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Abu Darweesh Mosque Badshahi Mosque The Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque) with its distinctive ensemble of six minarets, Istanbul. Jerusalem: Dome of the Rock Great Mosque of Damascus: courtyard Djenné, Mali: mosque Two large eyvans with pointed arches and intricate tilework at the Imam Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, with a blue-tiled dome and minarets rising above the main entrance. Mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China, with a large dome and four tall minarets decorated with colorful green, blue, and yellow tiles. The Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, with its green dome and tall minarets illuminated at dusk as people walk across the expansive marble courtyard. Samarkand, Uzbekistan: Shirdar madrasah
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Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.
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Islamic architecture: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - Architecture. Oct 22, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Islamic architecture. Apr 04, 2025
Add new Web site: Boise State Pressbooks - Introduction To Art - Early Islamic Art and Architecture. Jan 30, 2025
Add new Web site: Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research - Islamic Art and Architecture Unity in diversity (PDF). Dec 13, 2024
Add new Web site: KU ScholarWorks - Islamic Architecture: An Architecture of the Ephemeral. Oct 15, 2024
Add new Web site: Smarthistory - Arts of the Islamic world. Sep 02, 2024
Add new Web site: BCcampus Open Publishing - Art and Visual Culture: Prehistory to Renaissance - Islamic Architecture. Mar 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Early Islamic Art and Architecture. Jan 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Art in Context - Islamic Architecture � Building Styles Across the Muslim World. Nov 21, 2023
Add new Web site: The Spruce Eats - What Is Islamic Architecture? Sep 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Victoria and Albert Museum - Islamic Architecture. Feb 04, 2014
Add new Web site: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections - Islamic and Mudejar Architecture. Sep 22, 2010
Cross-references added. Sep 21, 2009
New article added. May 22, 2009
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