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    The Selimiye Mosque

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    The Selimiye Mosque located in Edirne Turkey although the mosque has changed some functions it still remains a functioning mosque for the people of Edirne today. Commissioned in 1574 by Sultan Selim II, Selimiye was constructed by famous architect Mimar Sinan. Constructed during the middle of the Ottoman Dynasty it remains a structure that highlights not only Ottoman architecture, but Islamic architecture. The Ottoman Empire has a long history spaning over 600 years. The Turks were first pushed

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    The Mosque Lamp

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    The artist of the piece chosen, The Mosque Lamp, is undefined. This particular artwork was created in Egypt and the date of its origin is recorded as C.1320. Creating this piece included the use of blown glass, enamel, gold, and silver stain. Using these particular materials the creator produced a lamp that looks like an inverted bell. Most onlookers would see this piece and come to the conclusion that the artist created a vase with an hour glass shape. Other shapes on the piece are the protruding

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    David Doan Kevin Moore 05/21/2015 English 111 The Significance of Church Church Going by Phillip Larkin is a poem which hectors, but also provides an interesting perspective on the significance and purpose of religion. Throughout the poem, one can instantly recognize Larkin’s agnostic beliefs because of the story’s duel nature. Church Going begins with an obviously atheist narrator ironically sneaking into an empty church. Due to the narrator’s ignorant and naïve personality, one can infer that

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    Title: Name: Manuel chairez III Class: final dissertation Subject: technology and religion The church is one that has always sought to get the word out to the masses in the most direct way possible. One of the most recent ways that this direct communication has changed in this digital age is the introduction of the computer to the churches arsenal. We will take a closer look into the reason for some of these churches location, some of the issues that can be a problem in this sort of setting, how

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    The Iron mosque is known to be so due to its stainless-steel clad structure. It’s a very modern building located in the administrative capital, Putrajaya. Nevertheless, it still manages to integrate traditional culture and religious cues into its design. These, together with its scale, location on the Putrajaya lakefront and sight lines, make it quite a spectacular building. The Iron Mosque has a district cooling system, and fans or an air conditioning system. It uses 6000 tons of iron and 70 percent

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    Apex Mosque Interview

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    I chose to visit Apex Mosque that is situated at 733 Center St. Apex, NC 27502. The reason why I chose this place is because I am a friend of the Imam at the mosque. I interviewed Imam Khalid Shahu. In 2013, the total population of all the Muslims was estimated to be 2.04 Billion individuals, and in 2014, this population increased to 2.08 billion individuals. Behind Christianity, Islam is also an influential religion in the universe. The population of the Muslims increases rapidly each year to make

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    Aside from the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the mosque of Cordoba, the Great Mosque at Damascus is perhaps one of the grandest symbols of Islamic art still standing in the 21st century. The building borrows palatial architecture and is decorated with intense mosaics and paintings; most of which have been destroyed but evidence is still there. Underneath the impressive double decker arches are arrangements of spolia from the Roman Empire and intricate images of a beautiful natural landscape

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    with valuable knowledge of the interactions. By analyzing the various contexts of the encounters, one can understand how religious identities were shaped alongside other traditions. According to Griffith in her novel The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque, Christians that lived in the Islamic world were exposed to differences that ultimately formed their identity. Due to the Muslim dominated environment, Christians found themselves questioning their own faith when faced with the challenge of clarifying

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    The concept of gender roles, connects to the mosque. Gender role is how a woman and man present themselves in society (388). The reason why gender roles connects to the mosque because the women and men section are separated by a curtain, that men only socialize with men, and women only socialize with women. Women have the role to only socialize with women, and vice versa for men too. The people who go the mosque are raised from a young age that boys talk to boys, and girls talk to girls; and that

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    The audience are my peers, who know about the issue but not about the specifics. The Park51 Islamic Center, also referred to as the Ground Zero Mosque, was “a $100 million Islamic mosque and community center” that was planned to be built two blocks from the site of the 9/11 terrorist attack (Bottum Par.2). The plans for this mosque began in 2009 and sparked numerous protesters to rise up against the idea of its creation. The crowds who protested the building of the Park51 Islamic Center believed

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