Famous Mosques around the World

[TATI]

Why are they so big for..I thought mosques only had one big room to pray in I wonder what the insides look like

[Hawdian]

Karin,

Nice mosques but the Arabs do build the most impressive mosques at all no matter how many billions they throw at foreign engineers, builders and architects.

One of the most interesting mosques for me is the Bibi-Khanim Mosque in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, which is an ancient city which became a huge, influential and rich capital at the height of the silk trade.

The mosque was built by the 14th-century ruler, Amir Timur, and it was named after his wife. After he conquered as far as India, it is said he used more than 90 elephants to transport the precious stones from India.

He referred to himself as the Sword of Islam and Babur Beg, founder of the Mughal Empire, was his great-grandfather. He tried to revive the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan. Himself was a Mongol.

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His grandson, Ulugh Beg, who was an astronomer, would later build one of the finest observatories in the Islamic world in Samarkand. He invited both Al-Kashi and Ali Qushji, two leading Muslim astronomer, mathematician and physicist (Ali). Al Khan was a Persian while Ali was a local. Ulugh's mother was Persian and his father was a great believer in science and maths.

These three invented many things that we use to this day for example Al Kashi invented the Plate of Conjunctions, an analog computing instrument used to determine the time of day at which planetary conjunctions will occur and for performing linear interpolation.

He played big role in making important break troughs in sine, cosine and tangine which are all Arabic names.

In his numerical approximation, he correctly computed 2π (or \tau) to 9 sexagesimal digits[10] in 1424,[2] and he converted this approximation of 2π to 17 decimal places of accuracy.[11] This was far more accurate than the estimates earlier given in Greek mathematics (3 decimal places by Archimedes), Chinese mathematics (7 decimal places by Zu Chongzhi) or Indian mathematics (11 decimal places by Madhava of Sangamagrama). The accuracy of al-Kashi's estimate was not surpassed until Ludolph van Ceulen computed 20 decimal places of π nearly 200 years later.

Now that's what I call an impressive mosque, with organic architecture, history and amazing leader/conquer.

Forget these Arabs and their paper CAD generated mosques. They just like to build them because they have petro-dollar not because they are into the faith or have stories of heroine and expansion.

[Lamagoodle]

This is one of my favourites;

Bukhara (the birth place of Bukhari; the journalist) who reported many Hadiths.

The Mali mosque is beautiful. So is the BLUE MOSQUE in Istanbul. Almost all the others are ugly. Modernity is not neccessarily beauty.

[malibantu]

Masjids in and around Timbuktu - The whole city and Mosques Listed UNESCO World Heritage Centre







And if you don't know now you know W.A.R.Y.A.A

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

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Fes Mosque in Morocco. Along with the Mosque in Bukhara and Samarkand, the most beautiful in the world. Why can't we achieve such artistic and craftsmen mastery?

[SuldaanOfSanaag]

This Nation are older than us, But inshallah with time we will build great mosque.

Digfeer Mosque Mogdisho

[SuldaanOfSanaag]

Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque Oman

[waraabe251]

second biggest mosque in south america
Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim mosque






inshallah go there and marry and settle down