Jama Masjid India

During the 1980's, the Egyptian architect Abdel Wahed El-Wakil designed over a dozen mosques in Saudi Arabia. While these mosques differ in size, formal composition, and sources of financing, they nonetheless are umted by a number of general characteristics. Firstly, they can all be referred to as revivalist structures. All draw heavily, and often very directly, on various historical prototypes belonging to the architectural heritage of the Islamic world. All these mosques share strong similarities in the use of materials and construction technologies Their construction is based on the utilisation of load bearing brick walls, vaults and domes. Therefore, these structures are built of hollow baked bricks held together with mortar Most of the brick surfaces are covered with white plaster, and in some cases, with granite. However, the interior of the vaults and domes are generally left exposed, and are only coated with a layer of browinsh paint. As for reinforced concrete, its use i...

Seeing a scene of impeccable beauty, we often hear the term “Heaven on Earth!” But there is only one place that literally has the right to proclaim itself as such. There, deep in the mosque of the Prophet   (masjid Nabawi), covered by green carpets and the tears of millions, lies a “garden from the gardens of paradise.” [1] It is a place known to every Muslim who has ever lived, yet there's still much we don't know about it. Here are just some of the interesting facts and mysteries of the Prophet's   Mosque: 9. The first place in the Arabian Peninsula to have electricity When the Ottomans introduced electricity to the Arabian Peninsula, the first place to be lit up was the mosque of the Prophet  . [2] By some accounts, it would be a few more years before the Sultan himself had full electricity in his own palace in Istanbul. [3] 8. The current mosque is larger than the old city The current mosque is more than 100 times the size of the original build...

Al-Masjid an-Nabawi  (Arabic: المسجد النبوي) or the  Prophet's Mosque  is a great mosque in  Medina , Saudi Arabia. It stands on the site of a mosque built by the Prophet Muhammad himself next to his house and contains his tomb. The Prophet's Mosque is the  second holiest  mosque in the world after  al-Haram  in  Mecca . ( Al-Aqsa  in Jerusalem comes in third.) History of Prophet's Mosque The  original Prophet's Mosque  was built by the Prophet himself, next to the house where he settled after his Hijrah (emigration) to Medina in  622 AD . It was an  open-air building  with a raised platform for the reading of the Qur'an. A square enclosure of 30x35 meters, the mosque was built with palm trunks and mud walls and accessed through three doors: Bab Rahmah to the south, Bab Jibril to the west and Bab al-Nisa' to the east. The basic plan of the building has since been adopted in the building of other mosques th...