ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

Slide 1Mosques
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built by Uqba in 50 H/ 670 AD in the
city of Kairouan. While the mosque was
created on the most likely small simple
space-based ceilings on columns
columns and the ceiling.
Architecture and art in the Umayyad era:
Uqba Mosque (Great Mosque of Kairouan) / Tunisia
Architecture and art in the Umayyad era:
Uqba Mosque (Great Mosque of Kairouan) / Tunisia
And is considered Mosque of Kairouan of the largest mosques in the Muslim
West and an area of Fine 9700m, and its scale is as follows 126m long and 77 m
wide and the house praying in a broad and large area to hundreds of this marble
columns based side large courtyard, surrounded by arcades However the magnitude
of the area of the Great Mosque of Kairouan is also an architectural masterpiece
and one of the finest Islamic monuments.
Architecture and art in the Umayyad era:
Uqba Mosque (Great Mosque of Kairouan) / Tunisia
Architecture and art in the Umayyad era:
Uqba Mosque (Great Mosque of Kairouan) / Tunisia
Architecture and art in the Umayyad era:
Uqba Mosque (Great Mosque of Kairouan) / Tunisia
Architecture and art in the
Umayyad era:
Architecture and art in the Umayyad era:
Uqba Mosque (Great Mosque of Kairouan) / Tunisia
The minaret of al Aqaba mosque of the most beautiful minarets built by Muslims in
Africa. The minarets are all built later in the Maghreb like her do not differ by only a
little.
The minaret is made up of three layers are all square, the second layer is smaller than
the first, and the third is smaller than the second, and over the three-layered dome lobed.
Total height of the minaret of up to 31.5 meters.
The inner workings of the minaret narrow staircase rises whenever the building rose in
proportion to the size where narrows the higher up. Believes that the minaret was not built
in one go, even if the first part the largest of which was built in the reign of Caliph
Hisham bin Abdul Malik , then completed the construction process after a long period
where built Parts II and III above those mega-base.
Architecture and art in the Umayyad era:
Uqba Mosque (Great Mosque of Kairouan) / Tunisia
Architecture and art in the Umayyad era:
Uqba Mosque (Great Mosque of Kairouan) / Tunisia
Architecture and art in the Umayyad era:
Zaytuna / Kairouan mosque
Tunisia after the mosque in
Kairouan.
"African" after the Great Mosque of
Uqba bin Nafe in Kairouan, it is
likely that the historians of the
matter is built Ismayl bin Obed
Allah Al-Ansary 70 H. Known
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was for the majority of fingerprints
and turn emulate Mosque of
Kairouan.
elements in the house of prayer on
the square shape is irregular and 7
rows of slabs contains 15m & 15
bays is covered with flat ceilings.
Has mainly relied on the stones in
the construction of Zitouna Mosque
with the use of brick in some
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Zaytuna / Kairouan mosque
Zaytuna / Kairouan mosque
Zaytuna / Kairouan mosque
Zaytuna / Kairouan mosque
Zaytuna / Kairouan mosque
Umayyad era: