Jan 10, 2020
Mihrab of Uljaitu Khodabendeh in the Friday Mosque of Isfahan, Iran
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Mihrab of Uljaitu Khodabendeh in the Friday Mosque of Isfahan, Iran
Gardener at the Khiva Friday Mosque by ©Laura Quick
It was over 100 degrees, so he had to be hotter than hell in that hat, but how handsome is he? He wasn’t posing so much as he stopped working and looked over.
BOLO HAOUZ MOSQUE by ©Laura Quick
Bolo Haouz Mosque is a historical mosque in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Built in 1712, on the opposite side of the citadel of Ark in Registan district, it is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list along with the other parts of the historic city. It served as a Friday mosque during the time when the emir of Bukhara was being subjugated under the Bolshevik Russian rule in 1920s. Thin columns made of painted woods were added to the frontal part of the iwan (entrance) in 1917, additionally supporting the bulged roof of summer prayer room. The columns are decorated with colored muqarnas.
Old Delhi
Compared with the planned streets of parts of New Delhi, Old Delhi seems more typically Indian, packed with people, traffic, and noise, a much livelier experience. A rickshaw ride was an entertaining introduction to the narrow streets of the Chawri Bazaar, though the speed and lack of light made photography challenging. The sheer quantity of overhead cables was impressive if a little worrying.
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The 15th century Djumaya Djamiya or Friday Mosque stands alongside the north end of a 2nd century AD Roman stadium in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
BOLO HAOUZ MOSQUE FRONT DETAIL by ©Laura Quick
Bolo Haouz Mosque is a historical mosque in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Built in 1712, on the opposite side of the citadel of Ark in Registan district, it is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list along with the other parts of the historic city. It served as a Friday mosque during the time when the emir of Bukhara was being subjugated under the Bolshevik Russian rule in 1920s. Thin columns made of painted woods were added to the frontal part of the iwan (entrance) in 1917, additionally supporting the bulged roof of summer prayer room. The columns are decorated with colored muqarnas.
Fandor is streaming two of Iranian filmmaker Azadeh Navai’s films.
As part of today’s #DirectedbyWomen 12+ hour Film Feast I watched them both.
Her silent avant-garde short Friday Mosque:
“A silent meditation on the Islamic prayer ritual through motion (water is the core, but light is the cause) in FRIDAY MOSQUE. Shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, Navai hand processed the negative and painstakingly contact- printed the strips of celluloid. The resulting image quivers and pulses. Enlarged film grain nearly obliterates the already abstracted image. There exists both a tension and serenity in the flickering frame.”
Her documentary Remembering the Pentagons:
“With an old 16mm Bolex and a hand-made pinhole camera, Navai returns to Tehran and Esfahan, Iran, where the perceptions and recollections of places, emotions and scents serve as vehicles through which she exposes a deeply personal landscape. She asks, what is the texture of memory? In what ways does time, the light, wind and air of history wear upon the monuments and the images of the past?
Have you explored Azadeh Navai’s work?
Tashkent - Uzbekistan
Kukeldash Madrasah & Khoja Akhrar Mosque ( Friday mosque )