Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The al-Hussein Mosque[ 1][ 2] or al-Husayn Mosque, [ 3][ 4] also known as the Mosque of al-Imam al-Husayn[ 4] ( Arabic: مسجد الإمام ٱلحُسين) and the Mosque of Sayyidna al-Husayn, [ 5][ 6] is a mosque and mausoleum of Husayn ibn Ali, originally built in 1154, and then later reconstructed in 1874. [ 7] The mosque is located in ...
Unlike other tombs in Cairo, Kujuk's mausoleum, which predates the mosque, is not aligned according to the qibla ("orientation with Mecca") and instead is aligned with the street. This structure is the principal feature unique to other major mosques in Egypt. [1] Above the prayer hall sits a brick one-bay dome carried on four brick squinches. A ...
The church. The church is dedicated to Sergius and Bacchus, who were soldier-saints martyred during the 4th century in Syria by the Roman Emperor Maximian . The most interesting feature is the crypt where Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus are said to have rested. The crypt is 10 meters deep and, when Nile levels are high, is often flooded.
The short prayer can only be said between noon and sunset, while the medium prayer must be said three times during the day: once between sunrise and noon, once between noon and sunset, and once in the two hours following sunset. [51] The long prayer is not bound by a fixed prayer time. The text of these prayers is taken from the writings of the ...
In the practice of Christianity, canonical hours mark the divisions of the day in terms of fixed times of prayer at regular intervals. A book of hours, chiefly a breviary, normally contains a version of, or selection from, such prayers. [ 1][ 2] In the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, canonical hours are also called officium, since it refers ...
135,000. Dome (s) 1 (world's heaviest dome) Minaret (s) 2. Egypt's Islamic Cultural Center, which houses Masjid Misr or the Grand Mosque, is a religious and architectural landmark located in the New Administrative Capital in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. [1] The center covers an area of 250,000 square meters, and can accommodate 131,000 people.
Northwest. Dome dia. (outer) ca. 15 m [1] Minaret (s) 1. c.1800 sketch. The Sinan Pasha Mosque ( Arabic: مسجد سنان باشا) is a mosque in the Bulaq district in Cairo. It was established by the governor of Cairo Koca Sinan Pasha around 1571. When the mosque was built the site was on the Nile shore which has since shifted westward. [1]
The Liturgy of the Hours ( Latin: Liturgia Horarum ), Divine Office (Latin: Officium Divinum ), or Opus Dei ("Work of God") are a set of Catholic prayers comprising the canonical hours, [ a] often also referred to as the breviary, [ b] of the Latin Church. The Liturgy of the Hours forms the official set of prayers "marking the hours of each day ...