Minaret Collection (page 14)

India - Mosque of Dehradun
The Minaret of the Mosque at Denradun, India

The Harem Saloon / W H Robinson
The Harem Saloon, built to resemble a small portion of Bagdad, with domes and minarets. Ideal for transporting the odd wife or two

Emperors Sarajevo - Mosque
Bosnia & Herzegovina - Sarajevo - The Emperors Mosque (Careva dzamija), built in 1457 by the founder of Sarajevo Isa Bey Ishakovic, and in honor of Sultan Mehmed II El-Fatih

Istanbul, Turkey - Horse-drawn cart

Bosnia Herzegovina, Mostar - Minaret
Bosnia Herzegovina, Mostar - the tallest Minaret in Bosnia and part of the Koski Mehmed Pasa Mosque, built in 1617

Tunisia - Tunis - Halfaouine
The Halfaouine district in Tunis, Tunisia. Groups of men and women sit out in the street chatting on wooden chairs

Meknes, Morocco - Mosque close to the Mellah Gate
Mosque close to the Mellah Gate at Meknes, Morocco. It stands next to a spectacular palm tree!

Algiers, Algeria, Mosque of Sidi Abderhaman

Tangiers, Morocco - The Grand Mosque
A view toward the Grand Mosque at Tangiers, Morocco. The most interesting aspect of this particular postcard is that fact that the photographers premises is pictured in the top right-hand corner

Sfax, Tunisia - Souk of the Mosque
The Soul of the Mosque at Sfax, Tunisia, North Africa. Date: 1910s

Eritrea - Massaua
Massaua, Eritrea (formerly Italian East Afrca)

Djemaa el-Djedid Mosque and Consulate Palace - Algiers
The Consulate Palace and Djemaa el-Djedid Mosque at Algiers, Algeria. Contrary to its name, the New Mosque, (the Djemaa el-Djedid) sometimes also called the Pcherie Mosque

Statue of Duc D Orleans & Mosque - Algiers
A remarkable juxtaposition: A Statue of the Duc D Orleans and the Mosque of Djemaa el-Djedid, Algiers, Algeria. Colonial French town planners cleared many Ottoman buildings when they redesigned

Mosque & Consulate Palace - Algiers
The Djemaa el-Djedid Mosque and the Consulate Palace, Algiers, Algeria. Colonial French town planners cleared many Ottoman buildings when they redesigned the Algiers waterfront

Samarkand - Uzbekistan
Ruins of a mosque at Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Kasim Pasa - Admiralty Buildings
Admiralty Buildings at Kasim Pasa - with a small Mosque in the centre of the courtyard

Saint Sergius and Saint Bacchus Church
Little Aya Sofya - the Saint Sergius and Saint Bacchus Church, now a Mosque. Begun by Justinian in 527. Saint Sergius and Saint Bacchus were Patron Saints of Christians in the Roman Army

View of Constantinople
The distinctive skyline of Constantinople, Turkey, with the domes and minarets of the Great Mosques

Riding through Constantinople on donkeys
A husband and wife ride through Constantinople on a pair of donkeys, with the ladies steed being led by a young servant

Railway passing the Little Aya Sofya
The Turkish railway passing the Little Aya Sofya - the Saint Sergius and Saint Bacchus Church, now a Mosque. Begun by Justinian in 527

Turkey - Istanbul - Ayasofya
The Ayasofya, Constantinople as viewed from the Blue Mosque with the Bosphorous in the background, looking toward Asia

Scene of Ottoman era Bethlehem
The Market in Bethlehem in the Ottoman era - was for a time part of Jordan and now part of Israel

The Shrine of Imam Reza - Mashad, Iran. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Egypt - Suez - General view including Mosque
Egypt - Suez - General view including the Kafr-Zar Mosque Date: 1910

Constantinople - Sultan Ahmet I Mosque
Constantinople - The Sultan Ahmet I Mosque - The Blue Mosque, viewed from the Hippodrome. The Mosque has six minarets. Completed in 1616 - architect Mehmet Aga

Gallipoli - Police Headquarters
Fountain outside the Police Headquarters at Gallipoli

Gaziantep - Turkey
Gaziantep (Aintab), Turkey. Considered to be on of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. The sixth largest city in Turkey in the south-eastern Anatolia region

Constantinople - Muezzin - Call to prayer in village of Rumeli Hisari

Mosque & Tomb of Rumi
Mosque buildings incorporating the Tomb of Rumi in Konya. Also the Minaret and Medressa (Religious school). The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia)

The Isa Bey Mosque, Ephesus, Turkey
The Isa Bey Mosque at Selcuk, the present town of Ephesus, Turkey. Constructed in 1374 - one of the oldest works of architecture remaining from the Anatolian beyliks (rich, powerful gentry)

Pergamon, Turkey - view from the ruins toward Bergama
The site of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon, situated today in Misia in northwestern Anatolia, sixteen miles from the Aegean Sea. Once nearly invaded by the Celts

The Yildiz Palace & Adbul Hamid Mosque
A Hold-to-light postcard of the Yildiz Palace and the Hamidiye Camii or Abdul Hamid Mosque in Constantinople. The Mosque was built in 1886 by Sultan Hamid II

Turkish troop manoeuvres close to Constantinople
Turkish armed forces on manoeuvres close to Constantinople

Grain Market - Antioch, Turkey
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. Founded in the 4th century BC, eventually rivalling Alexandria as the greatest Near Eastern City

Antalya - Turkish coastal town
Southern Turkish Mediterranean coastal resort of Antalya

Adana, Turkey - Armenian Quarter
Adana, capital of Adana Province in south east Turkey. The ancient Antioch on the Sarus. One of the largest cities in Turkey - the gateway to the Cilician Plain

Ada-Kaleh - fortified Turkish Island
The fortified Turkish Island of Ada-Kaleh, now underwater. Situated on the Danube - submerged in 1970 due to the building of a hydro-electric station. Three kilometres from Orsoza

Dark backstreet, Baku, Azerbaijan. Delightful inset relief carving on the wall (left) and a view toward the imposing minaret of the Royal Mosque in the background

Royal Mosque at the Shirvan Shahs Palace, Baku
Royal Mosque at the Shirvan Shahs Palace - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - Baku, Azerbaijan

Royal Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan
Royal Mosque at the site of Shirvan Shahs Palace - a UNESCO World Heritage site at Baku, Azerbaijan

Morocco, Casablanca - New Medina, Fountain and Mosque

Bulgaria - Varn - a Mosque
A Mosque at Varn, Bulgaria. Easy to miss, but important not to ignore are the two bears being led along the street!

Izmir (Smyrna) - General View
A general view of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Trabzon, Turkey - Cale-itchi Quarter
The Cale-itchi Quarter in Trabzon on the Black Sea coast in north-eastern Turkey. The capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon was located on the historic silk road route and during the Ottoman period

Yalova, Turkey - A Mosque
Yalova is a city located in northwestern Turkey, on the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara, and is the capital of the Yalova Province. Famous for its hot springs, some of which are radioactive

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Hisar Cami
View toward the Kizlaragasi Han (1744) caravanserai in the historic Kemeralti bazaar zone of Izmir (Smyrna), with the Hisar Mosque (1592) seen in the background

General view of Izmit
Izmit houses a harbour 87 km southeast of Istanbul. The Eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire between 286-324 AD

Albania - A view of Shkoder with an elegant building with a balcony (left) and mosque (at rear)

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