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	Mihrab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mihrab (in Persian مهراب or محراب, in Arabic ألمحراب pl. محاريب), sometimes spelled "mehrab" or "mehraab", is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, i.e.
		Mihrabs first appeared in the reign of the Umayyad khalif al-Walid I (705–715).
		Mihrab serves the same 'spatial-spiritual point' of 'meeting' between the 'community of God' and 'the Spirit' as the "Holy of Holies" served for the one 'Mosque' in Jerusalem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mihrab (565 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mihrab
		Mihrab and minbar in a mosque in Yemen
		The mihrab is the position of the person leading the congregation in prayer, and is by most Muslims considered the most holy place in the mosque, even if a mihrab is never dedicated to God, but frequently to religious personalities.
		The mihrab is by both Muslim and Western scholars considered as an element taken from churches, an element added to the mosque of architectural reasons.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mihrab (1518 words)

	Mihrab - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Mihrab, a decorative niche in the particular wall of a mosque that is in the direction of Mecca.
		When the Muslims conquered Syria in 636, they took over for use as mosques many of the basilican churches that abounded there.
		Qibla, direction in which Muslims face to pray, in the direction of the Muslim holy city of Mecca.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Mihrab.html (108 words)

	The bottom portion of the inner wall is carved in marble to imitate the fencing of wooden planks
		The mihrab is the center focus of the mosque to which the congregation orients themselves in prayer.
		Since the first mihrab was in the Umayyad Mosque in Madinah (the location of Muhammed's house), scholars believe that the mihrab marks the honorary spot where Muhammad, when leading prayer, planted his lance to indicate the space where people should pray.
		Mihrab from The Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo,
	www.coloradocollege.edu /Dept/AH/courses/AH210/Mihrab/Mihrab.html (1267 words)

	Mihrab within the Mezquita, Córdoba, Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The jewel of the Mezquita is this gilded mihrab.
		This mihrab, one of the most beautiful in all of Islamic architecture, was built in 950CE by Hakam II.
		Mihrab in the Mezquita, Córdoba, Spain 950 CE
	www.glendale.edu /~rkibler/mezquitamihrab.html (416 words)

	T.C. Kultur Bakanligi / Ministry of Culture, Republic of Turkey
		The dome covering this area, which is called as the space in front of the mihrab is supported by two plasters resting on the wall facing Mecca on the south side and on the north side by arches between two L-shaped piers.
		Of the three arches bounding the bay in front of the mihrab, the east and west arches are made of smooth cut stone but the north arch is of brick.
		The semi octagonal mihrab is surmounted by a lobed kavsara resembling a half dome.
	www.discoverturkey.com /english/yeni/van/izdisir_mosque.html (1900 words)

	Some elements of the mosque - All About Turkey
		The mihrab is the position of the person leading the congregation in prayer, and is by most considered the most holy place in the mosque, even if a mihrab is never dedicated to God, but frequently to religious personalities.
		The mihrab was probably introduced in the 3rd century of Islam, in the 9th century AD.
		Mihrabs can be of wood, but is normally made out of masonry, and adorned with pillars.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /mosque2.htm (937 words)

	PRELIMINARY LISTING OF DECORATIVE STONES FOUND IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC BUILDINGS OF CAIRO
		The mihrab contains all new stones (dating from the early 1900's and including light and dark gray marbles, verde alpi, fossiliferous red limestone, broccato di Verona, fl and orange limestones, and mother-of-pearl) except for several, somewhat deteriorated panels of verde antico that are probably original.
		All of the latter appears to be new: panels of "white" and dark gray marble, and breccia rossa Appeninica; and 2 flanking columns of light gray marble with Islamic capitals.
		Flanking the mihrab are wall panels of WUE serpentinite and fl marble/limestone, and octagonal columns of light gray marble with Islamic capitals and bases.
	rubens.anu.edu.au /raider5/egypt/harrell/CAIRO_Mosques_2.htm (4269 words)

	Adventures of Moorish Spain: Cordoba. The Great Mosque. The Mihrab
		A mihrab has a double purpose: it shall indicate the exact direction towards Mecca, and in the cases where the imam leads the believers into prayer in front of it, his voice gets amplified from its round shape.
		But that mihrab was abandoned with the later additions to the mosque.
		Byzantine craftsmen were brought to Cordoba, and the mihrab is often mentioned as the finest of all Moorish religious architecture.
	www.lexicorient.com /spain/cordoba04.htm (162 words)

	PRELIMINARY LISTING OF DECORATIVE STONES FOUND IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC BUILDINGS OF CAIRO
		The same three stones were used outside the mihrab, on the east wall for a striped and joggled pattern.
		Mihrab: flanking it are 2 octagonal columns of Proconnesian marble with Islamic capitals and bases, and, on the walls on both sides, panels of fossiliferous red limestone below and porfido nero grafico above.
		In the upper part of the mihrab there is a geometric pattern in the usual light and dark gray marbles, and red and yellow to orange (astracane dorato d'Egitto?) limestones.
	rubens.anu.edu.au /harrell/CAIRO_Mosques_3.htm (4782 words)

	Details of Minarets & Mihrabs
		The hood of the niches as with the whole mihrab and its adjacent arches and piers is covered with exquisite stucco.
		The mihrab was constructed for the Il Khanid ruler Uljaytu in a prayer hall within the old mosque.
		Two wooden minbars (pulpits) flank the mihrab, the right-hand one of which is reputed locally to be contemporary with the mihrab.
	www.iranairiatravel.com /travel/details.htm (2411 words)

	Mihrab: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Mihrabs first appeared in the reign of the Umayyad khalif Caliph quick summary:
		Both the latter gusses have less historical bearing and are les convincing than the first explanation.The mihrab is considered by both Muslim and Western scholars as an element taken from churches, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The mihrab was probably introduced in the 3rd century of Islam, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/mihrab.htm (1010 words)

	PRELIMINARY LISTING OF DECORATIVE STONES FOUND IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC BUILDINGS OF CAIRO
		The rest of the mihrab appears to be new stone: light and dark gray marbles with smaller pieces of non-fossiliferous red limestone and astracane dorato d'Egitto.
		There are two mihrabs on the south side of the central one and only the closest has decorative stone and it's all new (flanking round columns of broccato di Verona, and a geometric design using light and dark gray marbles, fossiliferous red limestone, astracane dorato d'Egitto and a pink limestone conglomerate (U6).
		Within the mihrab are 2 new, light gray marble columns; the same marble is used to panel the wall of the niche.
	www.eeescience.utoledo.edu /Faculty/Harrell/Egypt/Mosques/CAIRO_Mosques_1.htm (3755 words)

	Meditation and Reflection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		A mihrab is a niche, usually concave, in the qibla (Mecca-orientated) wall of a mosque, a Muslim house of prayer.
		This is a rare early example of faience mosaic, an elaborate procedure derived from glazed-brick decoration.
		As a focus for prayer and reflection, the beautiful mosaic and inscriptions from the Koran serve to lead the mind into a quiet, reverent place.
	pratt.edu /~edeboer/mihrab.html (189 words)

	ArtLex's Mi-Mok page
		Iran, Mihrab from the Madrasa Imami in Isfahan, 755 AH / c.
		This liwan, or niche is the side of the mosque used as a madrasa by the Shafi, one of the four schools of Islamic legal and theological thought.
		This side of the mosque is used as a madrasa by the Shafi, one of the four schools of Islamic legal and theological thought.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/Mi.html (3462 words)

	TurkoTek Journal: Price on Prayer Rugs
		There is a niche, or mihrab, in one wall of every mosque, representing the portal to heaven.
		Many of these pieces have rather realistic tulips in their design, and in some of them the tulips are upside down relative to the rug's orientation with the "mihrab" at the top.
		Perhaps the arch in those pieces isn't a mihrab at all, but some kind of a concavity or container that belongs at the bottom.
	www.turkotek.com /journal/spprug.html (1859 words)

	T.C. Kultur Bakanligi / Ministry of Culture, Republic of Turkey
		However, when the excavations were completed it became evident that not all the piers were octagonal, that four piers to the north of the area in front of the mihrab niche were cylindrical and the three remaining piers to the west, square in form.
		The inner surface of the dome covering the area in front of the mihrab was richly ornamented with designs in brick and plaster.
		The orments in the area in front of the mihrab resemble those in the Kazvin Masjid-i Djuma at Kazwin (1114-15) and the plaster reliefs are very similar to the painted ones in the Olcaytu Mausoleum at Sultaniye.
	www.discoverturkey.com /english/yeni/van/great_mosque.html (969 words)

	MIHRAB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		De mihrab is een nis in een muur in de moskee die de gebedsrichting (qibla) aangeeft.
		Doorgaans zit de mihrab ergens in het midden van de muur die tegenover de ingang is. De imam (voorganger in het gebed) in de moskee bevindt zich bij deze mihrab.
		De muur zelf waarin de mihrab zich bevindt, wordt ook wel met qibla aangeduid.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/M/Mihrab (77 words)

	TurkoTek Discussion Forums - Konya Prayer Rug
		But this one can't be used with the hands on the spandrels, feet off the floor and on the rug, and head touching the mihrab when it is bowed from the kneeling position.
		If the proportionate relationship of the size of the mihrab to a rug's entire area was the standard for judging what is or is not a prayer rug, then many famous, old prayer rugs would be disqualified.
		Even if one were to use your criteria, in our rug the mihrab is topped by a bissected rectangle, a probable representation of the Ka'aba, which is what the head of the person praying would touch, and he would not have to be a contortionist to accomplish that.
	www.turkotek.com /salon_00109/s109t6.htm (923 words)

	Islamic shrines and buildings -- II
		The mihrab (a niche in the qibla wall indicating the direction of Mecca) of Cordoba is unusual in design, notes Grabar.
		The mihrab reportedly was decorated by a mosaicist with 320 bags of mosaic cubes sent to Cordoba by the Byzantine emperor.
		In 961, the Caliph al-Hakim had three bays in front of the mihrab transformed into a separate enclave that was reserved for the prince.
	www.islamicart.com /main/architecture/sites1.html (876 words)

	Mosques
		- A mihrab is a niche in the wall which points the worshipers toward Mecca.
		A minbar is a "pulpit", or a place from which a religious leader (an "imam") speaks to the people.
		One enters the mosque through an entrance, goes through a walkway (often with pillars or arches) and enters the courtyard which is a quiet, open-air place that is separated from the outside world.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch618/Architecture/Mosques.html (367 words)

	NERS Prayer Rugs, 2002, Plate 13
		The design is spaciously drawn and well balanced, with equal "visual weight" between the central medallion, the green peaked-apex mihrab, the waterbug palmettes, and the main borders of serrated leaves or stepped triangles.
		Plate 24, a similar piece from a design standpoint, with the open border figure filled with diamonds on all sides of the piece, is dated 1894, and so far the design-evolution-dating principle appears to work reasonably well.
		Either these last two authors are considerably off in their dating, or design openness is not a foolproof guide to rug age (both are possibilities, but the second is probably the safer to assume).
	www.ne-rugsociety.org /gallery/prayer-rugs-fall-2002/plate13.htm (382 words)

	M
		The mihrab is the visual or architectural peak of a mosque.
		A mihrab takes the shape of an arched niche, mostly framed by one or more pairs of colonnettes.
		The mihrab is where the Imam stations himself to lead the congregation in prayer and is typically the object of much lavish ornamentation.
	www.islamicart.com /library/enc/m.html (547 words)

	Ferdosi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Now Mihrab, who was descended from Zohak the Serpent, reigned in Cabul, yet he was worthy, prudent, and wise.
		And Zal, hearing that Mihrab was at hand, prepared a feast in his tents, and Mihrab and his train feasted with him until the night was far spent.
		Now it came to pass that on a certain morning Mihrab stepped forth from his palace to the house of the women to visit Sindokht his wife, and her daughter Rudabeh.
	www.farhangsara.com /shanhnameh_zalvarodabeh1.htm (1092 words)

	Kenya - ICOMOS World Report on Monuments and Sites in Danger 2001: Heritage @ Risk
		The north-facing wall was given extra support by the buttressing effect of the walls of the mihrab (the arched apsidal recess in the north-facing wall to point towards Mecca).
		A mihrab or pulpit of masonry or wood occurs to the right of the Mihrab, either against the wall or recessed into it.
		Notable examples include the mihrab section of the north-facing walls of mosques, most of which are still standing to date, but are continuously predisposed to threats.
	www.international.icomos.org /risk/2001/keny2001.htm (2327 words)

	MIHRAB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In der Grotte unter dem Felsendom in Jerusalem befindet sich ein 1,3 m mal 0,8 m großer Flachmihrab aus Marmor, der häufig als der älteste erhaltene Mihrab präsentiert wird.
		Baer, Eva: The Mihrab in the Cave of the Dome of the Rock, in Muqarnas, 3, S. Brisch, Klaus: Jerusalem, Felsendom, Mihrab unter dem Felsen in Propyläen Kunstgeschichte, Bd.
		Khoury, Nuha N. The mihrab image: commemorative themes in medieval Islamic architecture, in Muqarnas IX: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture, hrsg.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/M/Mihrab (656 words)

	Mosaic Mihrab, Isfahan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This mosaic mihrab (prayer niche) from the Madrasa Imami (school for advanced study by Imams) has been restored in its location in the ancient capital of Isfahan, in Persia.
		It is made of glazed and painted ceramic on plaster using a painstaking process of cutting each piece of tile, including the pieces that make up the kufic inscription around the frame of the niche.
		Such architectural elements would travel with the spread of Islam across Northern Africa and into Spain, and can be seen in throughout Andalusia (Southern Spain) in mosques in cities such as Granada, Ronda, Malaga, Cordoba, and Seville.
	www.glendale.edu /ceramics/mosaicmihrab.html (170 words)

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