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Name Images Location Year/century Remarks Al-Attar Mosque: Tripoli: 1350 Al-Burtasi Mosque: Tripoli: before 1381 Fakhreddine Mosque: Deir el Qamar: 1493: The oldest mosque in Mount Lebanon.
Most visible site in the city. Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan Egypt: Cairo: 1356 T Mosque of Al-Hakim Egypt: Cairo: 985 A Al-Azhar Mosque Egypt: Cairo: 969 A National mosque: Blue Mosque Egypt: Cairo: 1347 A Al Hussein Mosque Egypt: Cairo: 1154 T Mosque of Ibn Tulun Egypt: Cairo: 876-879 U Abu Haggag Mosque Egypt: Luxor: 11th Century A El ...
Al-Azhar Mosque (Arabic: الجامع الأزهر, romanized: al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit. 'The Resplendent Congregational Mosque', Egyptian Arabic : جامع الأزهر , romanized: Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar ), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar , is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic Islamic core of the city .
The ribbed domes of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba served as models for later mosque buildings in the Islamic West of Al-Andalus and the Maghreb. At around 1000 AD, the Bab al-Mardum Mosque in Toledo was constructed with a similar, eight-ribbed dome, surrounded by eight other ribbed domes of varying design. [90]
Baalbeck is counted as one of the Roman treasures in Lebanon, and is home to many ancient Roman temples built at the end of the third millennium B.C. [contradictory] [citation needed] The city was referred to as the city of the sun (Heliopolis) by the Greeks. [1] The temples have faced theft, earthquakes and civil wars and wear.
It is an architectural design element in Islamic architecture and Islamic garden design. [3] A riwaq often serves as the transition space between interior and outdoor spaces. As portico or arcade structure, it provides shade and adjustment to sunlight in hot climates, and cover from rain in any locale.
Al-Azhar al-Sharif is an Islamic scientific body and the largest religious institution in Egypt. Its headquarters is located in the building of the Sheikhdom of Al-Azhar in the center of the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The history of the establishment of the Al-Azhar Mosque dates back to the year 970 by the Fatimid Caliph Al-Muizz Li-Din Allah.
Interior of the Mosque of Abu al-Dhahab in Cairo (c. 1774) One of the notable mosques from this period is the Mosque of Abu al-Dhahab (c. 1774), erected next to al-Azhar Mosque. It is similar to the older Sinan Pasha Mosque in form and mixes elements inspired by various sources.