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Prayer in the Mosque is a mid-19th century painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts the interior of an Egyptian mosque in which worshipers are praying. The orientalist painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] [2]
Evening Prayer in the Sahara (1863) by Gustave Guillaumet Evening Prayer in the Sahara ( French : Prière du soir dans le Sahara ) is an 1863 painting by Gustave Guillaumet . [ 1 ] Executed in oil on canvas and measuring 1.37m by 3.005m, it is one of the most celebrated desert paintings in the Musée d’Orsay .
Referring to characteristic traditions across a wide range of lands, periods, and genres, Islamic art is a concept used first by Western art historians in the late 19th century. [2] Public Islamic art is traditionally non-representational, except for the widespread use of plant forms, usually in varieties of the spiralling arabesque.
The Hajj (Arabic: حَجّ) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, [7] the holiest city for Muslims.Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and can support their family during their absence.
T. W. Arnold (1864–1930), an early historian of Islamic art, stated that "Islam has never welcomed painting as a handmaid of religion as both Buddhism and Christianity have done. Mosques have never been decorated with religious pictures, nor has a pictorial art been employed for the instruction of the heathen or for the edification of the ...
A miniature from the Umayyad period portraying a mosque and a garden c. 690 AD, from the Great Mosque of Sanaa's manuscripts. Islamic miniatures are small paintings on paper, usually book or manuscript illustrations but also sometimes separate artworks, intended for muraqqa albums.
Sikh art, also known as the Sikh School [1], is the artwork created by or associated with Sikhs and Sikhism.Sikh artwork exists in many forms, such as miniature, oil, and watercolour paintings, murals, and wood carvings.
A musalla (Arabic: مصلى, romanized: muṣallā) is a space apart from a mosque, mainly used for prayer in Islam². [1] The word is derived from the verb صلى ( ṣallā ), meaning "to pray". It is traditionally used for twice-yearly Eid prayers ( ʿĪd al-Fiṭr and ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā ) and for funeral prayers as per the Sunnah [ 2 ] .