'Timur Shah’s Mosque.' Photographer(s): Burke, John
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View of a mosque, with seven people under a tree on the right. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1879. There is a marking 'Burke 241', left edge of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011 Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT / JNO: BURKE LATE / BAKER & BURKE ...
Shah-do-Shamshira Mosque was built in the 1920s on the site of one of Kabul’s first mosques, the Mosque of the King with Two Swords, named in honour of an early Muslim king who died fighting Hindu invaders. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon
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View from across a river of a Mosque on the right and a bridge on the left. Snow is on the ground. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital,...
Cairo, home of the Arabian Nights, greatest city of Africa, [view looking] N.W. from Saladin's Citadel to Nile, Egypt. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
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Stereoscopic view, overlooking Ramleh Place and the Sultan Hasan Mosque. Copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood, 1904.
Cairo, looking S.W. across city to Pyramids that furnished stone for many of its buildings. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
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Stereoscopic view. 'That high-walled building at the extreme left is the mosque of Rifa'iyeh. Between the dome with the peak awry and the distant sand-hills you notice a horizontal whitish streak—that is the court of the oldest mosque in Cairo, built in 877-879 A.D. by Ibn Tulun, the first inde...