Leaning Tower of Pisa – Italy
Leaning Tower of Pisa Why did Pisa build a Leaning Tower? The Leaning Tower of Pisa wasn't supposed to lean at all. It was supposed to just be the bell [...]
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Mosques – medieval Islamic architecture
Mosque history - Al-Azhar Mosque, Cairo (Egypt, 900s AD) What is a mosque? A mosque (MAH-SK) is a kind of building where people who follow the Islamic faith pray to God. Mosque [...]
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What is a minaret? Islamic architecture
Kairouan's minaret - the oldest minaret still standing today. What is a minaret? A minaret is a tower that Islamic holy men called muezzins climb in order to call out [...]
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Kairouan Mosque – Islamic architecture
Kairouan mosque - the courtyard When was the Great Mosque at Kairouan built? The Islamic governors of Tunisia built the Great Mosque at Kairouan in the 800s AD, in the time [...]
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Almohad architecture
Minaret of Koutoubia mosque, Marrakesh (Morocco, 1100s AD) Almohads built a lot of buildings When the Almohads first conquered Morocco and Spain from the Almovarids in the 1100s AD, they showed their strength by building [...]
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Architecture of the Abbasid Caliphate
Minaret at Samarra, 847 AD The Abbasids built Baghdad When the Abbasid dynasty moved the capital of the Islamic Empire to Baghdad from Damascus in 762 AD, of course they needed a lot of [...]
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Chinese pagodas – Architecture – China
Song Dynasty pagoda (Hong Kong) About 200 AD, near the end of the Han Dynasty, people in China began to hear about the new religion of Buddhism, which had started in [...]
