Spectacular Architecture and Art

[Indus Pakistan]

Then Islamic period

 

[Attila the Hun]

Okay guy's nice stuff. I particulary like that fort with the girl sitting there - gives you vertigo. Here from land of the pure

Largest fort in the world - How does 16 miles circumferance sound? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranikot_Fort

How does this grab you?

or this

What the heck!! This is wonderful!! Post some more, please.
And how are you buddy?

 

[EgyptianAmerican]

Kot Diji

Greek inspired architecture before the Italians even figured out what you do with stone.

Wow, I would love to see more structures from Pakistan ,seems like such a mysterious place loaded with history and beauty.

 

[Attila the Hun]

The World Famous Pyramids of Giza!

Great Pyramid of Giza

Wonders of the ancient world

The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.

Based on a mark in an interior chamber naming the work gang and a reference to fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu, Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built as a tomb over a 10 to 20-year period concluding around 2560 BC. Initially at 146.5 metres (481 feet), the Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for more than 3,800 years. Originally, the Great Pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface; what is seen today is the underlying core structure. Some of the casing stones that once covered the structure can still be seen around the base. There have been varying scientific and alternative theories about the Great Pyramid's construction techniques. Most accepted construction hypotheses are based on the idea that it was built by moving huge stones from a quarry and dragging and lifting them into place.

There are three known chambers inside the Great Pyramid. The lowest chamber is cut into the bedrock upon which the pyramid was built and was unfinished. The so-called[1] Queen's Chamber and King's Chamber are higher up within the pyramid structure. The main part of the Giza complex is a setting of buildings that included two mortuary temples in honor of Khufu (one close to the pyramid and one near the Nile), three smaller pyramids for Khufu's wives, an even smaller "satellite" pyramid, a raised causeway connecting the two temples, and small mastabas tombs surrounding the pyramid for nobles.

These 3 below will be some extremely illegal pictures in which no way I endorse but none the less they are great photos. ( I hope these guys were arrested )

Now some more legal pictures.

That's a lot of land, who were you planning on repelling that you would need such a large fort? Genghis khan and his hordes?

LOL but that wall is certainly amazing and beautiful in a useful kind of way. Great job

No more Egypt, it's too beautiful, and not fair!!!

 

[Indus Pakistan]

 

[EgyptianAmerican]

No more Egypt, it's too beautiful, and not fair!!!

Ok,ok I will let people catch up. Hopefully some other people can start adding to the collection.

 

[Fenrir]

Borgund's stave church

One in Heddal.

And another in Lom.

While upwards of 1000 Stave churches were built in Norway from wood during the Middle Ages (from the 5th to 15th century), only 31 still exist.

Norway is more culturally religious then religious in practice and takes a lot of its traditions, architecture and culture from Christianity, though Norway is primarily Lutheran with some 80% of the nation identifying as such.

Catholicism is next at around 3%.

 

[EgyptianAmerican]

Borgund's stave church

One in Heddal.

And another in Lom.

While upwards of 1000 Stave churches were built in Norway from wood during the Middle Ages (from the 5th to 15th century), only 31 still exist.

These are amazing, what happened to the rest?

 

[Indus Pakistan]

And you wanna really play? like go back in time. You know when @MarkusS people were running around grunting with one hand in front and another back and trying to figure out how to weave a piece of cloth to get some privacy? Like all the wau back to 8,000 BCE? Okay here goes ..

Link > http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1876/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harappa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohenjo-daro

7000BCE Mohenjo Daro

Greek period post Alexander's conquest


Taxila and SirKap and two major sites with various empires. From Greek, Achaemenid Persian to Buddhist. Both are treasure trove coins and other art. There is a musuem nearby. Taxila is only 5 miles from capital of Pakistan, Islamabad.

 

[Attila the Hun]

Ok,ok I will let people catch up. Hopefully some other people can start adding to the collection.

Haha, god no, keep posting bro.!!
I love Egypt!

Borgund's stave church

One in Heddal.

And another in Lom.

While upwards of 1000 Stave churches were built in Norway from wood during the Middle Ages (from the 5th to 15th century), only 31 still exist.

Norway is more culturally religious then religious in practice and takes a lot of its traditions, architecture and culture from Christianity, though Norway is primarily Lutheran with some 80% of the nation identifying as such.

Catholicism is next at around 3%.

Just beautiful!!! Churches are great .

 

[EgyptianAmerican]

Haha, god no, keep posting bro.!!
I love Egypt!

Post some more things of Turkey. You guys are just flooding with beauty in your country. Show us some more!

 

[Indus Pakistan]

From Greek Gandhara period

Most of the Greek period coins etc are kept at the Taxila Museum near Islamabad.

 

[Attila the Hun]

Post some more things of Turkey. You guys are just flooding with beauty in your country. Show us some more!

Will do, just taking a break. I will be camping here from now on.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

From the British period. St. Patricks Cathedral, Karachi

Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore

Abottabad, near where OBL was hiding.

This is just a small sample of a journey that began with one of the earliest civilizations on earth at Harrapa/Mohenjo Daro/Indus contemperory to Nile, Egypt, Tigri/Euphrats Mesopotomia over 8,000 years ago all the way to the present day Pakistsan. You don't see this with all the news about bombing, terrorism and the rest.

 

[EgyptianAmerican]

This one guys has a lot of history behind it and is a very big deal in Egypt and the Islamic world.

Al-Azhar Mosque

"Al-Azhar Mosque (Arabic: الجامع الأزهر‎‎ al-Gām3` al-Azhar, "mosque of the most resplendent") is a mosque in Islamic Cairo in Egypt. Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah of the Fatimid Caliphate commissioned its construction for the newly established capital city in 970. Its name is usually thought to allude to the Islamic prophet Muhammad's daughter Fatimah, a revered figure in Islam who was given the title az-Zahrā′ ("the shining or resplendent one"). It was the first mosque established in Cairo, a city that has since gained the nickname "the City of a Thousand Minarets."[nb 1]

After its dedication in 972, and with the hiring by mosque authorities of 35 scholars in 989, the mosque slowly developed into what is today the second oldest continuously run university in the world after Al Karaouine in Umayyad Fes. Al-Azhar University has long been regarded as the foremost institution in the Islamic world for the study of Sunni theology and sharia, or Islamic law. The university, integrated within the mosque as part of a mosque school since its inception, was nationalized and officially designated an independent university in 1961, following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.

Over the course of its over a millennium-long history, the mosque has been alternately neglected and highly regarded. Because it was founded as a Shiite Ismaili institution, Saladin and the Sunni Ayyubid dynasty that he founded shunned al-Azhar, removing its status as a congregational mosque and denying stipends to students and teachers at its school. These moves were reversed under the Mamluk Sultanate, under whose rule numerous expansions and renovations took place. Later rulers of Egypt showed differing degrees of deference to the mosque and provided widely varying levels of financial assistance, both to the school and to the upkeep of the mosque. Today, al-Azhar remains a deeply influential institution in Egyptian society that is highly revered in the Sunni Muslim world and a symbol of Islamic Egypt."