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The Daphni Monastery fell into decline after it was sacked by Frankish crusaders in 1205. The region became part of the Duchy of Athens under Othon de la Roche. Othon gave the Daphni Monastery to the Cistercian Abbey of Bellevaux, [4] who added their own cloister and twin pointed arches in the Gothic style to the façade of the church. The ...
The Pammakaristos Church, also known as the Church of Theotokos Pammakaristos (Greek: Θεοτόκος ἡ Παμμακάριστος, "All-Blessed Mother of God"), is one of the most famous Byzantine church buildings in Istanbul, Turkey, and was the last pre-Ottoman building to house the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
It appears that the Kapnikarea church may have originally been the katholikon of a monastery. Presently, the building is formed by a complex of three different units attached together; these units were built in succession: a) the largest south church dedicated to the Presentation of Mary to the Temple, b) the chapel of St Barbara on the northern side; and c) the exonarthex with the propylon to ...
The Pantocrator mosaic is mainly inspired by the mosaics from the mosaic Deesis (Δέησις, "Prayer") in Hagia Sophia located in the upper south gallery, dating back to 1261, from the southern dome of the Chora church, and from the dome of Daphni monastery an eleventh-century Byzantine architecture monastery. [142]
Nea Moni (Greek: Νέα Μονή, lit."New Monastery") is an 11th-century monastery on the island of Chios that has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.It is located on the Provateio Oros Mt. in the island's interior, about 15 km from Chios town.
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At Al-Ansari Mosque in a different part of town, a pile of dusty prayer mats could be seen in a chaotic pile inside a room filled with cement that had been crushed into what looked like pebbles.
Mohammad therefore decided between a fire, a bell, a Jewish horn and the nāqūs for the muezzin's call to prayer . [2] Apparently, in the early days of Fustat, the Muslims struck the nāqūs as an early-morning call to prayer. [3] The sound of the nāqūs as a call to prayer was heard along with the crowing of the cocks. [4]