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Friday, March 7, 2014

7 MOST BEAUTIFUL MOSQUES IN THE WORLD

1. Masjid Sultan Ahmed, Turkey


The mosque is popularly known as the Blue Mosque and built near the Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine empire istan in Istanbul. The construction which started in 1609 and even take up to 7 years. When visiting this mosque, tourists will see six slender towers that surround the Sultan Ahmed Mosque. Previously, in the complex of the mosque there are madrasas, hospitals, elementary, and even the tomb of its founder's own market. However, most of the buildings demolished in the 19th century.

2. Faisal Mosque, Pakistan


The mosque is located in the area with the background Bukin very beautiful Margalla Hills in Islamabad, Pakistan. This mosque is the largest in Asia South. This mosque was designed by architect Vedat Dalokay originating from Turkey. The roof of the mosque is shaped like a desert tent Bedouin tribe. Because in height, this mosque can be seen by tourists from afar, like any good in daylight in the evenings. Currently regarded as the National Masid Pakistan.

3. Nabawi Mosque, Saudi Arabia


The mosque is located in Medina is considered the second holiest mosque in the world built in the history of Islam by the Prophet Muhammad. In the middle of this mosque there is a regular pulpit preaching Apostle place. The last renovation of the mosque was carried out under the leadership of King Fahd. Now, this masji even include air conditioning and decorated with marble.

4. Masjid Sultan Omar Ali Saiduddin, Brunei Darussalam

 

The mosque is located in Bandar Seri Begawan , capital of Brunei Darussalam. Khubah gold this mosque is very special because it can glow at night. In addition to the main dome is covered with pure gold, the mosque is also decorated with marble pillars which are imported directly from Italy, granite floor was from Shanghai.Crystal lamps and carpet are also imported from the UK and Saudi Arabia.

5. Crystal Mosque, Malaysia 

The mosque is located in the Parks Islamic civilization on the island of Wan Man, Terengganu, Malaysia. The mosque is very grand because it was built with steel construction, glass and crystal. This mosque was built in 2006 and was completed in 2008. The inauguration of the mosque was held on February 8, 2008 by Yang in 13th-Pertuan Agung, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu.





6. Kul-Sharif Mosque, Russia


The mosque is located in Kazan Kremlin, Russia. The mosque is often called the largest mosque in Russia and Europe, of course, outside Istanbul. This mosque was built in the Kazan Kremlin century to the 16th. Then this mosque Kul-Sharif called. Kul-Sharif is the name of a priest who worked there. Kul-Sharif himself died together when their students maintain Kazan of the Russian occupation in 1552.

7. Great Mosque of Djenne, Mali



Highway mosque is unique because it is made with the world's largest mud and environmentally friendly. The mosque is located near the Bani River, City of Djenne, Mali, Africa. This mosque was built at the request of former French colonial government in 1906. The mosque is also considered as one of the best examples of the style of architecture in the region south of the Sahara.





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7 WONDERS OF NATURE ARE RARE BUT NOT RARE

1. Rainbow Month


 





Rainbow occurs because the sun shines on droplets of dew, usually occurs in the atmosphere after the rain. More rare moonbow, only visible at night when the moon was at a low point during the full moon almost full. One popular place to look is at the waterfall Moonbow Cumberland, kentucky USA.



2. Mirage

A mirage appears when refracted light and produce an image of an object or the sky when in fact no. This phenomenon usually occurs on hot surfaces, such as asphalt roads or desert sand.





3. Belt of Venus

Belt of Venus is a phenomenon that appears at the time when a bunch of dusty twilight sky appear reddish and brownish between the sky and the horizon.



4. Mammatus clouds



A strange cloud shape is often associated with storms, and can not fully understand how clouds are formed.


5. Aurora Borealis



In the southern hemisphere is also known by the name of Aurora Australis, Aurora Borealis are charged particles from the sun that has reached the top of the earth's atmosphere and become very active. Aurora is usually often seen in areas near the poles and at the time when day and night equal in length.


6. Noctilucent clouds



Noctilucent clouds are very high clouds in the atmosphere that refract light at dusk when the sun had sunk, illuminating / illuminating the sky with invisible light source.


7. Fire whirls


Vortex tornado spinning fire is too close to the forest fires or vortex formed because there is too much heat in the area.






7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD'S MOST FRIGHTENING

1. Funeral Sedlec, Czech Republic



One place to see the collection of human remains in the world, is located in Sedlec cemetery in the Czech Republic. A small church building is located on the outskirts of Kutna Hora, has been met by more than 40,000 human skeleton. As a result, this church became known as the Church of Bone (Bone Church), thousands more bones are arranged into a room and wake up there is in this church.Room ornaments, religious symbols, stair railings, and much more.

In 1278, a monk named Henry undertake a spiritual journey to the place Jesus Christ was buried. On his return from his travels, he carries a small amount of soil from the grave. He then cast the land into various rooms in Sedlec Cemetery, and attempt to cleanse the burial ground. As a result, everyone assumed that the Sedlec cemetery is a sacred place and the best for a person's body is buried, so that at the end of the cemetery could no longer accommodate the bodies to be buried. Finally in 1511, the bodies that have been buried again exhumed, their bones then store the outdoors.

2. Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome, Italy

Santa Maria della Concezione is one of the most beautiful places, so that no one who believes that death is a scary thing. Inside the church appears to be more than 4,000 bones of Capuchin monks are arranged so artistically, so it looks beautiful. Some of the bones are still equipped with a Capuchin monk robes, but some rearranged into works of art be it a symbol or a room ornament. A plaque inscription was found in the dalamruangan and said, "What do you experience today, is that we have ever experienced. What we are experiencing now, is what you will experience. "It is a warning about the impending death in the course of human life. A warning is warm and soothing.

3. Funeral Brno, Czech Republic

Bruno Cemetery is a cemetery located below St.Jacob Square has existed since hundreds of years ago. When a new building project has been determined and will be implemented in 2001, an archaeological ekpsplorasi activities were carried out. And how surprised archaeologists, nearly 50,000 human skeletons were found looks filled the underground tunnels. Some skeleton exhumed in order to gain space for new bodies, it looks like it's made so many skeletons visible inside the tunnel space. Never at a time-frame shells are closely packed together tightly enough, until then there was a flood and hit all the existing frameworks in the tunnel. Then the City of Brno doing a restoration effort in 2010 to 2011. It seems cemetery Brno is the second largest in the world. And this cemetery is not a scary place, but this place is a place to establish a relationship between life and death, a place to meditate.


4. Capela dos Ossos, Evora, Portugal


Capela dos Ossos, or better known by the name of the Chapel of Bones (Bones Chapel), located alongside the Church St. Francis is one of the attractions in the city of Evora, Portugal. Capela dos Ossos was built in the 16th century, with the aim of controlling the needs of the local community burial ground. One of the interesting room is where there are two bodies that dried-man and little boy, hanging by a chain on the wall of the room. Their identity is not known, but based on the narrative of the local community, their relationship is a father and son, were being mean to the mother / wife and then condemned.


5. Chapel of Skulls, Czermna, Poland


The story about the existence of the Skull Chapel (Kaplica Czazek) is one of the highlights of the other churches in Poland. This chapel was made between the years 1776 and 1804, when a pastor Republic and assisted several local gravediggers, spend countless hours digging and lifting bodies are uncountable, because it is a mass grave. They are finding a skull with attractive conditions and then separated from the other bones. The skull is interesting is that one of them has a bullet hole in his head, allegedly during his lifetime he was a politician. Some of the bones brought into the chapel.Overall the pastor has found 24,000 skulls in the excavation. Some of them are 16 feet in the depths of the soil, but only about 3,000 bones were adorned and filled the chapel, the priests Republic named this room the "sanctuary of silence."


6. Skull Tower of Niš, Serbia


Skull Tower in Serbia is one of the buildings that have a collection of bones, and intended to scare those who see it. Indeed, the way used for hundreds of years in the past, precisely in 1809 when the Serb rebel fighters suffered significantly as a result of the shock troops against the Ottoman Empire.To curb the flow of fighters Serbian uprising, a Turkish commander ordered his men to cut off the head of the body of the deceased, gather and compile them to become a fortress, it is used as a warning to those who try to fight the empire. A total of 952 skull rumored to be part of the fortress, but over time there is a claim and bring a lot of skulls that are considered family members, to date only 58 skulls left alone in the tower Niš.


7. Paris Catacombs

In the southern part of Paris, the French capital turns out there is a wide place in the form of underground labyrinths are used to store about more than 6 million human remains inside. The underground labyrinth has a total length of approximately 300 kilometers and has a lot of hallway - the hallway branching so that if people are trying to break into it so maybe he got lost.
Amount bodies stored in the Catacombs nearly three times the population living on The maze is Paris.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD

7 wonders of the world was listed by the Greeks during the times of classical Antiquity again, and founded the traveler guidebook lists the Greek Hellenic age structure found only in the Mediterranean alone. Number 7 is selected as the Greeks regarded the number represents excellence and 'many'. However, to this day many more lists in figure 7 was made ​​for a medieval building 7 also modern building name and also 7 other natural wonders. There are also 7 wonders list names building the Islamic civilization and 7 again the list of ancient man built out from the Mediterranean coast.


1. Pyramids
The Great Pyramids were built between 2650-2500. It is said that the pyramid - the Pyramid of Khufu is the tomb of the pharaoh. It is located in Giza, Egypt. The largest pyramid is 756 feet long on each side and 450 feet high. It consists 2300000 blocks, that each weighing two and a half tons. It took 20 years to 100,000 slaves to build pyramids. It takes 112 people to lift each block separately.



2. The Hanging Gardens Of Babylon

In some stories, people say that the Hanging Gardens of up to hundreds of feet into the air, but through modern archaeological exploration found to be not so great. The ancient city of Babylon, under King Nebuchadnezzar II, might have to make the visitors feel amazed in the past. In 450 BC, a historian named Herodotus wrote, "In addition to the size, Babylon surpassed any city in the known world." Herodotus said the outer walls 80 feet thick, 320 feet high and 56 miles long. He said that it is wide enough for a four-horse chariot to turn in it. Fortresses and temples containing immense statues of solid gold in the inner wall. Top cities famous tower of Babel, which is a temple of God Marduk. It looks like it will reach the sky.


Babylon rarely received rain and gardens to survive, it must have been irrigated with water from the Euphrates River. People will be forced to lift water very much up in the air at every level. A chain pump may be used to help. A chain pump is two large wheels on top of each other. Bucket suspended on a chain that connects the wheels. Bucket go into the water, then come and get into the new pool back into the water to be replenished. Water at the top then emptied through the door into the artificial stream channels such as water parks. The park is not only difficult to get water to the top, but also want to avoid having the foundation crack the water as soon as it is released. Stone - rocks are hard to be found in Mesopotamia. Most of the buildings in the Babylonian bricks.


3.The Temple Of Zeus




Olympics made ​​to honor the god Zeus. It was held in the sanctuary of Zeus, located near the western edge of the city Greece called Peloponnesus. The statue was built simple at first, but when the game became more popular all the people say that they have to have a new, larger temple fit for the king of the gods. Between 470 BC and 460 BC a new temple was begun. Pembinanya is Libon Elis and his masterpiece, the Temple of Zeus, completed in 456 BC. It was built on a rectangular platform raised. The supported by 13 large pillars and six on each end. Although the temple is considered great, many felt that it was not good enough for the King of the Gods.

4.The Colossus of Rhodes 







It is sometimes called the "Modern Colossus," but more often called the Statue of Liberty. Statue of Liberty is pretty much like the Colossus. Both were built as a celebration of freedom. Originally, Colossus stood over 2,000 years ago on the island of Rhodes. It is located off the southwestern tip of Asia Minor where the Aegean Sea meets the Mediterranean Sea. City Tower, Rhodes, built in the year 408 BC In 357 BC the island was conquered by Mausolus of Halicarnassus (one of the seven wonders of the others) to fall to Persia in 340 BC and was eventually conquered by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. 



5.The Lighthouse Of Alexandria
The first lighthouse was built that was built in 290 BC. The purpose of the lighthouse was built to guide ships as - the ship far at sea towards the mainland and the port. The flashing light at night can give hope to the lost ship during a storm. Alexander the Great had seventeen cities named after him. Most of them do not exist anymore except for Alexandria, Egypt. The city where the Lighthouse of Alexandria stood. Alexander died in 323 BC the city was completed by Ptolemy Soter, the new ruler of Egypt. The city became rich. City needed a symbol and a mechanism to guide ships into port trade. Ptolemy began to build a lighthouse in 290 BC It was completed 20 years later and the first lighthouse in the world. It is also the tallest building except the Great Pyramid.

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6.Temple Of Artemis

Temple of Artemis is one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. It is so large that it took 120 years to make the temple. It's hard to believe but it is one of the largest temples built in ancient times. The temple was built in 550 BC on the basis of which measured 377 by 40 feet. It stands Aphasias Greek city, on the west coast we all know as Turkey. The entire temple is marble except for the roof tiles covered timber. It was built as a dedication to the Greek goddess Artemis.

7.The Mausoleum Of Halicarnassus

In 377 BC the city of Halicarnassus, small government headquarters along the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor. It was that year that Hecatomnus Mylasa, died and left the control of the kingdom to his son Mausolus. Mausolus in his territory to expand even further that it finally included most of Asia Minor. Mausolus, with his queen Artimisia, ruled Halicarnassus and the surrounding area for 24 years. Mausolus, though he fell from a local resident, spoke Greek and admired the Greek government and way of life. He founded many cities of Greek design along the coast and encouraged Greek democratic traditions. 

Later in the year 353 BC, Mausolus died, leaving Artimisia captivity. As a tribute to him , he decided to build a magnificent tomb . It became a structure so famous that Mausolus 's name is now associated with all the tombs in our modern world - " tomb " The building is so beautiful and unique it became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world !