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Sheikh Zayed Mosque, reflection pool, Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2023
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Sancaklar Mosque is a mosque in the Büyükçekmece district of Istanbul. Designed by Emre Arolat, the mosque was opened in 2013. It received many awards for its innovative design. In 2015, it was awarded the ArchDaily "Religious Building of the Year" Award.
The mosque is located in a natural setting surrounded by rolling hills and greenery in the countryside. The design aims to integrate with the natural environment and create a tranquil environment for worship. The exterior facade is made of raw concrete. The interior design is simple and contemporary in style. There are also steps for praying in the prayer area. The prayer area has natural lighting coming from the qibla side. There is a separate section and a separate entrance for women in the mosque.
Juma Mosque is a 10th–18th century mosque in Khiva, Uzbekistan. It is one of the principal monuments of Itchan Kala, the walled old city of Khiva, which is a World Heritage Site. It stands in the middle of Itchan Kala, on the road connecting the west gate and the east gate.
La mosquée et le pavillon des invités sont les deux bâtiments rouges de part et d'autres du mausolée du Taj Mahal. Ils sont censés être totalement identiques, pour une question de symétrie, mais en réalité ils diffèrent légèrement l'un de l'autre. Les deux sont sur le "Chameli Farsh", c'est le nom qu'on donne à la terasse à 9m de hauteur qu'il y a au bout du complexe du Taj Mahal et qui contient, outre le mausolée, la mosquée et le pavillon des invités, deux bassins remplis d'eau, entre les bâtiments annexes et le bâtiment principal.
Taksim Mosque is a mosque complex in Taksim Square, Istanbul. It was designed by two Turkish architects in the Art Deco style, and can hold up to 3,000 worshippers at the same time. Construction began on 2017, and lasted for four years,2021.
Sultan Qaboos Mosque, outside, Muscat, Oman, April 2023
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Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2023
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Badshahi Mosque was commissioned by Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671, with construction of the mosque lasting for two years until 1673. The mosque is an important example of Mughal architecture, with an exterior that is decorated with carved red sandstone with marble inlay. It remains the largest and most recent of the grand imperial mosques of the Mughal-era, and is the second-largest mosque in Pakistan.[4] After the fall of the Mughal Empire, the mosque was used as a garrison by the Sikh Empire and the British Empire, and is now one of Pakistan's most iconic sights.
The Blue Mosque, or Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii), built between 1609-1616, showcases a novel engineering technique of stacking domes to support its vast, spacious interior. Inspired by Byzantine architecture, the large central dome is flanked by smaller semi-domes, distributing the roof’s weight effectively. This creates an open, grand interior while maintaining structural stability, making it an architectural marvel of the Ottoman Empire.
The building was a gift from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and took two years to build at a cost of around £5 million. It was officially inaugurated on 8 August 1997. When the building was opened there were over sixty limousines and impressive security measures.
It is the southernmost mosque in continental Europe, and is one of the largest mosques in a non-Muslim country. (wiki)
Many thanks to Dorota for this information. :-))
It was possibly built as early as in the 15th century by Bengal Sultanate and evidences suggest it could be either a jail or a tomb, but not a mosque, while it is more popular to be called as Mosque or Masjid.
The name Chika is also connected to bat as there are numerous bats inside the hall.
Taken in Gaur, Malda, West Bengal, India
Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Built in 1712. The wooden painted columns were added in 1917 to help support the sagging exterior roof. It served as a Friday mosque during the time when the emir of Bukhara was being subjugated under the Bolshevik Russian rule in the 1920s.
During my trip I have seen many wonderful mosques. This one in Edirne Turkey was one of the best, certainly the interior with the beautiful red carpet, and all the light, the ceiling etc. Everything was very well thought of and sophisticated.
I tried to get the cupola also in one shot, but that caused to much distortion, so you have to do with this shot!
20 September I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.
The Red Mosque is a building in the palace gardens at Schwetzingen. It was built under Prince-elector Charles-Theodore in the 18th century for the main reason that "Turkish style" was fashionable at the time. The architecture has certain elements which you wouldn't find in a real mosque and it was never intended for prayer but it later served religious purposes at various times.
la Mosquée neuve, Yeni Camii en turc, constitue l’une des plus imposantes et connues des Mosquées d’Istanbul. La construction de cette Mosquée impériale, qui commença en 1597,Il est à noter que ce fut l’épouse du sultan Murat III, la sultane Safiye, qui ordonna la construction de la mosquée Neuve. En 1660, un incendie détruisit une grande partie des structures de la Mosquée NeuveLes trvaux ont repris et la mosquée fut achevée en 1663
Elle se situe en effet sur la place d’Eminönü entre l’entrée du bazar égyptien, Misir Carsisi en turc, et le pont de Galata de l’autre côté
.Dans la Mosquée Neuve, une coupole principale, d’un diamètre de 17,5 mètres de 36 mètres de haut, est soutenue par quatre piliers dans une structure carré de 41 mètres de côtés.
De part et d’autre de cette coupole principale se trouvent des petites coupoles et des semi-coupoles. Des faïences d’Iznik, de couleur bleue, forment en ornement l’intérieur de la Mosquée Neuve
.A l’extérieur de la Mosquée Neuve, des coupoles et des semi-coupoles s’empilent. Deux minarets composés chacune de trois balcons surplombent la Mosquée. A proximité de celle-ci se trouve une cour ayant 39 mètres de côté.
Montage effectué à partir de clichés de l'album
www.flickr.com/photos/philippedaniele/albums/721576423018... ......
qui n'est qu'une sélection de ceux parus sur géo
The National Mosque of Malaysia, also known as Masjid Negara, is well-regarded as the nationwide symbol of Islam. Located within the Kuala Lumpur Lake Gardens, this blue-hued building houses a main prayer hall with 48 smaller domes, a 73-metre minaret and a 16-pointed star concrete main roof. Contemporary interpretations of traditional Islamic art and calligraphy, abstract shapes and geometric lattices are incorporated into its roofing and ironworks, while the walls of the Grand Hall are beautifully adorned with verses from the Koran.
Of the countries in Central Asia that I visited, Turkmenistan was the strangest and certainly the most oppressive that I have visited (by writing these words, It means that I presumably will never get an entrance visa anymore).
Although the people were friendly, especially in the capital Ashkabat people were cautious and often not willing to speak to us.
Ashkabat itself is a rather insane capital. Former president Niyazov started a building program that resulted in a complete new city center where all old building were (and are still) demolished and replaced by
grand buildings made of white marble, and with big boulevards (12 lanes wide) where hardly cars are driving. If you have a car it has to be white and clean. On every street corner you can see police etc. The city gives you an impression how old Rome might have looked around the Forum Romanum. Impressive it is, but with a rather poor population, you wonder if the oil and gas dollars couldn't have been spend a little bit better.
The image here is from a mosque that was built under Nyasov, and next to the mosque is the mausoleum that contains the body of Nyasov who died two years after the mosque was finished. The mosque itself is absolutely smashing, but it is somewhat strange when you see soldiers who guard the complex.
We met a few people from Turkmenistan who said the president who now is reigning is the best president they ever had. I am afraid I have my doubts about that, seeing all that I saw.
20 September I came back from my journey over a part of the Silk Road to and through Central Asia. 4 months of traveling through 14 countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran) before I flew home from Teheran. An impressive journey in countries that are extremely beautiful, with lovely and welcoming people and diverse cultures and history.
Intense traveling with more than 20000 kilometers in our mobile home on sometimes roads that hardly could be called that way. We saw many villages and cities (some wonderful, others very ugly), countries that are transforming from the old Soviet era into something more related to older cultures and the way people live, often funded by oil readily available around the Caspian sea. We saw the amazing mountains south of the Black Sea, the wonderful Caucasus, and the high mountains in the far east close to China with peaks over 7000 meter, and not to forget the (Bulgarian) Alps!
We crossed the great steppe of Kazakhstan. a drive of at least 5000 km, the remnants of lake Aral, once one of the biggest lakes of the world, saw a rocket launch from Baikonur (this little part is Russian owned), we crossed many high mountains passes, and drove the breathtaking canyon that comes from the Pamir, beginning at ca 4500 meter, and going down for ca. 400km to an altitude of 1300 meter, driving for 100's of kilometers along the Afghan border.
And then the numerous lakes with all sorts of different colors from deep cobalt blue to turquoise, and one rare spectacle in Turkmenistan where a gas crater is burning already for more than 40 years. And finally and certainly not the least to mention an enormous amount of wonderful, hospitable and welcoming people. The woman often dressed in wonderful dresses, and bringing a lot of color in the streets of almost of all countries we visited.
La mosquée Kuqa est la deuxième plus grande mosquée du Xinjiang , juste après la mosquée Id Kah à Kashgar . Fait de briques, il a été reconstruit après l'incendie de la mosquée d'origine en 1931. Dans son enceinte se trouve le seul tribunal religieux du Xinjiang. La mosquée Kuqa est la seule mosquée de Chine à avoir conservé le système de la chariya (tribunal islamique).
La première porte de la mosquée mesure 18,3 mètres de haut, construite en brique bleue. La mosquée est composée du minaret Xuanli, d'une grande salle, d'un tombeau inconnu, de la salle d'apprentissage des Écritures, du tribunal religieux, etc., couvrant une vaste superficie de 1 165 000 mètres carrés. La salle de culte de la mosquée mesure 1500 mètres carrés et peut accueillir 3000 personnes.
D'après diapositive.
With 95% of the population of Azerbaijan being Muslim I don’t suppose this should be too much of a surprise. This photo was taken from around the back of the mosque. It was busy with a steady stream of visitors including one bloke from the minibus I travelled upon.
Sultan Ahmed Mosque prayer hall
No special arrangements or tickets are required to enter the Blue Mosque outside of daily prayer times (see first link)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mosque,_Istanbul
Autumn in Europe 2025
والحمد لله الذي اناديه لكما شئت لحاجتي ، وأخلو به حيث شئت لسري ، بغير شفيع فيقضي
لي حاجتي . والحمد لله الذي ادعوه ولا أدعو غيره ولو دعوت غيره لم يستجب لي دعائي ، والحمد لله الذي ارجوه
ولا أرجو غيره ولو رجوت غيره لأخلف رجائي ، والحمد لله الذي وكلني إليه فأكرمني ولم يكلني إلى الناس فيهينوني
والحمد لله الذي تحبب إلي وهو غني عني ، والحمد لله الذي يحلم عني حتى كأني لا ذنب لي ، فربي أحمد شئ عندي
وأحق بحمدى
All Praise is for Allah whom I call upon with my needs whenever I wish, and I entrust Him with my secrets without an intercessor, and He grants me my wishes. All Praise is for Allah whom I do not plead to anyone but Him, for if I pleaded to others, they would not grant me. All Praise is for Allah who dignified me by becoming the Disposer of my affairs, instead of making me rely on others who then would humiliate me. All Praise is for Allah who endeared me even though He is not in need of me. All Praise is for Allah who treats me with clemency, just as if I have no sin. So my Lord is the most praised by me of all, and most worthy of my praise.
مقطع من دعاء أبو حمزة الثمالي
This is the lights of The Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE
The mosque was initially built in 1712, which is one of the last and finest of Bukhara's major buildings prior to the modern era. Those long wooden Iwans were added much later in 1912.
he mosque is a curious hybrid design reflecting Bukhara's harsh climate—stifling heat in summer months, bone-chilling cold in the winter, with periods of pleasant weather in between.
Taken in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.