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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 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 Ahmed Mosque
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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:
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Katie Walker - www.flickr.com/photos/eilonwy77
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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 Faisal Mosque (Urdu: فیصل مسجد) is the largest mosque in Pakistan, located in the national capital city of Islamabad. Completed in 1986, it was designed by Turkish architect Vedat Dalokay, shaped like a desert Bedouin's tent, is an iconic symbol of Islamabad throughout the world.
The Sultan Mosque is located at 3 Muscat Street, Kampong Glam, Singapore.
The Mosque was first built in 1824 but rebuilt in 1932. Sultan Mosque was designated a national monument in 1975 and one of the most visited mosque in Singapore by local and tourist.
Virtual Tour of the Cambridge Central Mosque for Cambridge Uni architecture students. Saisha from the mosque was the camera and tech person who made it all possible while Julia Barfield of the architects behind the project (Marks Barfield), Mathew and myself spoke about the building and took part in a Q&A session afterwards.
The Straits Mosque, Melaka or Masjid Selat Melaka, is a mosque on the man-made island of Pulau Melaka near Malacca Town in Malacca state, Malaysia. It looks like a Floating Structure if the water level is high. Construction cost of the mosque is about MYR10 million.
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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 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.
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El miracle de les mosques va succeir, diuen, el setembre de 1286, quan l'exèrcit del rei de França, Felip l'Ardit, va assetjar Girona, amb el rei Pere d'Aragó.
Encara que la ciutat va capitular sense lluita, els francesos, en entrar a la ciutat, es van portar de manera ignominiosa: van robar, insultar i oprimir els gironins; van assaltar esglésies tot fent riota dels objectes de culte i, finalment, van profanar el cos de Sant Narcís, guardat a la col·legiata de Sant Feliu, i li van trencar un braç.
Això va ser massa: del cos del sant varen començar a sortir unes mosques gegants que es varen posar a picar furiosament tant els soldats francesos com els seus cavalls. I tot seguit de ser picats, els enemics morien espeternegant.
Aquest suposat fet va ocasionar una multitud d'escrits, sermons i llegendes i va originar també la típica i tòpica iconografia gironina que lliga indissolublement la imatge de les mosques a la ciutat."...
Perhaps not the biggest mosque in Istanbul, the Süleymaniye Mosque certainly one of the grandest and most beautiful
Bibi-Khanym Mosque (Persian: مسجد بی بی خانم; Uzbek: Bibi-Xonum machiti) is a famous historical Friday mosque in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, whose name comes from the wife of 14th-century ruler, Amir Timur.
After his Indian campaign in 1399 Timur decided to undertake the construction of a gigantic mosque in his new capital, Samarkand. The mosque was built using precious stones captured during his conquest of India. According to Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, 90 captured elephants were employed merely to carry precious stones, so as to erect a mosque at Samarkand — Bibi-Khanym Mosque. Construction was completed between 1399 and 1404. However, the mosque slowly fell into disuse, and crumbled to ruins over the centuries. Its demise was hastened due to the fact it pushed the construction techniques of the time to the very limit, and the fact that it was built too quickly. It eventually partially collapsed in 1897 when an earthquake occurred. However, in 1974 the government of the Uzbek SSR began to reconstruct the mosque, although the current mosque (which is still not completed) is effectively a brand-new building, as no original work remains. The bazaar at the foot of the Bibi-Khanym has changed little since 600 years ago.
للي مايعرف مع مجكنم
مجكنم تعني صغير قالت العرب جكنم جكنمةً فهو مجكنم
المهم هذا موموضوعنا
امس كنت رايح المنطقة الصناعيه علشان اضبط الموتر ..
وانا قاعد عند المحل جان يأذن ، فقلت له اصلي وارجع لك ، وين المسجد ؟
قال لي : المسجد مناك ووصف لي مكانه
مشيت وقعدت ادور !!
وصلت المكان
ماكو اثر حق مسيد !!
فجأه ولا التفت وشفت هالمئذنه المجكنمه
Plaza level view of the Hassan II Mosque showing the massive bronze doors and arches of the minaret on the left and the main building on the right.
Casablanca, Morocco
The Hassan II Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الحسن الثاني, French: Grande Mosquée Hassan II) is a mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. It is the second largest functioning mosque in Africa and is the 7th largest in the world. Its minaret is the world's second tallest minaret at 210 metres (689 ft). Completed in 1993, it was designed by Michel Pinseau under the guidance of King Hassan II and built by Moroccan artisans from all over the kingdom. The minaret is 60 stories high topped by a laser, the light from which is directed towards Mecca. The mosque stands on a promontory looking out to the Atlantic Ocean; worshippers can pray over the sea but there is no glass floor looking into the sea. The walls are of hand-crafted marble and the roof is retractable. A maximum of 105,000 worshippers can gather together for prayer: 25,000 inside the mosque hall and another 80,000 on the mosque's outside ground.—from Wikipedia