Opening Agenda Put your homework in the box.

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Opening AgendaPut your homework in the box.

• Things you need
• The article (this will be turned back into me)
  and the handouts off of the table
• Your religion comparison chart
• Things to do
• Opener
• Reading on Islam
• Notes Mosques and the Dome of the Rock
• In class or Homework DOR Illustration

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Opening QuizRestate the questions.Put on the
back of your religion comparision chart

• 1) In a Buddhist Temple, a pagoda is what?
• 2) Why is Buddha so important in Buddhism?
• 3) The Liurong Temple is in what country?
• 4) How tall is the pagoda on the Liurong Temple?
• 5) The architecture of the Liurong Temples
  pagoda, if viewed from the outside, is deceptive.
  Why?

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If you forgot your chart. get your own paper and
complete the following

• 1) Origins and History
• 2) Adherents
• 3) Gods and Universe
• 4) Human situation and lifes purpose
• 5) Afterlife
• 6) Practices
• 7) Texts (books)

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Islam submission to God

• Prophet Muhammad
• Mecca origin of Islam most holy city
• Ramadan holy month (9th)
• Hegira Islamic calendar
• 1500 years

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Five Pillars of Islam

• One god, Allah
• Pray 5 times a day towards Mecca.
• Donate wealth to charity.
• Ramadan fast sunrise to sunset.
• Hajj to Mecca, once in a life time

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Other interesting facts of Islam

• No pork or alcohol
• Male Circumcision
• Polygamy permitted but not practiced universally
• Loans are not allowed to carry interest

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Quran (Koran)

• Holy text of Islam
• 114 surahs (chapters)
• Arabic language of Islam
• Arabic Script
• Kufic
• -style of writing in Quran
• -decorative, usually on mosques

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Kufic Script
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The Mosque

• How does the mosques structure serve the Islamic
  community?

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Architecture/Art

• Exterior/Interior
• Allah is beyond all imagining
• -no paintings/pictures
• -intricate designs with sacred text
• -arabesques
• -decorative motif organic and geometric

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• Mosque
• -place for worship
• -place for bowing down
• Minarets
• -slender tower from which the faithful are called
  to worship
• Mihrab
• - Niche in a mosque, indicating the direction in
  which a Muslim shall perform prayer

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Elements of the Mosque

• Minaret - Tower near a mosque
• used by the muezzin to call out for people to
  come to prayer

Minaret
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Elements of the Mosque

• Mihrab - Niche in a mosque, indicating the
  direction in which a Muslim shall perform prayer
• most holy place in the mosque
• can be of wood, but is normally made out of
  masonry, and adorned with pillars
• highly ornamented

Mihrab
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Elements of the Mosque

• Minbar - Pulpit in a mosque, placed next to the
  mihrab.
• top of the minbar is restricted to the Prophet,
  only.
• place where official proclamations were made.

Minbar
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Mosque
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Dome of the Rock
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Dome of the Rock

• This shrine was built in Jerusalem by the 9th
  caliph between 688-691.
• Built not only to proclaim the supremacy of
  Islam, but to ensure that new followers of Islam
  would not be tempted by Christianity. SYMBOLIC
  STATEMENT!
• One of the reasons why Jerusalem was chosen as
  the site for the Dome of the Rock because it is
  where the prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven.

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Dome of the Rock

• DOR Site and Jerusalem
• Sacred to Christians
• Jesus died here
• Sacred also to Jews
• (where Abraham was going to sacrifice Isaac)
• Stands above the believed location of Solomon's
  Temple and Herods Temple

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Dome of the Rock

• Why is it so pretty?
• Basic structures
• Columns (different sizes), mirhab
• Details
• Full moon decoration on the top (symbolizes
  crescent moon symbol of Islam
• Turkish tiles on the top (from the restoration in
  50s-60s) and white marble on the bottom.
• Arabic inscriptions from the Quran.
• Mathematical rhythm.
• All dimensions of the center circle are related
  to the major structures.
• For example each outer wall is 67 ft. long,
  which is exactly the domes diameter and exactly
  its height from the base of the drum.

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Dome of the Rock

• How is the Dome of the Rock decorated?

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Dome of the Rock

• In the next couple of slides, you will see a
  variety of images of the Dome of the Rock.
• As you look at these images, you need to figure
  out how the Dome of the Rock is decorated.
• Once you understand how the Dome of the Rock is
  decorated, you will illustrate the front of this
  building.
• In your illustration, you need to incorporate the
  elements and principles of architecture that are
  used for the decoration of the temple.

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