Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The White Minaret is a stone minaret beside the Aqsa Mosque in Qadian, Punjab. It was constructed under the direction of the Indian religious leader Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. It serves as a lighthouse symbolising the ultimate pre-eminence of Islam. [1] The minaret has three stages, 92 steps, and a total height of about 105 ft or 32 m.
Al-Muqaddasi visited the minaret in 985 when Damascus was under Abbasid control and described it as "recently built". The upper segment was constructed in 1174. [66] This minaret is used by the muezzin for the call to prayer (adhan) and there is a spiral staircase of 160 stone steps that lead to the muezzin's calling position. [131]
Some time after the appearance of the Dajjal, ʿĪsā will descend on a white minaret to the east of Damascus, [7] thought to be the Minaret of Isa located on the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. He will descend from the heavens wearing two garments lightly dyed with saffron and his hands resting on the shoulders of two angels. [8]
The tallest minaret of this era, the Minaret of Jam, in a remote area of present-day Afghanistan, was built c. 1175 by the Ghurids and features elaborate brick decoration and inscriptions. [39]: 333 The Qutb Minar in Delhi, the most monumental minaret in India, was built in 1199 and was designed on the same model as the Minaret of Jam. [3]
The Sinan Pasha Mosque is built with an alternating course of black and white stone. In addition to the mosque itself is a madrasa an ablution fountain. [2]The arched entrance of the western mosque portal is topped by a glazed tile panel composed of floral motifs above the marble panel with Arabic inscriptions anchored by square mosaic panels on both sides.
In the early hours Friday morning, the 11-meter-high (33-foot-high) minaret was razed to the ground, with the Iraqis are furious over their government's demolition of a minaret that stood for ...
Yadgar Mosque, the "first" mosque of Rabwah. Rabwah. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community established itself in Rabwah on September 30, 1948. [4] Rabwah was a town founded and created by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the time of its Second Caliph, Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad and was named ‘Rabwah’ by the Ahmadiyya Missionary Jalal-ud-Din Shams.
The city was viewed as a holy one because of the remains in the Umayyad Mosque. Damascus kept this role during the Ottoman rule (1516-1918), and was referred to as the "Gateway to Hajj". [5] Every year approximately 30,000 pilgrims gathered outside the western walls of the Old Town, from where they started their journey.