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Mosque Of Muhammed Ali History

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The History of mosque of Muhammed Ali
The Mosque of Muhammed Ali (1824-48) is a central dome style mosque. The mosque is a squared mass and is attached to a cubic courtyard. The mosque has a large sized central dome, four semi-domes and four corner domes. It has two tall minarets, and six small minarets. The mosque’s courtyard has a fountain, a clock tower and Muhammed Ali’s tomb. The mosque of Muhammed Ali is considered the state mosque of Egypt.
The construction of the mosque began in 1824 and was completed by 1849 before the death of Muhammed Ali. During that period Egypt was part of the Ottoman Empire, the country was ruled by Muhammed Ali (1769-1849). Muhammed Ali was an Albanian officer in an Ottoman force sent out to Egypt after the …show more content…

The architecture of the mosque Muhammed Ali adapts the style of Ottoman mosques from Turkey. The vast monumental mosques in Turkey were inspired by the religious architectures from the Byzantine Empire. Ottoman mosque architecture was specifically inspired by the Hagia Sophia (Church of Holy Wisdom) and the architects in Ottoman Turkey wanted to compete with the magnificent Hagia Sophia. The domes which characterized the byzantine architecture appeared in mosques in Istanbul, and became one of the dominant features of mosques in Ottoman Turkey. The central dome mosque style appeared after that, it is characterized with a central dome and surrounding semi-domes (Fig 3). Despite the mosque of Muhammed Ali having strong influences from Ottoman Mosques in turkey, it would “seem out of place in …show more content…

5); the first is the courtyard, second is the prayer hall, and the last is the mihrab. The mosque is entered through a gate in the courtyard, then one enters through portal which leads to the prayer hall and at the end of the hall the minaret. The movement of entering the mosque is symbolic and spiritual, the movement goes to the prayer hall and after that the mihrab which is the holiest part of the mosque.
The mihrab is a 17m by 9m rectangle extending out from the prayer hall, and the minbar to its left. The prayer hall is a 45m by 46m space, it has 4 large pillars supporting the central dome and two gates opposite each other. The prayer hall is connected to the courtyard through a portal gate. The Courtyard is a 52m by 57m in the centre of it is a fountain for performing ablution at the centre of the western wall is a clock tower. Fountains are an essential part of a mosque, it is where worshippers cleanse their souls by performing ablution with water. The performance of the ritual ablution purifies the soul and prepares the worshipper to enter a spiritual state of mind. The ablution makes the worshipper pure, clean and eligible to enter the prayer hall, the worshipper faces the minbar and the worshipper connects with

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