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Floor plan of the Great Mosque of Kairouan (c. 836, with some minor additions later) One of the most important Aghlabid monuments is the Great Mosque of Kairouan, which was completely rebuilt in 836 by the emir Ziyadat Allah I, although various additions and repairs were effected later which complicate the chronology of its construction.
As the mosque's prayer area is aligned with the qibla (direction of Mecca) but the street outside is not, the mosque's external façade has a different alignment from the rest of the structure and the entrance involves a bending passage from the street to the mosque interior. [3] The floor plan is also irregular and asymmetrical due to the ...
Floor plan and elevation of the Bayezid II Mosque in Istanbul (from drawings by Cornelius Gurlitt) After Mehmed II, the reign of Bayezid II (1481–1512) is again marked by extensive architectural patronage, of which the two most outstanding and influential examples are the Bayezid II Complex in Edirne and the Bayezid II Mosque in Istanbul. [134]
The mosque has a rectangular floor plan measuring about 57 metres wide and 50 metres long [6] (or 59 by 51 metres according to another source [9]), divided between a courtyard and a prayer hall. While the floor plan is not very different from that of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, the structure of the building is very different.
Plan_grande_mosquee_kairouan.jpg: Collection personnelle de Bertrand Bouret / *derivative work: Habib M'henni This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape . This is a retouched picture , which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version.
The Üç Şerefeli Mosque is one of the most important mosques of this period of early Ottoman architecture. [3] [4] It has a very different design from preceding mosques. The floor plan is nearly square but is divided between a rectangular courtyard and a rectangular prayer hall.
The minaret and courtyard of the mosque, dating from 1236. The mosque was founded by the Almoravid emir Yusuf ibn Tashfin in 1082 when he founded the city of Tagrart (present-day Tlemcen), an extension of the earlier Idrisid-era city of Agadir. [2] [3] [1] [4] However, the mosque was renovated and decorated by his son and successor, Ali ibn Yusuf.
The mosque had a rectangular floor plan aligned northwest to southeast, in accordance with the qibla (direction of prayer). This orientation is notably different from the southern qibla orientation of the much older Great Mosque of Córdoba, which reflects that conceptions of the qibla changed over time in this part of the Islamic world.