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The Seljuk Minarets |
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By: FSTC Limited, Mon 14 April, 2003
The Seljuk mosques took a form of minaret which was substantially different from that of North Africa. The adoption of the cylindrical form, instead of the usual square, with tapered shafts often broken by balconies was an Iranian preference later expanded to most of Muslim Asia.
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The Seljuk Kiosk Mosque and General Plan |
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By: FSTC Limited, Mon 14 April, 2003
Another Seljuk innovation in the plan of the mosque appeared in what Andre Godard called the Mosque Kiosque. This usually small edifice is characterised by its unusual plan which consists of a domed hall, standing on arches, with three open sides giving it the Kiosk character.
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The Great Ummayad Mosque |
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By: FSTC Limited, Sun 09 March, 2003
The Great Ummayyad Mosque remains one of great symbols of the glorious period of Muslim civilisation and its pride. It is a master piece of architectural ingenuity having a decisive influence on the maturity of mosque architecture all over the Muslim World.
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Al-Mutawwaqil Mosque |
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By: FSTC Limited, Sun 02 March, 2003
In the ruins of the city Samara (modern day Iraq), the Al-Mutawwaqil Mosque (built 849AD) still provides evidence of early Abbasid architecture. For centuries it remained the world's largest mosque holding an estimated 80,000 worshipers.
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Ibn Tulun Mosque |
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By: FSTC Limited, Tue 18 February, 2003
Ibn Tulun Mosque is a rare example where Europeans openly admitted its influence on the development of many features of their architecture. Elements such as the pointed arch, the pier, and wall battlements formed the essential ingredients of the birth of Gothic architecture, which led Europe to the Renaissance.
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A'mr Mosque |
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By: FSTC Limited, Mon 17 February, 2003
In year 642AD, A'mr Ibn Al-Aas laid the foundations of the first and oldest Mosque in Egypt and Africa. Measuring 25 meters long by 15 meters wide it was a simple structure and imitated the Prophet's mosque in Medina.
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The Taj Mahal |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 December, 2002
A white marble tomb built in 1631-48 in Agra, seat of the Mugal Empire by Shah Jehan for his wife, Arjuman Banu Begum, the monument sums up many of the formal themes that have played through Islamic architecture.
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Qarawiyin Mosque |
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By: Quoted from R. Landau, Sun 21 July, 2002
Almost entirely enclosed by narrow alleyways, the mosque of Qarawiyin, [in Fes] like many an ancient European cathedral hemmed in by barrack like houses, is well-nigh unnoticeable from the outside.
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The Umayyad Mosque |
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By: Quoted from W. Durant, Sat 20 July, 2002
The Umayyad Mosque, Damascus. Muslim travellers unanimously describe it as a magnificent structure in Islam and the Abbassid caliphs al-Madi and al-Mamun no lovers of the Umayyads ranked it above all other buildings on the earth.
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Morphological and functional categories of the Mosque |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 17 January, 2002
The mosque plan was developed through a process of change and modification resulting in the emergence of four main forms reflecting the main periods of Islamic attainment.
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