Minaret Collection (page 15)

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)

Sanaa, Yemen - Tower of the Great Mosque
Sanaa, Yemen (Ottoman Empire) - Tower of the Great Mosque. Sanaa is the capital of the Yemen and the old city boasts over 100 mosques, 12 hammams (baths) and 6, 500 houses

Aden, Yemen - Mosque
Aden, Yemen - A mosque

Yemen - Aden - Ceremony at a Mosque

Scene outside a mosque in Kashgar, western China
A crowded scene outside a mosque in Kashgar, western China. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Boulevard Marie Louise, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Banya Bashi Mosque on the Marie Louise Boulevard, Sofia, Bulgaria

Rustchuk, Bulgaria
The Turkish Quarter at Rustchuk, Bulgaria

Eski Jumah, or Old Mosque, Salonica, Greece

The rooftops of Smyrna
A view over the rooftops of Smyrna (Smyrne), Turkey

Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic Bridge, Visegrad
The Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic Bridge (Sokullu Mehmet Pasa Koprusu) - a bridge in Visegrad, over the Drina River in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ukraine - Crimea - Goursouff
Goursouff in the Crimea (Ukraine). The rooftops of this coastal town, set on a rocky shore

Izmir, Turkey - General View of the City
General view of the city of Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey with the hilltop castle of Kadifekale in the background

Izmir, Turkey - The Turkish Baths
A fine view of the ornate domes of the Turkish Baths at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Izmir, Turkey - Main centre
The view from the waterfront toward the Main Square and centre of the town of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey with the Municipality at rear and mosque on the left

Sivas - Turkey - Ancient Mosque
A very early Mosque at Sivas, Turkey (Medieval Sebastia, sometimes spelt Sebastea or Sebasteia). Sivas is the provincial capital of the Sivas Province in Turkey

Village near Sivas, Turkey
A Village close to Sivas, Turkey, with a mosque built on the top of a rocky escarpment with a small river winding below and fertile fields stretching in all directions toward distant hills

Sivas - Turkey - Guduk Minare
A turbe (tomb) thought to have been built for Ertann Hassan by his son in 1347 at Sivas, Turkey (Medieval Sebastia, sometimes spelt Sebastea or Sebasteia)

Egypt - Cairo - Al Ashraf Mosque
Egypt - Cairo - Sultan Al Ashraf Barsbay (Barsbey) Mosque

Morocco - Marrakesh - Ben-Youseff Mosque

Egypt - Cairo - Kasr-el-Nil Bridge
Egypt - Cairo - the Pont de Ghazirah (a bridge over the Nile) and a street scene in the city

Egypt - Heliopolis - Abbas Boulevard
Egypt - Heliopolis, a suburb of Cairo. The Abbas Boulevard

Cairo - Egypt - Bustling street scene

Uskudar - Street scene with small minaret
Bosphorus - Asian side - Uskudar (Scutari) - Street scene with a small neighbourhood Mosque. The Imam and Muezzin approach the building

Muezzin - Call to Prayer, Constantinople
A Muezzin - the call to prayer from a Mosque overlooking the Bosphorus (likely to be a Mosque at Kuzguncuk). Visible across the Bosphorus is the European side

Constantinople - Karakoy scene with ferries
At Karakoy, the tourist liners moor up today. View showing little ferry boats with awnings to keep the sun off the delicate passengers. Galata Tower in the background

Small Mosque, Constantinople, Turkey
A small neighbourhood Mosque in Constantinople, Turkey

Tunis, Tunisia - Mosque
The Mosque of Sidi Ben Ziad in Tunis, Tunisia seen at the end of a very attractive old street, the houses set back behind a stone colonnade

Tunis, Tunisia - General view over the rooftops
A general panoramic view of the rooftops of Tunis, Tunisia

The Grand Mosque - Tangiers, Morocco. A European man strides purposefully (if somewhat unusually) toward the cameraman in this shot

Hassan Tower - Rabat - Morocco. The minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat, Morocco. Begun in 1195 AD, the tower was intended to be the largest minaret in the world along with the mosque

Constantinople - A Street scene in Uskudar
Uskudar (Scutari) - A street scene. Constantinople, Turkey

Turkish Orange Vendor
A Turkish Orange vendor

Tozeur - Minaret of the Mosque - Tunisia
Immense Minaret of a Mosque at Tozeur, Tunisia

Mosque of Bacos, Alexandria, Egypt

The Casino, Tunis, Tunisia
The Facade of the Casino at Tunis, Tunisia with fabulous French Art Nouveau plaster reliefwork surrounding the entrance and a minaret style tower

Minaret at Sivrihisar, Turkey
Possibly a former Christian structure, transformed into a Minaret in Sivrihisar (near Eskisehir) Turkey

The Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun, Cairo, Egypt
The Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun is located in Cairo, Egypt. It is arguably the oldest mosque in the city surviving in its original form, and is the largest mosque in Cairo in terms of land area

Tunis, Tunisia - Rue des Teinturiers (Dyers)

Al-Azhar University and Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 975. The chief centre of Arabic literature and Sunni Islamic learning in the world and the worlds second oldest surviving degree granting university

Medenine, Tunisia - The Rue de Ksar and the Mosque

Mosque at Trabzon, Turkey
Mosque Entrance in Trabzon, Turkey

A mosque in Egypt -- possibly in Cairo, where there are many

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