Image of Outside of Prayer Hall at Kairouan's Great Mosque, by Aghlabid

Outside of Prayer Hall at Kairouan's Great Mosque, by Aghlabid craftmen, from 836, 9th century,...

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IMAGE number: MEP1266663
Image title: Outside of Prayer Hall at Kairouan's Great Mosque, by Aghlabid craftmen, from 836, 9th century, Kairouan, Tunisia (brickwork and stones)
Photographer: Luca Mozzati
Medium: brickwork and stones
Date: 836 AD (C9th AD)

Image description: Whole artwork view. The order of the courtyard portico of the Great Mosque is interrupted by the bigger horseshoe arch in corrispondence of the entrance to the Prayer Hall; the latter is introduced by two sandstone pillars and a couple of smaller arches; a masonry crowning, with arabic battlements, also lifts the wall's heigh over the entrance gate, just before the drum of the Prayer Hall, rising over a cube with three arched windows and domed on the top. Maestranze aghlabidi Kairouan, Tunisia
Photo credit: Mondadori Portfolio / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: 9th century / cloud / weather / room / window / entrance / mosque / battlements / spirituality / ninth century / art / strength / cloister / simplicity / porch / devotion / fortified architecture / court / external / horseshoe / stone / tunisia / religious architecture / tholobate / architecture / worship / islamic art / sky / sacred building / arabic architecture / sacredness / pillar / basement / little column / prayer / no people / mediterranean / sun / sandstone / allah / islam / cupola / ziyadat allah i / horizontal / kairouan

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