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National Geographic Publishes Pictures Of Beautiful Mosques In The World

Beautiful Mosques list is being published by National Geographic and the Mosques showed are immensely beautiful and a good watch.

All mosques are beautiful and pretty as they are the house of Allah and a place to pray. But Nat Geo collected some Beautiful Mosques In The World which everyone wants to see and visit.

1. Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkey)

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Built during the early 17th century, Istanbul’s most camera-friendly structure gets its nickname from the blue tiles decorating the central.

2. Great Mosque of Kairouan (Tunisia)

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The first Islamic urban in the Northern Africa and one of the 4 sacred cities for Muslims, Kairouan’s holy trifecta is comprehensive cheers to the Grand Mosque of Kairouan, a construction in Tunisia respected for being an illustration of Islamic building of Muhammed’s house in Medina, considered the 1st mosque.

3. Shah Faisal Mosque (Pakistan)

PHOTOGRAPH BY SHAHID KHAN / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO / NATGEO

Formed in the late 1970s, the Shah Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is a present mosque that is Sunni in its repetition, obliging all of the rites of the dissimilar values in the Muslim world.

4. Islamic Center of Washington DC (USA)

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The Islamic Center in Washington D.C. is famous for combining organized divergent styles and cultural inspirations, mainly from Iran, Egypt, and Turkey.

5. Süleymaniye Mosque (Turkey)

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Ottoman mosques, like Istanbul’s Süleymaniye Mosque, deliberately copy the church of Hagia Sofia, additional main tourist location in the city.

6. Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Egypt)

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One of the greatest conserved mosques in Egypt, this royal red block compound was constructed in 876 by the Turkish ruler of Egypt and Syria.

7. Nasir-ol-molk Mosque (Iran)

PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD I’ANSON, GETTY IMAGES / NATGEO

Unusual in mosques, the discolored glass spaces of Iran’s Nasir al Molk in Shiraz illumine its Persian rugs with a phantasmagoria of decorative flecks of light.

8. Istiqlal Mosque (Indonesia)

PHOTOGRAPH BY DASRIL ROSZANDI, ANADOLU AGENCY / GETTY IMAGES / NATGEO

At the time of its building in the late 20th century, Jakarta’s Istiqlal was careful avant-garde for its tower and dome, measured “too Arabic” for the local Muslim populace. Usually, Javanese mosques comprise a covered, triple-roof style.

9. Jama Mosque (India)

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India’s Jama Masjid topographies a red stonework and marble external that pay respect to the Mughal empire, much of which was inclined by Persia.

10. Sheikh Zayed Mosque (UAE)

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The enormous Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi holds additional than 40,000 participants in its patio and prayer hall. The world’s main Persian rug gives inside under German-imported chandeliers made with Swarovski minerals.

11. Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan (Egypt)

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Operative as together a school and a mosque in Cairo for nearly 300 years, Sultan Hassan delivers a model mosque for specialists to clarify what Islamic attitude is all about.

12. Shah Mosque (Iran)

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One of the most renowned physiognomies of Iran’s Great Mosque of Isfahan is its development and growth for more than 10 periods, on behalf of closely a thousand years of Islamic art and construction.

13. National Mosque of Malaysia

PHOTOGRAPH BY MANAN VATSYAYANA / GETTY IMAGES / NATGEO

The rooftop of the National Mosque of Malaysia, constructed in capital Kuala Lumpur for the period of the late 20th century, attractions its motivation from the bottom of an open umbrella.

14. Education City Mosque (Qatar)

PHOTOGRAPH BY BONNIE JO MOUNT / THE WASHINGTON POST / GETTY IMAGES / NATGEO

This mosque in Doha is raised on five wharves, that signify the five mainstays of Islam—shahada (knowledge), salat (prayer), zakat (charity), siyam (fasting) and Hajj (pilgrimage)—each etched with Quranic stanzas in a sophisticated print.

15. Hassan II Mosque (Morroco)

PHOTOGRAPH BY WOLFGANG KAEHLER / GETTY IMAGES / NATGEO

Hassan II Mosque’s closely 700-foot tower–the highest in the world–is as iconic to Casablanca as the Empire State Building is to New York.

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