Mimar Kemaleddin
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Ahmed Kemaleddin, widely known as Mimar Kemaleddin was a renowned Turkish architect during the late Ottoman and early Republican eras. He was among the pioneers of the first national architectural movement, which was a type of Ottoman Revivalism, His lifetime saw intense and important changes for Turkish history and culture.
An old photograph of Mimar Kemaleddin
Tayyare Apartments, today the "Crowne Plaza Hotel Istanbul Old City", designed by Mimar Kemaleddin Bey
Edirne Karaağaç Tren İstasyonu (Karaağaç Railroad Station in Edirne) designed by Mimar Kemalettin Bey
Grave of Mimar Kemalettin Bey at the cemetery of the Bayezid II Mosque in Istanbul
Al-Aqsa Mosque
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The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel, is the main congregational mosque or prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. In some sources the building is also named al-Masjid al-Aqṣā, but this name primarily applies to the whole compound in which the building sits, which is itself also known as "Al-Aqsa Mosque". The wider compound is known as Al-Aqsa or Al-Aqsa mosque compound, also known as al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf.
Al-Aqsa Mosque
The mosque is situated at the Southern end of the Haram al-Sharif
The mosque along the southern wall of al-Haram al-Sharif
A 19th-century chromolithograph of the mosque's interior. The mosaic designs on the drum of the dome, the pendentives, and the archway in front of the mihrab date from the mid-11th-century Fatimid reconstruction