Nurd Kamal mosque
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First Uppity Mosque
First Uppity Mosque Next week, the world's first uppity mosque will open in Istanbul.
In a country where most mosques are variations of the classical designs of Sinan, the 16th-century Ottoman master architect, and where women have commissioned mosques before, but never built them, both the design and the designer of the Sakirin Mosque are a departure from the norm.
In fact, practically everything about the Sakirin Mosque in Istanbul is different from other mosques.
Its walls are almost completely made of glass decorated with wrought-iron mesh. The mihrab -- usually a modest niche indicating the direction of Mecca -- is tulip-shaped and dramatically arched in bright blue. Colours running through the mosque range from turquoise to coral pink to gold and silver. The main element of the fountain in the middle of the courtyard is a sphere made of stainless steel, symbolising the universe.
Fazle Omar Mosque
Built in 1957 by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, it is Hamburg's oldest existing mosque. It is also Germany's second-oldest existing mosque.
Fazle Omar Mosque
Centrum Mosque
This mosque is situated in a central, but poor district of Hamburg. It is part of a building complex which also houses a turkish supermarket. It caters to turkish sunnites.
Centrum Mosque
Ali Camii Mosque
This mosque was finished in 1961, located in a wealthy neighbourhood with predominantly non-muslim inhabitants. Funding for construction came mainly from iranian businessmen who settled in Hamburg. It is Hamburg's centre of the Shia branch of Islam.
Ali Camii Mosque
Sultan Syarif Hasyim Mosque
Several meter before you enter the mosque Masjid Sultan Syarif Hasyim's square. An exotic mosque built near Siak's bridge.
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