Dzhumaya mosque

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Dzhumaya Mosque is the main Muslim temple in Plovdiv.The mosque is located in the centre of Plovdiv and was built in the place of Sveta Petka Tarnovska Cathedral Church soon after the town was conquered by the Ottoman army (1363 – 1364).Dzhumaya Mosque is one of the oldest Ottoman religious buildings on the Balkans. It is also one of the biggest: it is an imposing rectangular building with a 33 m-by-27 m prayer hall. It reveals influences from Byzantine and old Bulgarian architectural techniques: two layers of brick laid on top of each layer of cut stone.In contrast to later single-domed mosques, the Dzhumaya belongs to the so-called multi-domed mosques. It has nine domes covered with sheets of lead. A minaret is erected at the northeast corner of the main façade, decorated with a diagonal square meshwork of red bricks on white mortar plaster.The interior of the mosque is decorated with floral ornament wall-paintings, such as twigs, blossoms and garlands that are intertwined with medallions quoting the Koran. #balkan #bulgaria #dome #europe #koran #middle_ages #minaret #mosque #muslim #ottoman #palm #plovdiv #religion #temple #tower #turkey