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Goharshad Masjid is a famous Masjid in Razavi Khorasan
province of Iran. It was built by the orders of Goharshad,
the wife of Shah Rukh of the Timurid Dynasty in 1418
CE and by the architect Ghavameddin Shirazi. The Masjid
underwent some renovations during the Safavid and Qajar
era. It has 4 iwans and a courtyard measuring 50 X 55
meters, as well as several Shabestans.
Al-Azhar
University (al-Azhar al-Shareef, "the Noble Azhar"),
is a premier Egyptian institution of higher learning,
world-renowned for its position as a center of Islamic
scholarship and education. It was built by the Shia
Fatimid Dynasty (909-1171) who established Cairo as
their capital. It is connected to Al-Azhar mosque in
Old Cairo, Al-Azhar ( in Arabic: the most flourished
and shining) was so called either because it was surrounded
by great glittering places, or as a hopeful disposition,
or after the name of Sayeda Fatima Al-Zahra', daughter
of the Prophet Mohammed. The mosque was built in two
years from 969 AD, the year in which its foundation
was laid. The school of theology (Madrasah) connected
with it was founded in 988 AD. Studies began in Al-Azhar
in Ramadan by October 975 AD, when Chief Justice Abul
Hasan Ali ibn Al-No'man started teaching the book "Al-Ikhtisar",
on the Shiite Jurisprudence. It became a Sunni school
towards the end of the Middle Ages, an orientation it
retains to this day. It is the oldest operating universities
in the world.
The
Emperor's Mosque is an important mosque in Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mosque is named after the
Sultan Suleiman I.
Hagia Sophia, an Eastern Orthodox church converted into
a Masjid on the day of the Fall of Constantinople. Now
it is a museum..
The
Sultan Hassan Mosque and Madrasa (School) is considered
stylistically the most compact and unified of all Cairo
monuments. It is one of the masterpieces of Mamluk architecture.
The building was commissioned by Sultan Hassan bin Mohammad
bin Qala'oun in 1356 AD as a mosque and religious school
for all four juristic branches of Sunni Islam. It was
designed so that each of the four schools of thought
- Shafi, Maliki, Hanafi and Hanbali - has its own area
while sharing the mosque.
The Sultan Ahmed Masjid / Blue Masjid in Istanbul, Turkey
with its tall,
slender minarets is considered a classic example of
Ottoman architecture.
The Masjid Negara is the national Masjid of Malaysia,
located in Kuala Lumpur. It has a capacity of 15,000
people and is situated among 13 acres of beautiful gardens.
The original structure was designed by a three-person
team from the Public Works Department - UK architect
Howard Ashley, and Malaysians Hisham Albakri and Baharuddin
Kassim. Originally built in 1965, it is a bold and modern
approach in reinforced concrete, symbolic of the aspirations
of a then newly-independent Malaysia.
The minaret at the Great Masjid of Xi'an, China
The Masjid-i-Jahan Numa, commonly known as Jama Masjid
of Delhi is the principal Masjid of Old Delhi in India.
Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and completed
in the year 1656 AD, it is the largest and best known
Masjid in India.
(There are also Jama Masjids in many other cities with
a history of Islamic rule, or large Muslim populations.)
Masjid-i-Jahan
Numa means "the Masjid commanding a view of the
world", and the name Jama Masjid is
a reference to the weekly congregation observed on Friday
(the yaum al-jum`a) at the Masjid.
The courtyard of the Masjid can hold up to twenty-five
thousand worshippers.
The Masjid also houses several relics in a closet in
the north gate, including a copy of the Qur'an written
on deer skin incurred on the construction in those times
was 10 lakh (1 million) Rupees.
Shah Jahan built several important Masjids in Delhi,
Agra, Ajmer and Lahore.
The Jama Masjid's floorplan is very similar to the Moti
Masjid at Agra, but the Jama Masjid
is the bigger and more imposing of the two. Its majesty
is further enhanced
because of the high ground that he selected for building
this Masjid.
Imam Masjid, formerly Shah Masjid along
Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan, Iran
Modern designed Masjid in the town of Vogošca,
located in central Bosnia.
The Hassan II Masjid in Casablanca is one of two
Masjids in Morocco open to non-Muslims.
Masjid in Afghanistan
Putra Masjid or Masjid Putra in Malay language, is Putrajaya's
principal Masjid. Construction of the Masjid began in
1997 and was completed two years later. It is located
next to Perdana Putra which houses the Malaysian Prime
Minister's office and man-made Putrajaya Lake. In front
of the Masjid is a large square with flagpoles flying
Malaysian states' flags.
Zahir Masjid is Kedah's state Masjid. It is located
in Alor Setar, the state capital of Kedah, Malaysia.
Glasgow Central Mosque is the largest mosque in Scotland,
and one of the largest in the United Kingdom. it was
formally opened in 1984 by H E. Abdullah Omar Naseef,
the Secretary General of the Muslim World League.
The
Muslim population of Scotland number some 50,000 and
comprises mainly Arabs, Pakistanis, Turks, African,
Malays and Indian Muslims. The mosque also services
many foreign students attending Glasgow's prestigious
universities and provides a focus for the Muslim community.
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