المؤلف
Unknown (made)
تاريخ النشر
1700
مكان النشر
Cairo (made) Egypt (made) -
الموضوع
Africa Islam Woodwork
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Height: 420cm, Width: 11.3cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
143-1881
رقم السجل
143-1881
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1700
ملاحظات
Mihrab is a semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla; that is, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca and hence the direction that Muslims should face when praying. The wall in which a mihrab appears is thus the "qibla wall". This mihrab is a portable one, as it was not built directly into the wall structure of the mosque. Surviving portable mihrabs date back to the Fatimid period in Egypt (12th century), but this example is believed to have come from the mosque of Sheykh Abdallah, near the citadel in Cairo, and is dated to the 18th century.
İlişki
Greville John Chester
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Carved wood; painted
Fiziksel açıklama
Rectangular shaped, carved stalactite-like (or honey-comb) decorated prayer niche (mihrab), with each element painted with red, dark green and white floral sprays and arabesque patterning.
