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Anatolian Seljuk mosques included more conservative hypostyle constructions alongside less traditional floor plans. An important hypostyle example is the Alaeddin Mosque of Konya (built between 1156 and 1235, with later additions).
Floor plan of the Great Mosque of Kairouan (c. 836, with some minor additions later) One of the most important Aghlabid monuments is the Great Mosque of Kairouan, which was completely rebuilt in 836 by the emir Ziyadat Allah I, although various additions and repairs were effected later which complicate the chronology of its construction.
Current plan of the Great Mosque of Kairouan. Under the rule of the Aghlabid dynasty, Kairouan was at its apogee, and the mosque profited from this period of stability and prosperity. In 836, Emir Ziyadat Allah I reconstructed the mosque once more: [21] this is when the building acquired, at least in its entirety, its current appearance.
17th-century illustration with floor plan by French explorer Guillaume-Joseph Grelot. Despite the opposition, the sultan went ahead with the project. [11] Construction started in 1609 and completed in 1617, when the opening ceremony was held, though the year 1616 is mentioned on some of the mosque's inscriptions.
The mosque plans call for the renovation and expansion of the home at 157 Plainfield Ave. into a three-story worship center, with two floors of prayer halls, a first-floor mass prayer area for men ...
As the mosque's prayer area is aligned with the qibla (direction of Mecca) but the street outside is not, the mosque's external façade has a different alignment from the rest of the structure and the entrance involves a bending passage from the street to the mosque interior. [3] The floor plan is also irregular and asymmetrical due to the ...
Floor plan of the mosque (today), with the courtyard above and the three-aisled prayer hall below The plan of the new mosque was innovative and highly influential in the history of early Islamic architecture .
The building, which has more than 220,000 square feet of floor space, could house nonprofits and for-profit businesses alike, according to Fadi Suleiman, a Palestinian American mosque member and ...