European Mosques [Photos]

[Redalinho]

Ortaköy Cami in Istanbul ,Turkey







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[Redalinho]

Old Dublin Mosque:

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Nice one, it looks like a small irish college

[Mishevy]

Originally Posted by Godfrey

They just gave it a little fire. After that Jusufspahić cried for months on TV, so Serbian government rebuilt it.

But the mosque in the first pic and the one in the second and third seem to be completely different buildings. The sec and third are not Bayrakli mosque.

[Redalinho]

Originally Posted by Iluminat

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It used to be but now it's Belarus

Thank's I corrected it

[Redalinho]

A pretty Minaret in Moorish style, total height in excess of 60 meters, it's in southern Moravia in large Lednice Park, which is the Unesco heritage. It was built in 1797-1802 and I've read it is largest work in the moorish style in the non-Islamic countries, it is used as observation tower.
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[neorion]

Originally Posted by Kampflamm

That's no mosque. It was never used as one and is one of those "faux" buildings...or whatever you want to call them. Like a romantic ruin or something like that.

Oh. Well here's another 'faux building' in Germany, the old Yenidze tobacco factory or Tabakmoschee (tobacco mosque) in Dresden, 1909.







Quite impressive, I must say!!

[frozen]

Mezquita de Córdoba, Spain. Probably, the most beautiful mosque in Europe (Nowadays, it is the Cordoba's catholic cathedral)

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The oldest surviving significant Muslim building in all of Spain is the Mezquita (mosque) of Cordoba. Many Andalucian churches today either stand on the site of mosques or are simply converted mosques. Cordoba's Mezquita is one such monument - once the second largest mosque in the world, today a Roman catholic church. The Mezquita was founded by Abd ar Rahman I in 785 AD and then expanded by his successors in the 9th century.

The mihrab (shown here), a niche in the mosque indicating the direction of Mecca (and hence the prayer) is located in the southern section, unique amongst all mosques that the mihrab does not point towards Mecca (east in this case). A commonly believed theory is that Abd ar Rahman I, originally from Damascus, oriented the mihrab to the south instead of east as if he were still in Damascus (Mecca is south of Damascus).

The dome over the mihrab is lavishly decorated with heavenly motifs by mosaicists from Byzantine (modern day Istanbul) and were given specific instructions to imitate the superb mosaic work of the great mosque of Damascus. The Christian emperor of Byzantine supposedly also sent 1600 kgs of gold mosaics with the mosaicists, to give the mihrab characteristics of a Byzantinian church.

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[neorion]

Interesting info, but not a mosque any more frozen!!

[Norkey]

Originally Posted by AdnanPrijedor

Why not??

we have jewish synagogues, budhist temples, all types of christian temples, even orthodox basilicas.. but nobody likes islam here, you can guess why..

[Quintana]

Originally Posted by MoroccanChica

I heard about that one when I was in Marseilles. There was a lot of talk about whether it should have been used as a mosque since pigs were slaughtered there.

Didn't an Italian politician release some pigs on the site of a planned Mosque?

[MoroccanChica]

Yeah I remember that story. I am really not the best one to ask about such issues but I think there are some rituals followed for when a site is initially declared as a mosque.

Cool thread btw! Here is the MENA thread about Middle-Eastern and North African Churches (which has pictures of my town's Spanish church ).

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=343152

[Redalinho]

The Blue Mosque of Oslo, Norway

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[Redalinho]

Gibraltar

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[Redalinho]

Marbella, Spain

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[Quintana]

This Mosque is/was planned for Amsterdam but will probably not be build:

[Redalinho]

A cave mosque in Toulouse

[Redalinho]

I don't like the way they build minarets in Europe

Originally Posted by Quintana

This Mosque is/was planned for Amsterdam but will probably not be build:

[mark1100]

there will be a giant new mosque is cologne

[Gamma-Hamster]

Central Mosque, Grozny, Russia.

[EvanG]

Originally Posted by Redalinho

[B]Great Mosque of Brussels, Belgium

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this one used to be a fake mosque too when it was build.

It was build as a pavillion for a world exibition at the end of the 19th century and looked like this back then.