With Ramadan over and Eid al-Fitr festivities wrapping up, now might be a good time to pay homage to the many gorgeous mosques that the faithful flocked to during the holy month.
Here’s a look at just a few of the country’s beautiful mosques, as photographed by residents and shared with Doha News in our Flickr Pool.
What would you add? Thoughts?
Great pictures very well taken. Mosques look great on the outside but somewhat lack character on the inside compared to old churches or temples around the world.
It’s by design, the mosques should be places to pray, not to look at how magnificent they look….
http://www.fatwaislam.com/fis/index.cfm?scn=fd&ID=929
http://islamqa.info/en/254
http://islamqa.info/en/97497
I understand that but I am looking at it from a different angle. Hagia Spohia is magnificent, probably due to its use as a church before the Muslims converted it to a mosque and so is say some of the temples in India. Mosques like the Blue Mosque in Istanbul look great from the outside but barren inside. I’m not there to pray but to look at them from a historical and cultural perspective.
historically and in a lot of other regions, they are beautiful on the inside on the outside. In islamic belief: “God is beautiful and he loves beauty”, there is nothing wrong with beatifying it, if you can beautify your house then you should beautify the house of god which should be placed at a higher rank than your house (not sure that I explained this correctly).
https://www.google.com/search?q=mosques+that+are+beautiful+on+the+inside&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIh9qZ76z4xgIVymkUCh2u8Qi0&biw=1536&bih=862&dpr=1.25
inside and on the outside*
beautifying*
I get the same tranquil feeling when I walk into the brand new QF mosque as into the three-quarter of a millennium old magnificent Cologne Cathedral. The connection between one and the almighty is powered by conviction and imagination.