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The Hamza Bey Mosque (Greek: Χαμζά Μπέη Τζαμί, from Turkish: Hamza Bey Camii) is a historical Ottoman-era mosque on the Aegean island of Rhodes, in southeastern Greece. It is one of the smaller and simpler mosques on the island. Like most mosques in Rhodes today with the exception of Ibrahim Pasha Mosque, it is not open for worship.
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 first mosque was a structure built by Muhammad in Medina in 622, right after his Hijrah (migration) from Mecca, which corresponds to the site of the present-day Mosque of the Prophet (al-Masjid an-Nabawi). [10] [9] It is usually described as his house, but may have been designed to serve as a community center from the beginning. [10]
The courtyard (sahn) of a mosque normally precedes and gives access to the interior prayer hall that stands on the qibla side (the side corresponding to the direction of prayer). [ 7 ] [ 1 ] Most mosque courtyards ( sahn ) contained a public fountain where Muslims performed wudu , a ritual ablution (purification) required before prayer . [ 8 ]
1421–1451) marked an important architectural development in the form of the Üç Şerefeli Mosque, built in Edirne from 1437 to 1447. [40] [41] It has a very different design from earlier mosques, with a nearly square floor plan divided between a rectangular courtyard and a rectangular prayer hall. The open-air courtyard has a central ...
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.
Park51 (originally named Cordoba House) was a development originally envisioned as a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The developers hoped to promote an interfaith dialogue within the greater community.
Free plan, in the architecture world, refers to the ability to have a floor plan with non-load bearing walls and floors by creating a structural system that holds the weight of the building by ways of an interior skeleton of load bearing columns. The building system carries only its columns, or skeleton, and each corresponding ceiling.