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Some scholars refer to the early hypostyle mosque with courtyard as the "Arab plan" or "Arab-type" mosque. [ 68 ] [ 10 ] Such mosques were constructed mostly under the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties; subsequently, however, the simplicity of this type of plan limited the opportunities for further development, and as a result, these mosques ...
The floor plan of a mosque is also aligned with the direction of prayer, sometimes even at odds with the orientation of the streets around it. [54] Today it is standard practice that the direction of prayer is the line marking the shortest distance between oneself and the Kaaba in Mecca.
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The Kasbah Mosque (Arabic: مسجد القصبة), also known as the Moulay al-Yazid Mosque, [a] is a historic mosque in Marrakesh, Morocco. It was originally built by the Almohad ruler Yaqub al-Mansur in 1185–1190 CE. It is located in the Kasbah district, the city's former citadel, near the site of its historic royal palaces.
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The mosque's floor plan is a slightly irregular quadrilateral due to the fact that its northern wall corresponds to the former southern wall of the first mosque and its different orientation. The current mosque is roughly 90 metres (300 ft) wide, 57 metres (187 ft) long on its west side, and 66 metres (217 ft) long on its east side. [ 56 ]
The Great Mosque of Damascus served as a model for later mosques. [7] Similar layouts, scaled down, have been found in a mosque excavated in Tiberias, on the Sea of Galillee, and in a mosque in the palace of Khirbat al-Minya. [6] The plan of the White Mosque at Ramla differs in shape, and the prayer hall is divided into only two aisles.