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The Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha or Alabaster Mosque (Arabic: مسجد محمد علي, Turkish: Mehmet Ali Paşa Camii) is a mosque situated in the Citadel of Cairo in Egypt and commissioned by Muhammad Ali Pasha between 1830 and 1848.
Situated on the summit of the citadel, this Ottoman mosque, the largest to be built in the first half of the 19th century, is, with its animated silhouette and twin minarets, the most visible mosque in Cairo.
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Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة al-Qāhira; French: Le Caire, literally "The Vanquisher" or "The Conqueror") is the capital of Egypt, the largest city in Africa and the 16th most populated metropolitan area in the world.
Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life.
Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the ancient cities of Memphis, Giza and Fustat which are nearby to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza.
This road brings back so many memories of my childhood. I was looked after by an elderly couple, in houses that were all down the left side of the road. The Rainsfords. It is factory units now. My parent dropped me off while they went to work. At the top right of the road the entrance was the drop off point for the cattle and sheep to be unloaded from the trains. They would run down the road towards town. It was a sight to see. Sad ending for them. It was amazing how they took them into town along the main roads.
Bordesley railway station is a small railway station serving the area of Bordesley in Birmingham, England located between Birmingham Moor Street and Small Heath stations. The current minimal level of service at the station is provided by London Midland services between Birmingham Snow Hill and Stratford-upon-Avon.
The single island platform is above street level, as the railway line here is on a viaduct. The only public access is from Coventry Road, directly underneath the railway bridge.
Bordesley station was opened in 1855 by the Great Western Railway on their main line from London (Paddington) to Birkenhead (Woodside). It was originally a two platform station, but was rebuilt as a four platform station with two island platforms when the line was upgraded to four tracks during 1915. The station once had extensive cattle sidings adjacent to and on Duddeston Viaduct
The station still carries the painted lettering "BR(W) Bordesley Cattle Station", and "Bordesley Cattle Station GWR" from the time when, as part of the Great Western Railway and later British Rail's (Western) region, it was used to bring cattle from the countryside to the Bull Ring markets.[3]
The station was downgraded in the 1960s to minimal facilities and services, and one island platform was taken out of use. Its main function since has been to cater for football fans travelling to Birmingham City's St Andrews football ground on match days
My Grandfather met Muhammad Ali in D.C. in February of 1969 and asked for an autograph. Ali said for $1 he could have it, and now I have it.
The mosque was commissioned by Muhammad Ali Pasha between 1830 and 1848 and is situated on the summit of the Citadel. This Ottoman mosque, the largest to be built in the first half of the 19th century, is, with its animated silhouette and twin minarets, the most visible mosque in Cairo. The mosque was built in memory of Tusun Pasha, Muhammad Ali's oldest son, who died in 1816.
The mosque was built on the site of old Mamluk buildings in Cairo's Citadel between 1830 and 1848, although not completed until the reign of Said Pasha in 1857. The architect was Yusuf Bushnak from Istanbul and its model was the Yeni Mosque
It is built on the site of Mamluk palaces destroyed at the behest of the patron, an act reminiscent of that of Saladin who wiped out all traces of Fatimid power by dismantling their palaces, and it also superseded the adjacent Mosque of al-Nasir Muhammad as the new state mosque. This first independent ruler of Egypt chose to build his state mosque entirely in the architectural style of his former overlords, the Ottomans, unlike the Mamluks who, despite their political submission to the Ottomans, tenaciously stuck to the architectural styles of the two Mamluk dynasties. But then, as an Ottoman governor of Albanian origin, his primary identification was with the Ottomans rather than his local subjects and he even had designs on the Sultanate for a time.
This mosque, with its general scheme consisting of a square sanctuary covered by a central dome flanked by four half-domes, is a conscious revival of Ottoman imperial style. The style, however, was not the only imperial aspect that the architect strived to emulate. The monumental scale of the sanctuary rivals that of Sultan Ahmet (1609-17); the adjoining courtyard surrounded by the typical domed porticoes is of a larger area than that of the Süleymaniye (1550-57); the slightly pointed dome, although of a diameter smaller than its Ottoman counterparts, has a profile equal in height to that of the Süleymaniye and higher than that of the Selimiye (1569-74); the height of the minarets is unrivaled by any of their Ottoman counterparts.
The mosque's decoration styles shows strong influence from the European and Ottoman renaissance, characteristic of Ottoman architecture in Istanbul from this period. The clock tower and abolition fountain are examples of this influence as are the alabaster panels, the interior design and the inside decoration of the dome.
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150 cm x 150 cm Oleo y Acrilico sobre lienzo
Arriba :Victor Galindez, procesicion al luna Park con coche corona y logo de Mustang Ranch.
Mediano: Joe Frazier, Bonavena, Lee Carr, logo panamericanos, Goyo Peralta Bonavena,
Bonavena Muhammad Ali.
Abajo: Joe Conforte, Ross Brymer, Ringo Bonavena y Sally Conforte.
Falta Pintar: Bota de Goyo Peralta y tres cabezas de la procesion, Fuego en sombrero de Bymer
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One of Cairo's most popular tourist attractions is the Citadel which houses a number of museums, ancient mosques and other sites, located on a spur of limestone that had been detached from its parent Moqattam Hills by quarrying. The Citadel is one of the world's greatest monuments to medieval warfare, as well as a highly visible landmark on Cairo's eastern skyline.Particularly when viewed from the back side (from the north), the Citadel reveals a very medieval character..Taken @Cairo, Egypt
Situated in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, not far from Allentown. Ali used it to train for important fights in the 1970s - now, it is kind of run down, consisting of several log cabins and big boulders with the names of great boxers (which Ali had set up back in the day to honor other pugilism greats like Sonny Liston, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Joe Frazier).
Al-Rifa‘i (Ahmad ibn ʽAli al-Rifaʽi) 1119-1183, was an Iraqi Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, mystic, jurist, and theologian, known for being the eponymous founder of the Rifaʽi tariqa (Sufi order) of Islam. Although this mosque is named after him, the shrine contains the burials of his grandson, 'Ali Abu Shibbak al-Rifai and another Sufi mystic, 'Abd Allah al-Ansari.
The Mosque of al-Rifa'i replaced a zawiya (shrine) of the sufi saint, al-Rifa'i. It is also the royal mausoleum of Muhammad 'Ali's family, in addition to Hosh al-Basha (the Courtyard of the Pasha), in the Southern Cemetery.
Patron: commissioned by Hoshiyar Qadin (Hoşyar Kadın) ?-1885, consort to Ibrahim Pasha & Walida Pasha to their son, Isma'il Pasha.
Original architect: Hussein Pasha Fahmi (a distant cousin of Muhammad 'Ali), Minister of Awqaf, who died in 1880 when work stopped.
Construction Supervisor: Khalil Agha chief eunuch & director of estates for Isma'il Pasha.
Completed: work resumed in 1905 when the Khedive, Abbas II, ordered its completion. Work was supervised by architect Max Herz (Herz Miksa, Hungarian) 1856-1919, head of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Mohammad Reza Shah) 1919-1980, the last Shah (King) of the Imperial State of Iran (r.1941-1979).
Islamic Monument #U103
London weekend walk - Turnpike Lane, Wood Green, Tottenham for street art, Lea River and the cemetery.
Al-Rifa‘i (Ahmad ibn ʽAli al-Rifaʽi) 1119-1183, was an Iraqi Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, mystic, jurist, and theologian, known for being the eponymous founder of the Rifaʽi tariqa (Sufi order) of Islam. Although this mosque is named after him, the shrine contains the burials of his grandson, 'Ali Abu Shibbak al-Rifai and another Sufi mystic, 'Abd Allah al-Ansari.
The Mosque of al-Rifa'i replaced a zawiya (shrine) of the sufi saint, al-Rifa'i. It is also the royal mausoleum of Muhammad 'Ali's family, in addition to Hosh al-Basha (the Courtyard of the Pasha), in the Southern Cemetery.
Patron: commissioned by Hoshiyar Qadin (Hoşyar Kadın) ?-1885, consort to Ibrahim Pasha & Walida Pasha to their son, Isma'il Pasha.
Original architect: Hussein Pasha Fahmi (a distant cousin of Muhammad 'Ali), Minister of Awqaf, who died in 1880 when work stopped.
Construction Supervisor: Khalil Agha chief eunuch & director of estates for Isma'il Pasha.
Completed: work resumed in 1905 when the Khedive, Abbas II, ordered its completion. Work was supervised by architect Max Herz (Herz Miksa, Hungarian) 1856-1919, head of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe.
Islamic Monument #U103
(History.com) On October 30, 1974, 32-year-old Muhammad Ali becomes the heavyweight champion of the world for the second time when he knocks out 25-year-old champ George Foreman in the eighth round of the "Rumble in the Jungle," a match in Kinshasa, Zaire. Seven years before, Ali had lost his title when the government accused him of draft-dodging and the boxing commission took away his license. His victory in Zaire made him only the second dethroned champ in history to regain his belt.
The "Rumble in the Jungle" (named by promoter Don King, who’d initially tagged the bout "From the Slave Ship to the Championship!" until Zaire’s president caught wind of the idea and ordered all the posters burned) was Africa’s first heavyweight championship match. The government of the West African republic staged the event—its president, Mobutu Sese Seko, personally paid each of the fighters $5 million simply for showing up—in hopes that it would draw the world’s attention to the country’s enormous beauty and vast reserves of natural resources. Ali agreed. "I wanted to establish a relationship between American blacks and Africans," he wrote later. "The fight was about racial problems, Vietnam. All of that." He added: "The Rumble in the Jungle was a fight that made the whole country more conscious."
At 4:30 a.m. on October 30, 60,000 spectators gathered in the moonlight (organizers had timed the fight to overlap with prime time in the U.S.) at the outdoor Stade du 20 Mai to watch the fight. They were chanting "Ali, bomaye" ("Ali, kill him"). The ex-champ had been taunting Foreman for weeks, and the young boxer was eager to get going. When the bell rang, he began to pound Ali with his signature sledgehammer blows, but the older man simply backed himself up against the ropes and used his arms to block as many hits as he could. He was confident that he could wait Foreman out. (Ali’s trainer later called this strategy the "rope-a-dope," because he was "a dope" for using it.)
By the fifth round, the youngster began to tire. His powerful punches became glances and taps. And in the eighth, like "a bee harassing a bear," as one Times reporter wrote, Ali peeled himself off the ropes and unleashed a barrage of quick punches that seemed to bewilder the exhausted Foreman. A hard left and chopping right caused the champ’s weary legs to buckle, and he plopped down on the mat. The referee counted him out with just two seconds to go in the round.
Ali lost his title and regained it once more before retiring for good in 1981. Foreman, meanwhile, retired in 1977 but kept training, and in 1987 he became the oldest heavyweight champ in the history of boxing. Today, the affable Foreman is a minister and rancher in Texas and the father of five daughters and five sons, all named George. He’s also the spokesman for the incredibly popular line of George Foreman indoor grills.
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Mailed from Kingfisher, Oklahoma to Services at Box 644 in Des Moines, Iowa on March 9, 1974:
Please send me "Anyone Can Win Sweepstakes" Thank you. Mrs. John L. Donne Route 1 Box 98 Kingfisher, Oklahoma
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Bert's sons, Hayden and Hollis, gets to meet Muhammad Ali, while Hayden reads his "Great Americans" report to him. thebertshow.com/muhammadali
"They're Great!" - Original acrylic painting on stretched canvas, 26 x 26, painted 2013, images include: Muhammad Ali THE GREATEST, Jackie Gleason THE GREAT ONE, United States GREAT SEAL, Tony the Tiger THEY'RE GREAT!, Barnum and Bailey Circus THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, Steve McQueen THE GREAT ESCAPE.
[5dmk2, 35mm f1.4L CS3]
Street art by artist "Aerosol Arabic" who has done a lot of murals. Check out his website:
www.aerosolarabic.com/v2/index.php
This mural is on the side wall of a Bangla saree shop called "srithi."
A stellar cover cast: Squeaky, Patty, Muhammad, Mickey, Pete, Jackie, and the black gal with her kid falling out the window--
Indiana State visited Louisville to kick off Louisville's 2009 Football Season.
Muhammad Ali watching from the sky boxes.
Forever rivals! My prized Muhammad Ali autographed baseball beside an index card signed by the late, great Joe Frazier.
Boxing memorabilia
Patron, begun 1848: Muhammad 'Ali (Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha) 1769-1849, Wāli of Egypt, Sudan, Sham, Hejaz, Morea, Thasos, Crete (r.1805-1848).
Patron, completed 1857: Sa‘id (Mohamed Sa'id Pasha) 1822-1863, 4th son of Muhammad 'Ali, Wāli of Egypt & Sudan (r.1854-1863).
Architect: Yusuf Bushnak, an otherwise unknown Greek architect from Istanbul, who is thought to have modelled it on the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed (Blue Mosque) in Istanbul.
Islamic Monument #503