The Alhambra is a palace and fortress that is located in Granada, Spain. It was built on a plateau that overlooks the city of Granada. It takes its name from the Arabic word signifying “the red castle.” Alhambra reflects the color of red because of the bricks that is made from red clay from the plateau. The Alhambra is a reflection of the culture of the Nasrid Dynasty, the last Muslims to rule Spain. It is also evidence of the skills of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian artists, craftsmen, and builders.
The Alhambra was first constructed as a small fortress in 889 AD on the remains of Roman fortification. The first palace was built by Samuel Ha-Nagrid, the Jewish grand vizier. It was largely ignored until the mid-13th century until the Moorish
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It has 1,730 meters (1 mile) of walls and thirty towers of varying size that enclose the city within a city. Access to Alhambra was restricted to four main gates. The Alhambra's nearly 26 acres include structures with three distinct purposes: a Palace for the ruler and close family, the citadel barracks for the elite guard who were responsible for the safety of the Alhambra, and an area called medina, or city where court officials lived and worked. The different parts of the complex are connected by paths, gardens and gates but each part of the complex could be blocked in the event of an …show more content…
After the Christian conquest they began the alterations of the Alhambra. The Alhambra became the location of the Royal Court of Ferdinand and Isabella. The palaces were partially altered to Renaissance style. The Alhambra mosque was replaced with a church. The rooms in the palaces were Italianized and art works on the walls were filled in with white wash. Over the centuries the Alhambra and its Moorish art were further damaged. In 1812, some of the towers were blown up by the French during the War of Independence and in 1821 an earthquake did further damage to the structure. In 1828, through the 20th century, restoration of the Alhambra took place. In 1930, a young architect named Leopoldo Torres Balbás opened up arcades that had been walled up, opened up filled in pools, replaced missing tiles, and completed damaged
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For example, mosques and other praying sites always faced Mecca. The qibla in the Great Mosque of Cordoba is an exception because it faces Baghdad however, praying sites in the gardens of the Alcazar in Granada do face Mecca. Despite that difference, the mosque in Granada has a rectangular shape and is divided into a courtyard and the praying hall just like most mosques which derive their shape from Muhammad’s home. “The courtyard was an integral part of the Mosque, for it contained the fountains for washing the face, hands, and feet for the ritual purification before prayer.” (Burckhardt 10) and the minaret which brought cities together at the time of prayer. This standardized layout across the Islamic world provides a unifying structure for its people and the
Both these dynasties inherently inhabited the same territories (the Timurids ruled until the 1500s). Unfortunately due to a series of later earthquakes, there is not much surviving architecture from the reigns of the first two Safavid shahs. Shah Abbas, who moved the Safavid capital to Isfahan, practically reinvented the city based on collection of buildings including palaces, mosques, bazaars and madrasas. Abbas arranged the center of the city around a large open area called the Meydan-i Shah (Square of the Ruler) and located to the south end of the Meydan-i Shah is the largest of Shah Abbas 's imperial mosques, the Masjid-i Shah (Mosque of the Shah). The Masjid-i Shah"s development began in the 1612 and finished by around 1638. Something unique about the position of the mosque against the position of the square is that the qibla wall of the mosque is not adjusted with the square because the square was present prior to the mosque, hence the architects of the Masjid-i Shah built the entrance portal to the mosque turning 45 degrees. Another unique and fascinating note is that the scale is incredible. These enormous portals and minarets were garnished in elegant tile with massively patterned color to create a cohesive effect on the courtyard of the mosque. As for the interior, the abundant use of blue, yellow and gold including with the tessellations of vines, leaves
Foster care purpose is to provide temporary housing for children who have been removed from their home due to neglect, abuse or any other act that deemed the home or parent unfit. Not only does a human service workers work provide counseling for children that have been placed in foster care, but it is also important for them to work with the biological parents and provide support to the foster parents. You mentioned in your post that clients must be fully engaged in order to receive a positive outcome. Biological parents must be willing to receive all the resources available from human services specialist in hopes to be reunited with their child and prepare them for the transition and immediately placed back in the home. Achieving
The city-state had magnificent thick outer walls, temples were rebuilt as new, and building built with beautiful resources such as limestone. Nebuchadnezzar established an atmosphere for the arts and intellect to thrive in. Another great accomplishment of Nebuchadnezzar is the Ishtar gate, which was dedicated to the gods; the gate was ornamented with animals, and decorated with glaze. The thriving atmosphere is another reason why Babylon was so powerful. Nebuchadnezzar made it his obligation to make Babylon the greatest place on earth, and while he was king, Babylon was the paradigm of
The Grand Mosque is the first mosque in Islam also the greatest, and it is in the center of the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia." It is an area of 750,000 square meters and it can hold 4 Million people." It costs $11,316,818,165$ for the comprehensive restoration. In the center of the mosque, is Kaaba. Muslims believe that is a sacred spot. The meaning of Kaaba in Arabic is cube like structure. It is really based on a small room with marble and black basalt stones constructed brought in from the nearby mountains. According to the Koran, a man named Abraham and his son Ishmael built the Kaaba in response to God's command. Kaaba has been in the Grand Mosque for a long time however really a few people who saw the inside of it on the other hand millions saw the outside of the Kaaba but both of them who saw it from the inside and outside drank from Zamzam well which been running more than 1,350 years.
...ng the military and economic leaders. In 691 the Dome of the Rock was built by one caliph who wanted to de-emphasize Mecca. He intended this rock in Jerusalem to be the spot for the faithful instead of the Ka'bah, and was successful.
The celebration is a lot like Christmas here in America. But Navidad has a much more traditional and spiritual significance than what we celebrate. From December sixteenth to December twenty-fourth children perform the Posada, Posada in Spanish is Inn or Lodging. Symbolizing when Joseph and Mary were searching for an Inn to stay in. Children walk the streets with candles, clay figures of Mary on a donkey and Joseph. They sing a song about Mary and Joseph asking for a room in the house, they are told that there is no room in the home, so they continue the process through the night until someone welcomes them in and are told there is room. The evening ends with the children having a party at the desired home with prayers of thanks, fireworks,
The actual building itself appears similar to a castle. The architecture had royal features due to the triangular points on the top of the building. There were three open doors; one big main entrance in front, two small side doors, and all the guests entered through the main entrance. Once I walked in, a big gold Buddha was centered in the back surrounding multiple iconic religious statues. There seemed to be about a hundred religious statues highly dazzled in silver or good.
The Ishtar Gate to the city of Babylon stood as a testament to the aim of King Nebuchadnezzar II to rebuild the ancient city of Babylon as the most grandiose and magnificent of the ancient world’s cities. Citizens of the neo-babylonian empire were the first to bear witness to its grandeur and were likely the best equipped to appreciate the aesthetics contributing to its religious meaning. Given that it was a main entrance to the central capital of Babylon, the gate could have been seen by citizens of different social classes and levels of education, and in turn may have conveyed different meanings to different classes of citizens. In the eyes of a merchant or artisan, the brilliant blue faience bricks adorned with religiously symbolic animals
Introduction  In the developing world, specifically Muslim nations, women are viewed as lesser and unequal to men, resulting in the mistreatment and objectification of women within the society.  Known for underage prostitution, drug abuse and sex trafficking of abducted and abused women and children is the town Daulatida in the Rajbari District, Bangladesh. Daulatida is the largest brothel in the world with 1,3001 known sex workers including the underage girls who are working illegally in prostitution, that service 30002 customers who pass through its streets every day. Daulatida was opened and founded by the British during their colonial rule decades ago and has been perpetrated by the third-generation sex workers that descend from the
...re that was most unique to the Early Dynastic period was the oval enclosure with a centralized platform to lend stability to the shrine. Storage were found near the enclosure. The Temple Oval at Khafaje best exemplifies the unique formation of the oval enclosure in the temples. This enclosure had a double perimeter wall present which was highly unusual for enclosures. Another oval temple was found that Tell al Ubaid, which had a rectangular platform in the center. In the front of this platform there were elaborate decorations, which were belived to have fallen from the façade of the temple which had stood on the platform. Besides these oval temples there were also plans of temples with a number of single or double roomed shrines, one noteworthy temple is from Tell Chuera in North Syria. This design plan yields a closer resemblance to the west and megaron buildings.
There was lots of interesting stuff to see both outside and the inside. The build was very much like the house. I guess it makes sense, since it is here in US, and the weather is pretty cold. Usually in a mosque there towers rising form the mosque. They were round and long and covered with the pointed room. It is where adhan is called; adhan is a islamic call to prayer. And the building has the dome rooftop. The mosque I went to was very plain looking. From the front it looked like a house. It was kind of long, and it had lawn around it, with beautiful trees and flowers planted. From the inside, the building is very plan. As soon as you enter the building there was a shoe rack, where everyone took of their shoes. And then there was a prayer hall, where the warship takes place five times a day. The prayer hall is also called musalla. The prayer hall was pretty plain; there was literally no furniture in the room. There were some chairs for the elderly people, and a book shelf filled with Quran and other islamic religious books. The prayer hall walls were plain as well, except some part where the walls ware decorated with the writings from Quran in Arabic. Other than that, there was no paintings, statues, or altar that caches your attention except one little part of the wall. That one little part of the wall was Mihrab. Mihrab is a semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque, which indicates the direction of the
Taj Mahal. ( Mahal is the word in urdu language used for Palace) How can I describe The Taj Mahal? You can’t its impossible. You just have to experience it. To gaze in wonder at that magnificent dome and elegant gardens will be a moment that you remember for the rest of your life. It is one of the greatest sights in the world, some say the greatest, and like Victoria Falls, The Grand Canyon, and Macchu Picchu, it simply is one of those things you have to see in your life. The architectural grace and symmetry of the Taj Mahal just takes your breath away. We had chosen our visit carefully--the sun was setting and the light that washed over the Taj was golden in color. The minarets were now stark against the setting sun . The actual dome was a surprise, it is not yellow-white but blue-white and covered in inscriptions and detail. From below it looked like something out of "Arabian Nights." But inside were the tombs of Mumtaz Mahal and Shah Jahan. The central tomb is a lofty chamber with light streaming through fine latticework, and hanging above was an elaborate lamp. Words cannot describe its beauty when you stand on that marble platform overlooking the Yamuna, with the setting sun turning it into a golden ribbon. You may a...