EditorialRemains of the largest 12th century mosque and the unfinished Minaret called " Hassan-tower". Built by Jacub el-Mansur around 1196, for the use of a large garrison, the mosque with its 400 pillars was never finished.
EditorialPavilions or summer-houses 2, Elevation of a pavilion or summer house with a tower in the style of a Turkish minaret, pl. XXXVI, after p. 31, Robert Lugar: Architectural sketches for cottages, rural dwellings, and villas, in the Grecian, Gothic, and fa...
EditorialPhotograph - 'Mosque & Minaret', Damascus, Syria, Sister Isabel Erskine Plante, World War II, 1941, One of 135 black and white photographs contained in a World War II-era photograph album, featuring photographs of Sister Isabel Erskine Plante in unifor...
EditorialThe Qutb Minar. One of the greatest monuments of Islamic architecture in India, the minaret forms part of a complex containing some of the earliest structures of Muslim rule in the country. Hastings Albums. 1815. watercolour. Source: Add.Or.4832. Langu...
EditorialGandikotta Pass, on the Pennar River; women by a body of water; figures by a cave on the right; rocks and cliffs on either side; the points of a minaret in the distance. Northern Entrance of GUNDECOTTA PASS. [London] ; [Bengal] : Published according to...
EditorialThe Qutb Minar. One of the greatest monuments of Islamic architecture in India, the minaret forms part of a complex containing some of the earliest structures of Muslim rule in the country. Hastings Albums. 1815. watercolour. Source: Add.Or.4832. Langu...
EditorialCourtyard of the Great Mosque of Kairouan (Qayrawan), Tunisia. Founded by Prince Ziyadat Allah in 836; Minaret 836; courtyard and arcades 862-75. The square minaret with three floors is a precursor of the Kutubia in Marrakesh and the Giralda in Sevilla.
EditorialMosque Qarawyin, Fez; view over the roofs of the mosque towards the minaret built 956 CE. Last enlarge-ment under the Almoravid sultans (1062-1147); the mosque has room for 20.000 people.