the mosque suffered another fire. Not until 1956 was it fully restored again.
Interior
The interior of the mosque is a vast, almost square space, being 59 metres in length and 58 metres in width.
There are stained glass windows and blue, Iznik tilework on the qiblah wall (far wall in my photo). On either side of the mihrab are large calligraphy tiles with text from Surah al-Fatiha, the beginning chapter of the Quran.
The interior always feels cool, partly because a clever air-flow system was incorporated into the original design to direct soot from the candles and oil lamps to a single point. It was then collected and used for ink.
Mausoleums
In the garden behind the main mosque there are two mausoleums including the tombs of Sultan Sulayman I, his wife Roxelana, his daughter Mihrimah, his mother Dilaşub Saliha and his sister Asiye. The sultans Sulayman II and Ahmed II, are also buried here.
Embedded within the main mausoleum is said to be a piece of the Hajar al-Aswad. This is a part of the Black Stone attached to the Ka’bah in Makkah, the holiest place in Islam.
Tomb of Sinan
Just outside the mosque walls, to the north is the tomb of Sinan, considered the greatest architect of the classical period of Ottoman architecture. Sinan died aged 98, having built 131 mosques and 200 other buildings. He was born a Christian and later converted to Islam.
The Medieval Mosque is a part of a collaborative build with my LUG friends from Zbudujmy To!, which shows an Arabic Street, with 3 districts: Savannah, Poor district and Wealthy district.
The mosque, was of course made for the wealthy disctrict.
You can check out the full review of my build on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/D4ZTGFEfdeQ
The star mosaic inspired by:
Andreas Lenander - www.flickr.com/photos/124068149@N02
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Katie Walker - www.flickr.com/photos/eilonwy77
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