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Hassan Pasha Mosque in Kos, seen from the Ancient Agora archaeological site.
The rich history of Kos has vividly left its mark on the architecture of the islands. That is the case with the mosques of Kos Town, strong reminders of the Ottoman rule on the island, that lasted for about four centuries, from 1523 to 1912. Today, two Ottoman mosques survive time in Kos Town and they can be seen in the centre of the city.
The Loggia Mosque also known as the Hassan Pasha Mosque, located at Hippocrates Plane Tree Square in Kos, was founded by the Turkish admiral Ghazi Hassan Pasha in 1786.
Ancient architectural elements from Roman remains have been incorporated into the fabric of the mosque and its minaret, and the mosque was possibly built on the location of a Byzantine temple of St George.
The three storey building is locked and unused and still bears the marks of wartime bombardment, especially in the tracery of the upper windows. The ground floor is taken up by several shops.
The Floating Mosque or Tengku Tengah Zaharah is the first real floating mosque in Malaysia. It is situated in Kuala Ibai Lagoon near the estuary of Kuala Ibai River, 4 km from Kuala Terengganu Town. Construction began in 1993 and finished in 1995. The mosque was officially opened in July 1995 by Almarhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah, the late Sultan of Terengganu. The mosque combines modern and Moorish architecture; incorporating the use of marble, ceramics, mosaic works and bomanite paving. The white structure of the mosque covers an area of roughly 5 acres and can accommodate up to 2000 attendees at a time.
The mosque was built on the site of the pre-lslamic Moh temple mentioned above. Excavations have revealed the fact that even under the Samanids there was a six-pier mosque, which apparently was also domed. However, it was rebuilt substantially in the twelfth century; the floor level was upgraded and the main facade received a new design that survives with little damage only. By the sixteenth century, the thickness of cultural layers had increased so much that mosque seemed to sink deep into the soil and its facade was unearthed only as a result of excavations carried out in the 1930s.
The Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: بادشاھی مسجد) or the 'King's Mosque' in Lahore, commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671 and completed in 1673, is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world. Epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era, it is Lahore's most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction.
The Qolşärif Mosque located in Kazan Kremlin (pronounced [kɔlʃæˈriːf], also spelled Qol Sharif, Qol Sherif)
The Selimiye Mosque (Turkish: Selimiye Camii) is a mosque in the city of Edirne, Turkey. The mosque was commissioned by Sultan Selim II and was built by architect Mimar Sinan between 1568 and 1574. It was considered by Sinan to be his masterpiece and is one of the highest achievements of Islamic architecture.
This grand mosque stands at the center of a külliye (complex of a hospital, school, library and/or baths around a mosque) which comprises a medrese (Islamic academy teaches both Islamic and Scientific lessons), a dar-ül hadis (Al-Hadith school), a timekeeper's room and an arasta (row of shops). It also contains a Bayezid II Külliye Health Museum, now a museum. In this mosque Sinan employed an octagonal supporting system that is created through eight pillars incised in a square shell of walls. The four semi domes at the corners of the square behind the arches that spring from the pillars, are intermediary sections between the huge encompassing dome (31.25m diameter with spherical profile) and the walls.While conventional mosques were limited by a segmented interior, Sinan's effort at Edirne was a structure that made it possible to see the mihrab from any location within the mosque. Surrounded by four of the tallest pencil-shaped minarets, the Mosque of Selim II has a grand dome atop it. Around the rest of the mosque were many additions: libraries, schools, hospices, baths, soup kitchens for the poor, markets, hospitals, and a cemetery. These annexes were aligned axially and grouped, if possible. In front of the splendid mosque sits a rectangular court with an area equal to that of the mosque. The innovation however, comes not in the size of the building, but from the organization of its interior. The mihrab is pushed back into an apse-like alcove with a space with enough depth to allow for window illumination from three sides. This has the effect of making the tile panels of its lower walls sparkler with natural light. The amalgamation of the main hall forms a fused octagon with the dome-covered square. Formed by eight massive dome supports, the octagon, is pierced by four half dome covered corners of the square. The beauty resulting from the conformity of geometric shapes engulfed in each other was the culmination of Sinan's life long search for a unified interior space.
At the Bulgarian siege of Edirne in 1915, the dome of the mosque is hit by Bulgarian artillery. Since the dome is built extremely strong, the mosque survived the assult with only some damages at the coating of the dome. With Atatürk's order, it has not been restored since then, to warn the next generations.
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, aka Blue Mosque at night. Istanbul, Turkey.
Taken with a Rokinon 8mm fisheye for Nikon on a Sony A6000. Straighten in post processing.
Floating Mosque in Jeddah bears testimony of the religion of Islam in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the marvelous sacred destinations in Jeddah. The architectural beauty with the huge decorated prayer space and the elegant rooftop gives a unique semblance to the mosque. A soothing ambiance is created inside the mosque. The serene ambiance in the interior of the mosque helps in meditating during the prayer. Praying is a sheer pleasure in this intricately designed gleaming white mosque. Not only the Muslims but people from all religions across the globe make it a point to visit the Floating Mosque in Jeddah at least once during their stay at the city.
A l’intérieur de la Mosquée Bleue, l’immense salle de prière est couverte par un grand nombre de tapis . Portée par quatre piliers imposants, la coupole principale est de 23 mètres de diamètre et élevée à 43 mètres de hauteur. En complément de cette coupole, la Mosquée Bleue comporte d’autres coupoles plus petites ainsi que des demi-dômes.
Les décorations intérieures de la Mosquée Bleue sont de toute beauté. En effet, plus de 260 fenêtres et 20 000 carreaux de faïence bleue d’Iznik composent la Mosquée Bleue. Autre pièce centrale de l’intérieur de la Mosquée Bleue est le mirhab, niche indiquant la direction de la Mecque vers laquelle les musulmans doivent se tourner pour prier. Le mirhab de la Mosquée Bleue d’Istanbul est fait de marbre blanc provenant de Marmara.
Preparing for prayer
There are approximately 350 mosques in Fez’s medina, spread among the different districts.
This is the Al-Qarawiyin Mosque, arguably the world's oldest university. And surprisingly, founded by a woman, Fatima Fihriyya!
For over 1200 years, the Al-Qarawiyin Mosque (or al-Karaouine) has been one of the leading spiritual and educational centers of the Muslim World.
With a history dating back to the 9th century, this mosque and university have been the selected congregation space for various Muslim saints and scholars throughout the centuries.
Although some mosques are open to tourists, I am not sure if one can enter any Mosque in Morocco. We respectively stayed outside.
Finally! Ive been able to upload a photo to flickr. There have been a few technical issues between macs and windows, and software, and... anyways. I've been forced away from photoshop and lightroom and only have access to mac photo editor - so the photos won't look as sharp as colourful or whatever, but hopefully will force me to focus a bit more on lines and composition.
So this photo is from a dirty Ayasofya window looking to the blue mosque, and the domes of ayasofya. I wouldn't have discovered it if i hadn't been on my tiptoes and holding my camera up above me to get this shot. I really like the lines moving from right to left, to right again and then the centre with the three towers in the distance.
The Blue Mosque is an 18th Century Shi'a mosque in Yerevan, Armenia. It was commissioned by Huseyn Ali Khan, the khan of the Iranian Erivan Khanate. It is one of the oldest extant structures in central Yerevan and the most significant structure from the city's Iranian period. It is today the only active mosque in Armenia.
The mosque was secularized by the Soviets in the 1920s. Initially a "creative space for Armenian artists, writers, poets, and intelligentsia, facilitating the production of a new cultural and aesthetic order for socialist Armenia", by the 1930s first the Anti-Religious Museum and subsequently the Museum of Antifascism were housed at the mosque. From 1936 until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the mosque housed the Museum of Natural Sciences, which included a planetarium inside the main prayer hall and the Yerevan History Museum.
In the late 1980s, during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the mosque did not sustain any damages because it was considered to be Persian, not Azeri. Following Armenia's independence, the building was renovated with the support from the Iranian government and again started operating as a mosque. The restoration has been described as "structurally necessary but aesthetically ambiguous." A second bout of reconstruction was completed as recently as 2011.
Since restoration, it has become a religious and cultural center for the Iranians residing in Armenia and Iranian tourists visiting Armenia. The Iranian cultural center inside the mosque complex attracts young Armenians seeking to learn Persian.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
It is the largest mosque in the United Arab Emirates. The design of the Sheikh Zayed Mosque has been inspired by Persian, Mughal and Moorish mosque architecture, particularly the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan and the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco being direct influences. The dome layout and floorplan of the mosque was inspired by the Badshahi Mosque and the architecture was inspired by Persian, Mughal and Moorish design. Its archways are quintessentially Moorish and its minarets classically Arab. The design of the mosque can be best described as a fusion of Arab, Persian, Mughal and Moorish architecture.
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I realized my old dream and visited the legendary, charming and amazing city of Istanbul. Among the vast amount of interesting sights I would like to highlight the excellent Sultanahmet Mosque with its six minarets. It is a true miracle, standing in the large megapolis. Just take a look!
The Great mosque (Cami-i Kebir – Ulu Cami) was built in 1835-1836 by Seyit Elhac Mehmet Agha, the Turkish Governor.
It is a two-storey building with large windows, and has five arches in front and one on its left flank. The interior of the mosque is divided into three parts by two rows of columns, each row consisting of five round columns connected to the walls by arches.
At the north-west corner of its front courtyard there is an octagonal fountain built in 1748 by Ebubekir Pasha, then Governor of Cyprus, who constructed chains of wells and aqueducts in the Arpera region eight miles east * of the town to supply fresh drinking water to Larnaca.
La photo a été prise de la rue principale dont on aperçoit le haut des arcades des boutiques.
La mosquée Kalon ou Kalan, ce qui signifie « grande mosquée », est l'ancienne mosquée principale de Boukhara. Elle a été désaffectée au culte en 1924. Inscrite au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco, comme l'ensemble du centre historique de la ville, elle a été construite au début du XVIe sièclesous les Chaybanides à l'emplacement d'une ancienne mosquée du Vendredi du XIIe siècle. Elle pouvait accueillir douze mille personnes. C'est la mosquée d'Asie Centrale la plus importante par ses dimensions après celle de Bibi-Khanoum à Samarcande. Elle se trouve en face de la médersa Mir-i Arab. Elle a été restaurée par l'Unesco.
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The cathedral Mosque Kul Sharif. Kul Sharif was well known at the last period of the Kazan Khanate. He was the leader of the Muslims clergy and the supreme seid before the fall of the Kazan Khanate in 1552. It is known that seids were the descendants of the prophet Muhamed...
The Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque) in Istanbul, completed in 1616, is a masterpiece of Ottoman architecture. Commissioned by Sultan Ahmed I, it blends Islamic and Byzantine styles and is renowned for its interior adorned with over 20,000 blue Iznik tiles, giving it the nickname “Blue Mosque.” Still functioning as a mosque, it remains a key religious site and major tourist attraction, symbolizing Istanbul’s rich history and cultural fusion.
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The Cambridge Central Mosque is Europe's first eco-friendly mosque and the first purpose-built mosque within the city of Cambridge, England.
In 2009, Marks Barfield Architects won the competition with their calm, oasis concept of a British Mosque for the 21st century – Europe’s first eco-mosque.
The £23m project, opened its doors in April 2019 and since then has won a host of architectural accolades, including Architect’s Journal (AJ) Best Community and Faith Project 2019, Brick Development Association (BDA) Best Public Building 2019 and four Structural Timber Awards 2019, including Project of the Year. More recently, Cambridge Mosque has won RIBA East Project Architect of the Year, Building of the Year, Client of the Year and Regional Award and was shortlisted for the 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize.