File: Great Mosque of Djenné 3. jpg | Great Mosque of Djenné, famous building made from banco, a type of adobe

The Great Mosque of Djenné | Great Mosque's signature trio of minarets overlooks the central market of Djenné.

* Ulu Camii ( the Great Mosque )

Construction on what would in time become the world famous Great Mosque of Córdoba was started circa the year 786.

The Great Mosque of Córdoba.

The Ottoman sultan Bayezid I built the Bayezid Külliyesi ( Bayezid I theological complex ) in Bursa between 1390 and 1395 and the Ulu Cami ( Great Mosque ) between 1396 and 1400.

File: Great Mosque Minaret-Kairouan, Tunisia. jpg | Ribbed cupola crowns the minaret of the Mosque of Uqba, in Kairouan, Tunisia.

Marble columns with antique capitals in the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan also known as the Mosque of Uqba, city of Kairouan, Tunisia

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba also called the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ); performing the prayer or Salat is one of the five pillars of Islam.

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) considered as the oldest place of worship in the Western Islamic World, it is located in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

A monumental gate of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan also known as the Mosque of Uqba, in Kairouan, Tunisia.

The Great Mosque of Kilwa Kisiwani, made of Coral | Coral Stones is the largest Mosque of its kind.

The Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, was built in 670 and is the most prestigious mosque in the western Islamic world.

Built soon after the conquest of northwest Africa, the first mosque built in this region is the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ) founded by the Umayyad general Uqba Ibn Nafi during the second half of the 7th century and considered as the oldest place of worship in the western Islamic world.

Minaret of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan

The oldest standing minaret in the world is the minaret of the Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, built between the 8th and the 9th century, it is a massive square tower consisting of three superimposed tiers of gradual size and decor.

Hypostyle prayer hall in the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan also called the Mosque of Uqba

One of the finest examples of the hypostyle-plan mosques is the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also known as the Mosque of Uqba ) in Tunisia.

* Great Mosque of Kairouan ( Okba Ibn Nafi Mosque in Kairouan )

The roofs ( with domes ) of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan also called the Mosque of Uqba, located in Kairouan, Tunisia

View of the western enclosing wall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

Example of a religious building: the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ), founded in 670, dates in its present state principally from the 9th century.

The Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan is located in the city of Kairouan, Tunisia.

Hall in religious buildings: prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan, in Kairouan, Tunisia

Along the 127-mile route through Great Smoky Mountains National Park you can photograph the breath-taking peaks, gorges and valleys which come into view at every turn.

I am selling the stuff of which is made one of the Great American Dreams -- wall-to-wall carpeting.

On July 14 the Security Council -- with France and Great Britain abstaining -- voted the resolution which drew the U.N. into the Congo.

Some were clearly of Christian origin, among them the Great Awakening and other revivals which helped to make Christian liberty, Christian equality, and Christian fraternity the passion of the land.

For this latest addition to the Great Letters Series, under the general editorship of Louis Kronenberger, Miss Hardwick has made a selection which admirably displays the variety of James's genius, not to mention the felicities of his style.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

In the aftermath of the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923, which devastated Tokyo, Heigo took the 13-year-old Akira to view the devastation.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

Similarly, an article ( written from an in-universe perspective ) in the Call of Cthulhu tabletop role-playing game speculates that it may be a corruption of Abd Al-Azrad, which it claims translates to The Worshipper of the Great Devourer.

From 2004 to 2005, Japanese TV network NHK produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, which features both Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

* 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

He also developed, during the Great Depression, the populist economic theory of " Direct Credits ", according to which banks are the cause of all economic woe, the oppressors of both capital and labour.

ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).

The reign of Ahmed III, which had lasted for twenty-seven years, although marked by the disasters of the Great Turkish War, was not unsuccessful.

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

The Saint Albert the Great Science Academy in San Carlos City, Pangasinan, which offers preschool, elementary and high school education, takes pride in having St. Albert as their patron saint.

Apart from the lost Handboc or Encheiridion, which seems to have been a commonplace book kept by the king, the earliest work to be translated was the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, a book greatly popular in the Middle Ages.

* All Tomorrow's Parties ( music festival ), a music festival which takes place in Great Britain

Partly for this reason, Alberta has never developed a large presence in the industries that have traditionally started industrialization in other places ( notably the original Industrial Revolution in Great Britain ) but which require large labour forces, and large internal markets or easy transportation to export markets, namely textiles, metallurgy, or transportation-related manufacturing ( automotives, ships, or train cars ).

This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.

He was said to have been born in c. 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometers northwest of Athens, which is nestled in the fertile valleys of western Attica, though the date is most likely based on counting back forty years from his first victory in the Great Dionysia.

By virtue of Article II of the Treaty of Union, which defined the succession to the throne of Great Britain, the Act of Settlement became part of Scots Law as well.