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| This is the Mevlana Tekkesi in Konya, Turkey, established in 1231 by Mevlana Celaluddin Rumi, the Muslim mystic who founded the order of Dervishes. Green was chosen by the Arab Prophet Muhammad as the emblematic colour of Islam. |
A north-east view of the famous Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul in an early 16th-century German woodcut. |
| The picture above and the picture below this text are of Istanbul's third most celebrated mosque, the Süleymaniye Camii. It was built at the behest of Sultan Süleyman (known in the West as "Suleiman The Magnificent") by the renowned architect Sinan during the years 1550-1557, at the height of the Ottoman Empire's power and prosperity. |
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In the picture above, the sun sinks in the west amongst the
minarets of the Süleymaniye as seen from the Golden Horn.
With its unique shape, the Islamic minaret is a veritable
banner or Islam, announcing to the eye of everyone who sees
it that this is a land of Muslims, regardless of what
particular political flag may fly in that place.
Simple mosques in villages usually have only a single minaret from which the call-to-prayer (adhan) is intoned five times daily, since the settlements around them are not so large that the prayer-summoner's voice will not readily carry to every dwelling. Grander mosques in more heavily populated locations boast a standard four minarets, one at each corner of the mosque's quadrilateral precinct, to ensure that the calls to prayer delivered from each may be heard throughout that quarter of the city towards which the given corner of a larger urban mosque projects. |
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Examples of Architecture for Access to Allodynes . . . |