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The Kubelie Mosque or Kapllan Beu Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e Kubelies) is a historic mosque in Kavajë, Albania. This mosque was originally built here in 1735 under the Ottomans by Kapllan Beu. The Old Mosque (Xhamija e Vjetër), stood on the main street of the city, about 70m to the east of the current one. [1] Old Kubelie mosque
The Kaaba and Masjid al-Haram depicted on a talismanic shirt, 16th or early 17th century. The Qur'an contains several verses regarding the origin of the Kaaba. It states that the Kaaba was the first House of Worship for mankind, and that it was built by Ibrahim and Ismail on Allah's instructions: [39] [40] [41]
Ottoman Albania was a period in Albanian history from the Ottoman conquest in the late 15th century to the Albanian declaration of Independence and official secession from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. The Ottomans first entered Albania in 1385 upon the invitation of the Albanian noble Karl Thopia to suppress the forces of the noble Balša II ...
The fortress was built in 1780 under Ottoman rule (later Hejaz vilayet) to protect the Kaaba in Mecca from bandits and invaders. [1] [2] The fort covered some 23,000 m 2 (250,000 sq ft) on Bulbul Mountain [3] (a spur of Jebel Kuda) overlooking the Masjid al-Haram from the south.
The basic design of the Şehzade Mosque, with its symmetrical dome and four semi-dome layout, proved popular with later architects and was repeated in classical Ottoman mosques after Sinan (e.g. the Sultan Ahmed I Mosque, the New Mosque at Eminönü, and the 18th-century reconstruction of the Fatih Mosque).
The tradition of covering the Kaaba predates the emergence of Islam, with various Yemeni textiles composing the draping. [3] According to Ibn Hisham, King Tubba Abu Karib As'ad of the Himyarite Kingdom, who would later become a revered figure in Islamic traditions, clothed Kaaba for the first time during the rule of the Jurhum tribe of Mecca in the early fifth century CE after learning about ...
During the era of Ottoman rule, the territory of modern Saudi Arabia was divided between the following entities: Ottoman provinces and emirates: Sharifate of Mecca (968–1916; Ottoman control 1517–1803; 1841–1916) Egypt Eyalet (1517–1701; 1813–40) Jeddah Eyalet (1701–1813; 1840–1872) Hejaz vilayet (1872–1918) Lahsa Eyalet (1560 ...