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2019.04.29 Nayabad #Mosque - a wonderful sample of great #Mughal #architecture in #Bangladesh.
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Built in 1793 it was created by the Muslim architects who came from the West (Persia is the assumption). These workers who built the famous Hindu temple Kantojir Mondir (aka Kantajew Temple) settled in a near by village and built this beautiful mosques for their daily prayers.
In addition to three domes with octagonal towers at the four corners and the three arched doors that welcome visitors inside the mosque, there are two arched windows on each of the north and south sides of the mosque. These windows being in cool summer breeze and natural light into the room.
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#history #travel #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #architecture_hunter #mosque #travelblogger #travelphotography #islamicarchitecture #travelphotography #travelphoto #landmark #historical #dinajpur #photographersofbangladesh #beautifulbangladesh #bangladeshinpositivelight #islam #design #persian #wanderlust #empire #mughalarchitecture #bnw #bnwphotography #bnw_society #bnw_shotz (at Dinajpur, Rājshāhi, Bangladesh)
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2019.04.29 Nayabad #Mosque - a wonderful sample of great #Mughal #architecture in #Bangladesh.
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(Built in 1793 it was created by the Muslim architects who came from the West (Persia is the assumption) to build the famous Hindu temple Kantojir Mondir (aka Kantajew Temple).
There are three domes with octagonal towers at the four corners. Three arched doors welcome visitors inside the mosque.) #
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#history #travel #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #architecture_hunter #mosque #travelblogger #travelphotography #islamicarchitecture #travelphotography #travelphoto #landmark #historical #dinajpur #photographersofbangladesh #beautifulbangladesh #bangladeshinpositivelight #islam #design #persian #wanderlust #empire #mughalarchitecture #bnw #bnwphotography #bnw_society #bnw_shotz (at Dinajpur, Rājshāhi, Bangladesh)
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2019.04.29 Nayabad #Mosque - a wonderful sample of great #Mughal #architecture in #Bangladesh.
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Created by the Muslim architects who came from the West (Persia is the assumption) to build the nearby famous Hindu temple Kantojir Mondir (aka Kantajew Temple) this mosque was completed in 1793 by those workers.
There are three arched doors (the middle one seen here) which welcome the visitors inside the mosque. Rectangular #terracotta plaques beautifully decorate the outside mosque walls.
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#history #travel #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #architecture_hunter #mosque #travelblogger #travelphotography #islamicarchitecture #travelphotography #travelphoto #landmark #historical #dinajpur #photographersofbangladesh #beautifulbangladesh #bangladeshinpositivelight #islam #design #persian #wanderlust #empire #mughalarchitecture #shotoniphone #bnw #bnwphotography #bnw_society #bnw_shotz (at Dinajpur, Rājshāhi, Bangladesh)
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ALTMay is National Photography Month! The Fine Arts Library holds more than 150,000 photographs and slides documenting Islamic art and architecture, as well as ethnographic views that provide cultural context.
Middle East and Islamic Photographs Collections are strong in albumen silver prints produced by commercial studios in the second half of the 19th century. These images are complemented by the photographic output of the first generation of scholars of Islamic art history, such as K.A.C. Creswell and Ernst Herzfeld, taken with documentary intent.
Most prominent is the Harvard Semitic Museum Photographic Archives. Developed at the Semitic Museum between 1891 and 1992 and transferred to the Fine Arts Library in 1995, the archive includes more than 38,000 images in a variety of formats.
Turkey, Contantinople. Mosque of Santa Sophia.
Robertson, James, 1813-1888, English [photographer]
Albumenized salt print: Istanbul, Hagia Sophia (Aya Sofia Camii)
10” x 12”, 25.5 x 30.6 cm
salted paper prints
photographs
Repository: Harvard Fine Arts Library, Special Collections
1851-1853
HOLLIS number: olvwork365432
