Egyptian enamelled glass mosque lamp made for Amir Qawsun, ca. 1329–1335The later plain type hanging in Istanbul
Fine mosque lamps are oil lamps that typically have a large round body and a narrower neck that flares towards the top.[1] They were often made with internal containers to be filled with oil and a wick to produce light.[1] They were usually made of enamelled glass, often with gilding. Some were also made in Islamic pottery, though this was much less efficient for actual lighting. These lamps were normally hung by a circular metal frame and suspended by chains that went through a number of loops on the outside of the body. The circular frames continue to be used in many mosques today, but with plain or frosted glass lamps for electric lighting.
^ abBloom, Jonathan; Blair, Sheila (1997). Islamic Arts. Phaidon Press. pp. 280, 394. ISBN 9780714831763.
Fine mosquelamps are oil lamps that typically have a large round body and a narrower neck that flares towards the top. They were often made with internal...
Museum. These pottery mosquelamps are of a similar shape to Mamluk glass lamps. There was a tradition of hanging pottery lamps in mosques dating back at least...
After mosquelamps, the most common shape is a tall beaker, flaring towards the top. This was made somewhat differently from the mosquelamps, the flaring...
century, Brooklyn Museum Quranic inscriptions, Bara Gumbad mosque, Delhi, India Typical mosquelamp, of enamelled glass, with the Ayat an-Nur or "Verse of...
and gilding became the most important techniques of decorating glass. Mosquelamps had a bulbous body with a wide flaring neck at the top. They were produced...
fittings had not previously made much use of glass in Europe; the enamelled mosquelamp of Islamic art was a different matter. But cut glass "drops", faceted...
content, other than inscriptions, although the mosquelamp was mainly used in religious contexts, to light mosques, but it uses the decorative styles of Islamic...
Samarkand. By about 1500 the Venetians were receiving large orders for mosquelamps. Medieval Islamic metalwork offers a complete contrast to its European...
tter source needed][better source needed] The mosque was constructed in Kerala style with hanging lamps, making the historicity of its date claims more...
lit by over 1,122 halogen lamps and contains 600,000 pieces of crystal. The biggest chandelier in the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, with a diameter...
the Topkapı Palace and other buildings in Constantinople, including large mosque complexes decorated inside with architectural inscriptions. For much of...
representing the mihrab in every mosque, a directional point to direct the worshipper towards Mecca. Often one or more mosquelamps hang from the point of the...
artists such as John Singer Sargent and William Orpen. A Mamuluk glass mosquelamp, once belonging to Sassoon can be found in the collection of the Calouste...
Mecca. Many rugs also show one or more mosquelamps, a reference to the Verse of Light in the Qur'an. Specific mosques are sometimes shown; some of the most...
قوصون Enamelled glass mosquelamp of Amir Qawsun, probably intended for one of his two architectural commissions in Cairo —the mosque or a tomb-hospice complex...
been understood as a prayer rug design, because a pendant resembling a mosquelamp is suspended from one of the niches. The resulting design scheme resembles...
multifoil arches were developed by the Umayyads and can be found in a small mosque at Qasr al-Hallabat, one of the Umayyad Desert Castles, in present-day Jordan...
(Arabic: ضَرِیح) is a lattice structure which usually encloses a grave in a mosque or an Islamic shrine. In some cases, it can also surround a religious relic...
iron lamp-posts in the place of ablution for pre-prayer cleansing. The Department of Museums and Antiquities completed conservation works on the mosque in...
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