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Dhul Hijjah begins today. Over the next ten days, millions of Muslims will travel to Makkah for Hajj, converging on a mosque unlike any other in Islamic architecture. Masjid al-Haram doesn't follow the typical mosque layout. Instead of worshippers f
This Jumu’ah, we’re looking at Dar al-Islam in Abiquiu, New Mexico, an adobe mosque where three building traditions converge. When Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy arrived in the New Mexico desert in 1980, he brought two Nubian master bui
The Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud-brick building in the world. Every surface is banco: clay, water, shea butter, baobab powder, and rice husks. The three minarets rise nearly 20 meters from a raised platform above the Bani River f
This Jumu'ah, we're looking at the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. In 1873, Dutch colonial forces burned the original mosque to the ground during their invasion of Aceh. Then they rebuilt it themselves in 1881, in a Mughal Revival
The architect who designed Tokyo's largest mosque refused to use metric measurements. Muharrem Hilmi Şenalp designed Tokyo Camii using the arşın, the traditional Ottoman unit of measurement, to preserve the proportional relationships that govern cla
This Jumu'ah, we're looking at the work of the craftsmen of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. They covered 4,000 square meters of wall in gold mosaic and filled every inch with trees, rivers, and palaces. Not a single human figure appears anywhe

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