{"id":27988,"date":"2010-12-04T04:51:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=27988"},"modified":"2010-12-04T04:51:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T02:51:12","slug":"fujairah-mosque-replica-of-istanbul-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/04\/fujairah-mosque-replica-of-istanbul-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Fujairah mosque replica of Istanbul masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Zacharias<\/p>\n<p>Last Updated: Dec 4, 2010<\/p>\n<p>The name of the architect is a secret, but the new mosque in Fujairah is a close replica of Istanbul&#8217;s Suleymaniye Mosque, which was designed by Mimar Sinan, a leading Ottoman architect. Built between 1550 and 1558, the Suleymaniye Mosque still dominates the Turkish city.<\/p>\n<p>Mosques based on foreign designs are popular in the UAE, said Dr Ahmed Mokhtar, an associate professor of architecture at the American University of Sharjah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new mosque designs in the UAE typically belong to somewhere else, so it&#8217;s not strange to have something from a different part of the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The designers typically will be coming from outside this region, and historically even the owners will have some kind of Islamic history in mind, and they want to replicate that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People build large religious buildings because they stay forever. A mosque will not be demolished. It will always say: &#8216;We were here, we were capable of doing these things&#8217;. It talks about the people who built it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Zacharias Last Updated: Dec 4, 2010 The name of the architect is a secret, but the new mosque in Fujairah is a close replica of Istanbul&#8217;s Suleymaniye Mosque, which was designed by Mimar Sinan, a leading Ottoman architect. Built between 1550 and 1558, the Suleymaniye Mosque still dominates the Turkish city. Mosques based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[3564],"class_list":["post-27988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uae","tag-the-suleymaniye-mosque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}