with paintings‚ using stained glass windows and placing gold crosses within the church. Other religions such as Islam also spend a lot of money on the interior and exterior decoration of mosques. Filling them with golden calligraphy and a number of minarets that are all expensively done. This money could have been used to help the less fortunate and other people who are in need of financial aid. I disagree due to the following reasons; firstly with places of worship being fancily decorated‚ expensively
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Ottoman Culture has evolved along centuries as their empire was widen across the world and they conquer more nations. Original bases of their culture was build on the islamic and turkish cultures and strongly influenced by them in customs‚ Language and all life styles. Their culture absorbed‚ adapted and modified the cultures of conquered lands and their nations for example Persian culture - the Seljuk Empire architecture theme and culture- had a significant contribution to that era’s culture
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mosque to be built was the Quba Mosque in Medina‚ which was built when Muhammad arrived from the hijra back in 630 C.E. After the construction of the first mosque the idea of a place for worship spread. The first mosques had dome shaped roofs and minarets to call people for prayer. As these ideas spread they became continuous in different societies as they adopted the same architectural techniques. As Islam spread‚ and architecture spread
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Kelsey Pendleton 8 Nov 2010 Option 2 – Islamic Art In traditional Islamic architecture the Gibla was the wall facing in the direction of the Mecca‚ and contained a Maqsura‚ the place where the emir or caliph would pray. The Mihrab was usually a concave niche in the Gibla‚ indicating it as the Mecca-oriented wall of the mosque. However‚ the word Mihrab has been used to refer to a variety of architectural elements that vary in size‚ shape‚ and elaboration. This meaning of the word make the true
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Sanaa is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. it is the capital of the Republic of Yemen. The history of Sanaa started when founded by Shem‚ son of Noah. the story tells of how Shem reached Yemen after a long way from the north and found Sanaa a suitable place to settle in. Shem originally chose the western part of Sanaa but according to a popular legend‚ it says that the moment he began building the foundations of the city‚ a bird flied to himand picked up his sounding lead to the eastern
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chaitya 6. chattri 7. continuous narrative 8. Ganesh 9. garbhagriha 10. gopura 11. Indo-Saracenic 12. jataka 13. Jina 14. karma 15. Krishna 16. lakshanas 17. Lakshmi 18. linga 19. mandala 20. mandapa 21. mandorla 22. mihrab 23. minaret 24. mithuna 25. mudra 26. Orientalism 27. qibla 28. samsara 29. saptamatrika 30. Shiva 31. sutras 32. torana 33. urna 34. ushnisha 35. vihara 36. Vishnu 37. bodhisattva 38. dharma On the day of the exam‚ you will be asked to select
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of the building look all the more beautiful. We went down the staircase. We found the graves of the king and the queen under the dome in a dark chamber. Multicolored pieces of glass and couplets form the Quran decorated the side walls. The four minarets stood as watch men at each of the main building. The Taj Mahal on a full-moon night‚ looks like pure white pearl‚ a sight that cannot be seen elsewhere in the world. A full moonlight followed the next day. We visited the Taj again that night. Its
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structure. The interior of Hagia Sophia is paneled with mosaics made of colored marbles‚ glass and ornamental stones. Originally‚ the top of the building was decorated in gold with a cross at the tip of the dome. After it became a mosque‚ new mosaics‚ minarets and a
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“surrender” or “submission‚” indicating wholehearted surrender to God‚ and a Muslim is one who submits to God (Allah). 7. Muezzin: a chanter who announces that Allah is great‚ greater than anything else and calls people to prayer several times a day. 8. Minaret: the top of a tower that is used to call people for prayer by a muezzin. 9. Mihrab: a special arched niche used to indicate the direction of prayer in a mosque. 10. Ramadan: period of shared fasting that unites Muslims; the night month of the Muslim
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responsible for saving the works of Aristotle‚ whose ideas would later dominate both the Christian and Muslim worlds.[4] Inventions that emerged from the Islamic world include the discovery of citric acid (Jābir ibn Hayyān)‚ arabesque architecture‚ the minaret‚ the bridge mill‚ the vertical-axle windmill‚ teaching hospitals‚ marching bands‚ early torpedoes‚ the guitar‚ the lute‚ the water pipe (hookah‚ narghile‚or shisha)‚ early attempts at gliding‚ algebra‚ the pinhole camera‚ the laws of refraction‚ coffee
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