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Mosque called in the city "Iglesia" which mean church in Spanish, because it was a church in the Spanish Colonial era.
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
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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.
Borje and the mosque has no minaret. The first mosques were built and mejtep 1810th year, they hajret ot Borjanina Ali bin Tahir. In Albania, the faith was banned and mosques are closed on public order in 1967. year. The mosque was reopened 1999th year, a new building of the mosque was completed today 2001th year.
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.
The Shah Mosque (Persian: مسجد شاه), also known as Imam Mosque (Persian: مسجد امام), renamed after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, and Jaame' Abbasi Mosque, is a mosque in Isfahan, Iran, standing in south side of Naghsh-e Jahan Square. Built during the Safavid period, ordered by the first Shah Abbas of Persia. The mosque has also been called Jameh Mosque of Isfahan over the course of years.
View of the Mosque from Naqsh-e Jahan Square
It is regarded as one of the masterpieces of Iranian/Persian Architecture and an excellent example of Islamic era architecture of Iran. The Shah Mosque of Isfahan is one of the everlasting masterpieces of architecture in Iran. It is registered, along with the Naghsh-e Jahan Square, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[1] Its construction began in 1611, and its splendor is mainly due to the beauty of its seven-colour mosaic tiles and calligraphic inscriptions. The mosque is one of the treasures featured on Around the World in 80 Treasures presented by the architecture historian Dan Cruickshank.
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The Minaret of the Kutubiyya Mosque in Marrakesh, Morocco. This tower was completed around the year 1195!
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The Süleymaniye Mosque is an Ottoman imperial mosque located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan. An inscription specifies the foundation date as 1550 and the inauguration date as 1557. Behind the qibla wall of the mosque is an enclosure containing the separate octagonal mausoleums of Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana). For 462 years, the Süleymaniye Mosque was the largest mosque in the city, until it was surpassed by the Çamlıca Mosque in 2019. The Süleymaniye Mosque is one of the best-known sights of Istanbul, and from its location on the Third Hill, it commands an extensive view of the city around the Golden Horn.
The Melaka Straits Mosque is known as Malacca's floating mosque as it is built on stilts above the sea.
It was officially opened by Malaysia's King on 24th November 2006. It is constructed with modern Islamic design and craftsmanship. While the main dome is Middle Eastern in appearance, the four corner turrets are topped with typical Malaysian rooflines.
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.
The Fatih Mosque (Turkish: Fatih Camii, "Conqueror's Mosque" in English) is an Ottoman mosque in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey. The original mosque on the site was constructed between 1463 and 1470 on the site of the Church of the Holy Apostles. It was seriously damaged in the 1766 earthquake and was rebuilt in 1771 to a different design. It is one of the largest examples of Turkish-Islamic architecture in Istanbul and represents an important stage in the development of classic Turkish architecture. It is named after Ottoman sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, known in Turkish as Fatih Sultan Mehmed, the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453.
Sultan Ahmet Mosque, popularly known as the Blue Mosque, is one of the famous landmarks in Istanbul. Built in early 1600s during the rule of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I, it incorporates some Byzantine Christian elements of the neighboring Hagia Sophia with traditional Islamic architecture and is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period.
Shot here are a series of photographs I took of the mosque and Hagia Sofia at dusk, during my recent trip to Istanbul.
The Blue Mosque, iconic building of Istanbul and perhaps the whole of Turkey is better known to the Turks as Sultan Ahmet Mosque, or Sultan Ahmet Camii, after its builder who died in 1617.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. It is the largest mosque in the UAE and numbers during Eid can be more than 40,000 people.
From the main street you can only see a glimpse of the fine Serefiye mosque with türbe attached. wIthin its courtyard you get a good impression of its powerful arches and minaret, all built in perfectly masoned blocks. It was built surprisingly late, in 1528, by a local Kurdish emir.
The photo gives you a good idea of the interior, with very poor lighting conditions.
Bitlis, Eastern Turkey
The Süleymaniye Mosque, built on the order of Sultan Süleyman (Süleyman the Magnificent), "was fortunate to be able to draw on the talents of the architectural genius of Mimar Sinan" (481 Traditions and Encounters: Brief Global History). The construction work began in 1550 and the mosque was finished in 1557.
This "vast religious complex called the Süleymaniye...blended Islamic and Byzantine architectural elements. It combines tall, slender minarets with large domed buildings supported by half domes in the style of the Byzantine church Hagia Sophia (which the Ottomans converted into the mosque of Aya Sofya)" (481 Traditions and Encounters: Brief Global History).
The design of the Süleymaniye also plays on Suleyman's self-conscious representation of himself as a 'second Solomon.' It references the Dome of the Rock, which was built on the site of the Temple of Solomon, as well as Justinian's boast upon the completion of the Hagia Sophia: "Solomon, I have surpassed thee!"[1] The Süleymaniye, similar in magnificence to the preceding structures, asserts Suleyman's historical importance. The structure is nevertheless smaller in size than its older archetype, the Hagia Sophia.
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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.
There are some very old mosques in Bitlis, sometimes difficult to find in the narrow streets in the centre.
Bitlis, Eastern Turkey
The Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, is famous for its extensive faience tile work. It has been described as 'a mole on the cheek of Lahore'. It was built in seven years, starting around 1634–1635 AD, during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan. The mosque is inside the Inner City and is easiest accessed from Delhi Gate.