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In many mosques, especially the early congregational mosques, the prayer hall has the hypostyle form. [3] One of the finest examples of the hypostyle-plan mosques is the Great Mosque of Kairouan (also called the Mosque of Uqba) in the city of Kairouan, Tunisia. [4] [5]
The Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia (Turkish: Anadolu'nun Orta Çağ Dönemi Ahşap Hipostil Camileri) are a World Heritage Site consisting of five Seljuk mosques in Anatolia dating back to the late 13th and mid-14th centuries.
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.
Most early hypostyle mosques had flat roofs on prayer halls, which required the use of numerous columns and supports. [51] One of the most notable hypostyle mosques is the Great Mosque of Cordoba in Spain, the building being supported by over 850 columns. [74] Frequently, hypostyle mosques have outer arcades so that visitors can enjoy the shade ...
The hypostyle mosque constructed by Muhammad in Medina served as a model for early mosque design throughout the Islamic world. [10] Umayyad religious architecture was the earliest expression of Islamic art on a grand scale [163] and the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus reproduced the hypostyle model at a monumental scale. [164]
The al-Aqsa Mosque has seven aisles of hypostyle naves with several additional small halls to the west and east of the southern section of the building. [102] There are 121 stained glass windows in the mosque from the Abbasid and Fatimid eras.
The hypostyle hall, was two bays deep along the sides, four bays deep on the side opposite the qibla (the northwest), and six bays deep on the qibla side where the main prayer hall was. The aisle leading the mosque's mihrab was slightly wider than the other aisles. [3]
Hypostyle interior of the mosque (abandoned) in 2006. This is a square shaped, hypostyle mosque, meaning it is a flat roofed structure supported by columns. [6] Today, the mosque lacks most of its defining features, including its dome, minarets, roof, and most decoration; but at over 10,000 square meters and 12 meters tall, the impression of its grandeur remains.