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Ar-Rahman Mosque (Aleppo)
Ar-Rahman Mosque () is a contemporary mosque in Aleppo, Syria, located on King Faisal Street. It was opened in 1994 and features a combined style of the early Umayyad architecture and modern mosques. It has a large central dome surrounded with 2 high and 4 shorter rectangular minarets. The external walls of the mosque are decorated with stones in the form of traditional Quran pages, inscribed with some verses from the Ar-Rahman sura. Gallery File:De moskee Ar-Rahman in aanbouw - Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen - TM-20011817.jpg File:De moskee Ar-Rahman in aanbouw - Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen - TM-20011816.jpg De moskee Ar-Rahman in aanbouw - Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen - TM-20011815.jpg References Mosques completed in 1994 Architecture in Syria Umayyad architecture in Syria Mosques in Aleppo 20th-century mosques in Asia 1994 establishments in Syria Mosque buildings with domes in Syria Mosque buildings with mina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleppo
Aleppo is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Governorates of Syria, governorate of Syria. With an estimated population of 2,098,000 residents it is Syria's largest city by urban area, and was the largest by population until it was surpassed by Damascus, the capital of Syria. Aleppo is also the largest city in Syria's Governorates of Syria, northern governorates and one of the List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, largest cities in the Levant region. Aleppo is one of List of cities by time of continuous habitation#West Asia, the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it may have been inhabited since the sixth millennium BC. Excavations at Tell as-Sawda and Tell al-Ansari, just south of the old city of Aleppo, show that the area was occupied by Amorites by the latter part of the third millennium BC. That is also the time at which Aleppo is first mentioned in cuneiform tablets unearthed in Ebl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationaal Museum Van Wereldculturen
The (NMVW) () is an overarching museum organisation for the management of several ethnography, ethnographic museums in the Netherlands, founded in 2014. It consists of the Tropenmuseum () in Amsterdam, the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal (village), Berg en Dal, and the Museum Volkenkunde () in Leiden. The National Museum of World Cultures works in close cooperation with the Wereldmuseum () in Rotterdam. It is also part of nation-wide Dutch organisations for research into provenance studies and projects of restitution of cultural heritage to countries of origin, like the former Dutch Empire, Dutch colony in today's Indonesia. Structure and collections The Dutch National Museum of World Cultures (NMVW) was founded in 2014 by a merger of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, the National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands), Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden and the Africa Museum, Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal (municipality), Berg en Dal. It also oversees the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam, whose colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Establishments In Syria
The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitting December 31. This was due to an adjustment of the International Date Line by the Kiribati government to bring all of its territories into the same calendar day. Events January * January 1 ** The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established. ** Beginning of the Zapatista uprising in Mexico. * January 8 – ''Soyuz TM-18'': Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7-day orbit of the Earth, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit. * January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin. * January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which stop the prepro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
