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Subject Mosques Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. 1781.b.6/1

Reference (shelfmark):
1781.b.6/1
Title:
'Die Moschee und der nordwestliche Theil der Stadt'.
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter This panoramic view over Mecca showing most of the Masjid al-Haram and the northwest portion of the city is likely a print of a drawing after a photograph or series of photographs of the same view by the Mekkan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār. Numbers ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1888
Extent:

1 print (possibly lithographic) of a drawing after a photograph

2. 1781.b.6/2

Reference (shelfmark):
1781.b.6/2
Title:
'Die Moschee'.
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This south-southwest view inside the Masjid al-Haram of the Caaba and surrounding structures is a print of a drawing after a photograph of the same view by the Meccan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār. This photograph, in the collection of the Universitei...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1888
Extent:

1 print (possibly lithographic) of a drawing after a photograph

3. Add Or 5363

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5363
Title:
Salim Chisti's Tomb, Jami Masjid, Fatehpur Sikri.
Scope & Content:
Salim Chishti’s Tomb, Fatehpur Sikri. 10.5 by 7 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 Item

4. IOR/R/15/2/1281

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1281
Title:
File 6/62 Ruined mosques in Bahrain, correspondence regarding
Scope & Content:
The file contains the following: a letter from Major Claude Edward Bremner, Political Agent, Muscat, to Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent, Bahrain, in which he reports the poor state of many of the town's mosques and enquires about any procedure of repair or removal that may ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1933-28 Jan 1934
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

5. Mss Eur B235/1/opp p88

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B235/1/opp p88
Title:
Ibrahim Roza. One of the most beautiful buildings in Bijapore. Photographer: Unknown.
Scope & Content:
View of the Ibrahim Rauza tomb (foreground) and mosque.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
Unspecified

6. Or 11533

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11533
Title:
Futuh al-Haramain, a poetical description of the Holy Places and the rites of pilgrimage by Muhyi al-Din Lari. Seventeen miniatures.
Scope & Content:
‘Futuh al-Haramain’, a poetical description of the Holy Places and the rites of pilgrimage by Muhyi al-Din Lari. Seventeen miniatures. Probably Persian, sixteenth century. Literature: Handlist, p.73. Titley no. 256. f.18b. The Haram at Mecca with the Ka‘bah in the centre. f.20a. The Safa and ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1500-1600
Extent:
1 Item

7. P3228(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
P3228(3)
Title:
'Section of Diagram explanatory of the Mosques at Ahmadabad.' Copper plate used for printed picture in James Fergusson, 'A History of Indian and Eastern Architecture'. London: John Murray, 1910. Volume 2, number 390, page 233. Artist(s): Fergusson, James (1808-1886)
Scope & Content:
'Section of Diagram explanatory of the Mosques at Ahmadabad.' Copper plate used for printed picture in James Fergusson, 'A History of Indian and Eastern Architecture'. London: John Murray, 1910. Volume 2, number 390, page 233.. Artist(s): Fergusson, James (1808-1886)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 Item

8. WD3476

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3476
Title:
'A Mussulman Temple, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of a mosque or mausoleum at Aden, which may be an earlier incarnation of the Mosque of Abu Bakr al-‘Aydarus. The original building was constructed in the fifteenth century but heavily reconstructed at some point in the nineteenth century, perhaps after this sketch was...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-54
Extent:
1 pencil drawing on paper

9. WD3476

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3476
Title:
'A Mussulman Temple, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of a mosque or mausoleum at Aden, which may be an earlier incarnation of the Mosque of Abu Bakr al-‘Aydarus. The original building was constructed in the fifteenth century but heavily reconstructed at some point in the nineteenth century, perhaps after this sketch was...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-54
Extent:
1 pencil drawing on paper