Open Directory - Arts: Architecture: Building Types: Religious: Islamic

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Arch Net - An online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world. Includes an extensive image collection.
Bait-ul-Futuh - Western Europe's largest mosque, opened October 2003 in London. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community provides particulars, photographs and a press release.
Canadian Islamic Center Al-Jamieh - Virtual tour of the planned new building.
Delights of Muslim Architecture - BBC News reports on the seven winning projects of the Aga Khan Architecture Award - established to encourage traditional Muslim architecture.
Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre - Issues from 1984 to 2000 are available in the ArchNet Digital Library.
Muqarnas - An annual publication on Islamic art and architecture. Issues 1 to 11 (1983-1997) are available in the ArchNet Digital Library.
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture - At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University promotes research and teaching in Islamic art, architecture, and urbanism.

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Open Directory - Arts: Architecture: Building Types: Religious: Islamic: History

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Islamic Architecture Tutorial - An on-line tutorial from San Jose State University focussed on the architecture of the Ottoman Empire, and other buildings with great significance in Islam, organized on a timeline.
Mosque - Tore Kjeilen explains the significance of the mosque to Muslims, its history, development and use, in an article for the Encyclopaedia of the Orient.
Mosque of Amr Ibn El-As - The Egyptian Tourism Ministry provides an illustrated history and description of the oldest mosque in Egypt, founded in 642 AD and rebuilt several times subsequently.
Mosques - Great Buildings Online provides images and information on famous mosques in Turkey, Syria and North Africa.
Mosques Around the World - IslamiCity presents photographs of outstanding mosques, both historic and modern, arranged by continent.
Saigon's Mosque - Photographs and brief history of this mosque built in 1935 by Indian Muslim traders.
Sinan Mosques in Istanbul - Chuck Newman's photographs of his tour around the mosques designed by the famed 16th-century architect.
Wikipedia: Great Mosque of Djenné - Information on the world's largest mud-brick building, in Mali. Sections on its history, design and significance, plus pictures.
Wikipedia: Suleiman Mosque - Illustrated history and description from the online collaborative encyclopedia of this grand mosque in Istanbul, built on the order of Suleiman I to a design by Sinan which reflected the nearby Hagia Sophia.

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