Wielki Meczet Omajjadów

• Autorzy: Kelm T.

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Great Omayyad Mosque

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

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In September 2003 a group of students and staff from the Department of Architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic stayed in Syria as part of an international exchange with the Al Baath University in Homs. The Syrian hosts enabled the visitors to tour numerous magnificent objects of architecture, including the Great Omayyad Mosque. The very phenomenon of mosques, towering in the middle of the most crowded town districts, remains fascinating for the European. In this particular case, we dealt with sheer majesty amidst bustling, everyday life and crowded, noisy streets and shops. The man axis leading towards the mosque rums across the Al Hamidijeh suk. Sunlight seeps through the nineteenth-century cast iron roofing of the main passage in the bazaar. The exit from the suk tunnel leads to a small square, disclosing the mosque walls and one of its three minarets, whose beauty is compared by the Arabs to that of a bride on her wedding night. The impressive gate in the stone walls offers a view of the mosque courtyard. It is a simply impossible to see the whole solid of the mosque from the outside. Only fragments of the walls which once encircled the ancient object, and into which the mosque had been inserted, are visible. The terrain on which the mosque stands is rich in architectural ramains of earlier structures some three thousand years old. The object was erected in 706-715; at the same time, Caliph Al-Walid built a mosque in Medina on the spot of the house and grave of Mohammed, as well as the Great Mosque in Aleppo. The mosque in Dmascus is the first monumental object of its kind, and one of the earliest great constructions of Islam next to the Dome on the Rock in Jerusalem (692), raised as a sanctuary by another caliph from the Omayyad dynasty.

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meczety

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mosque

• Wydawca: Komitet Architektury i Urbanistyki PAN ; Politechnika Warszawska, Wydział Architektury
• Czasopismo: Kwartalnik Architektury i Urbanistyki
• Rocznik: 2002
• Tom: T. 47, z. 3
• Strony: 314--319
• Opis fizyczny: fot., rys.

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autor

Kelm T.