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English: Floor map of Uqba mosque in Kairouan - Tunisia Français : Plan de la Grande Mosquée de Kairouan - Tunisie العربية: رسم بياني للمسقط الأفقي لجامع عقبة بن نافع بالقيروان - تونس
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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.
The Green Mosque is based on an inverted T-plan and is a two-story, cube-shaped building with an extension on the south side. The mosque has a vestibule at the entrance leading up a short staircase to a central prayer hall. [17] This stairway has four marble cubby-holes (Turkish: papuçluk) on each side for slippers. These architectural ...
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 total of four minarets, arranged around the four corners of the courtyard. Its southwestern minaret was the tallest Ottoman minaret built up to that time and features three balconies, from which the mosque's name derives. [11] The mosque was heavily damaged by an earthquake in 1752 and partly reconstructed. [12]
Anatolian Seljuk mosques included more conservative hypostyle constructions alongside less traditional floor plans. An important hypostyle example is the Alaeddin Mosque of Konya (built between 1156 and 1235, with later additions).
Interior view of the hypostyle prayer hall in the Mosque of Uqba (Great Mosque of Kairouan) The Great Mosque of Kairouan (Arabic: جامع القيروان الأكبر), also known as the Mosque of Uqba (جامع عقبة بن نافع), is a mosque situated in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Kairouan, Tunisia and is one of the largest Islamic monuments in North Africa.