European Mosques [Photos]

[Turknology]

Originally Posted by jose.a

Mean that I was refering to most of muslims living in Europe or anywhere... like in every situations are exceptions but, what is relevant is the majority.

You used before any group of people is the first step towards generalisation in a negative context.

Originally Posted by jose.a

I'm not ofended with mosques in Europe, I'm ofended with the atitude of many muslims living in Europe that don't try to assimilate our culture. Instead use burkas and other stuff and try to deny basic human rights with the excuse of religion. You cannot deny that, just read the several recent news in DLM in Englan and Holland related to muslims

I understand your concern but in a globalising world there are bound to be foreign influences in architecture, just take skyscrapers in Europe, they are not traditionally European but they are springing up everywhere, sometimes you just have to accept the change and not see it as something threatening but just part of a global trend. (I'm just as irritated by Saudi funded mosques springing up across my country but it would be hypocritical to oppose them while embracing skyscrapers springing up like mushrooms across Istanbul)

Originally Posted by jose.a

You don't find any thread with photos in DLM, this is just one more exception to rules in Europe and once again is related to Muslims... do you start understand why I'm a quiet upset?

Yes, but the person who opened this thread is not that sort of a person who would try to use pictures of buildings to make a political statement. This thread has no more ulterior motive than the church thread in the MENA skybar as far as I am concerned.

Originally Posted by jose.a

I was baptized but don't go to one church at many years. So I'm not a christian fundy, I'm a fundy of European way of live.

I apologize, I was just taken back by your animostic reaction to this thread.

[Giri]

No mosque in Gothic style ?

[Redalinho]

London Central Mosque


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[Redalinho]

Valide mosque, Turkey















Ortaköy Mosque , Istanbul

[Redalinho]

Mosque of Kioutsouk Hasan, Canea, Greece



Suleymaniye Mosque, Rhodes, Greece



Tzisdaraki Mosque with Acropolis in background, Monastiraki square, Euboea, Greece

[Redalinho]

Haji Hasan Mosque, Kos, Greece



Defterdar mosque, Kos, Greece









Grand Mosque, Rhodes, Greece



Chadrevan Mosque, Rhodes, Greece



Odos Sokratos Mosque, Rhodes, Greece

[Redalinho]

Grande Mosquée de Paris, France

[Kampflamm]

Why is messiah always whining about there being no mosque in Athens?

[Redalinho]

The Great Mosque of Cordoba still exists, although it is no longer used as a mosque



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[Kampflamm]

Pecs, Hungary

[Redalinho]

The cathedral of Sevilla has the reminds of the mosque' minaret now transformed into a bell tower, it is called "La Giralda"

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[Jünyus Brütüs]

Redalinho, Last 3 pictures belong to Ortaköy Mosque not Pertevniyal Valide Sultan mosque (I mean 104th post)

[Jünyus Brütüs]

Originally Posted by Kampflamm

Why is messiah always whining about there being no mosque in Athens?

This building is a museum.

[Onur]

Originally Posted by Kampflamm

Why is messiah always whining about there being no mosque in Athens?

Because they're not used and prayings on there are banned from Greek govt.

[Onur]

I see that each mosque has different styles by region.
Balkans, Turkey and Turkish diaspora: Cylindirical minaret with cone top including sherrefes, half globe dome. (Hagia Sophia)
France: Boxy design inspirated from Northern African mosques. (Paris central mosque)
England: Minarets and domes inspirated from Haram Mosque in Mecca. (London central mosque)
Former Soviet Union: Onion style dome inspirated from St. Peter's Basillica. Tulip-look Minaret tops inspirated from Iran-Central Asia. (Great Kazan mosque)

[Onur]

French mosques are boxy version of this.

Yivli Minaret Mosque, Antalya.
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Paşa Ali Mosque on back. The clock tower has an onion dome til 1950

[Caustic]

Mosque in Roma, apparently Europe's biggest (30.000 m² of land)

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Mosque in Milan


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[brisavoine]

Originally Posted by Onur

Because they're not used and prayings on there are banned from Greek govt.

Same as Christians are banned from praying in the Hagia Sophia by the Turkish government. Just imagine if some Ethiopian invaders had captured Mecca in the 15th century, turned the grand mosque there into a Christian church, then turned it into a museum in the 1930s but still prevented Muslims from praying in it. Then you can imagine how the Greeks and the entire Orthodox world feel.

[Akril]

Originally Posted by Onur

Russia + old USSR: Onion style dome. Tulip-look Minaret tops.

It is a style of Persian origin from Сentral Asia and its imitations.


Modern style Lala-Tulpan Mosque in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.

[Akril]

Originally Posted by Akril

It is a style of Persian origin from Сentral Asia and its imitations.

Actually i am wrong. Persian style is without Tulip-Minarets:

Originally Posted by Redalinho

St. Petersburg, Russia:

"Onions & Tulips" traditional for Volga region (Tatarstan and Bashkortostan):

Originally Posted by Redalinho

The Great Mosque in the Kazan Kremlin.

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There is also a Turkish style (South of Russia, Crimea) and a various styles similar to the same styles of Russian Orthodox Churches only with Mosque features.