Mohammad Al Amin Mosque or Blue Mosque in downtown Beirut, Lebanon

The Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque , also referred to as the Blue Mosque, is a Sunni Muslim mosque located in downtown Beirut, Lebanon.
In the 19th century, a Zawiya (prayer corner) was built on this site.
The Mohammad Al-Amin mosque is the biggest mosque in Lebanon. In the initial steps of building this mosque, Hariri endured many obstacles such as rights of property and funding the actual building. In preparation for the mosque, panels were placed which signified that a mosque was going to be built. Soon after the Lebanon Civil War, very little was left.
The design is evocative of the Ottomans’ monumental architecture: with a built area covering approximately 11,000 square meters, a 48-meter-high blue dome and 65-meter-high minarets (placed on the corners of the mosque), the mosque has become a dominant feature of the Beirut City Center skyline. The Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque contains multiple domes. All of the domes of the mosque are made from light blue tiles. The mosque also has multiple arches, which are couple stories high. The mosque has very similar characteristics to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque.

[@alexandrea6925]

من اجمل الجوامع في لبنان . ما شاءالله . الله يزيد و يبارك .

[@costantinemf4207]

And its next to a church
Very amazing

[@sweetblue67]

Hey very nice... thanks

[@Mahalakshmi-Khan]

Looks like something built atleast 150+ years ago. Cannot believe it was recently built.

[@aliewa4821]

MasyaAlloh

[@AsgharAzaad]

MashAllah

[@SyaefulM-ty1su]

Sholu ala nabi muhammad

[@sourweed9818]

This is entirely Turkish style mosque except color. Exactly the same as the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

[@ela7893]

It's Byzantium architecture, not Turkish - the blue mosque was modelled off the Christian Cathedral, Hagia Sophia, which is Byzantium architecture

[@sourweed9818]

@@ela7893 so what? Ottoman Turkish architecture is fusion of byzantine and persian architectures. i cant see any problem with that. You can see dozens of moorish style buildings in Spain built by Spaniards. Thats not make them less Spanish. therefore using byzantine styles are not make these buildings less Turkish. thats the universal truth unless you are white supremacist racist bigot.

[@ela7893]

@@sourweed9818 it's essentially a replica of Hagia Sophia, you know, the cathedral that was stolen by the ottomon colonisers.

[@sourweed9818]

@@ela7893 Conquered by Tuks from militarily very very weak Greeks like when Spaniards conquered Cordoba from Moors and converted Great Mosque of Córdoba in a Cathedral. By the way city of Byzantium or Constanople was herself already a colony of Hellenes. Ottomans were traditional medieval type conquerors like Byzantine, China, Holy Roman etc.. not colonizers. Real colonizers were original Hellenes, ancient ones. Not nowadays slavic, vlach, arvanit mongrels who call themselves Hellenes. Even Byzantines never called themselves as Hellenes.

[@ela7893]

@@sourweed9818 haha typical Islam, reverse engineering history, reality and the facts.
Regarding Spain, the muslim colonisers entered into Spanish territory and colonised their land, demolished their church and built their mosque on top. The Spanish simply took back their lands and the spot where the Islamic colonisers demolished their original church.
Yes, they were the Roman Empire, and didn't take on the Byzantium title until they were colonised, but just like Arabian peninsula was never called Saudi Arabia, we still use modern day references to explain what we mean.

[@thezmanchar]

This is an absolute eye sore. They made it bigger because there was a church next door to it. How much do people want to bet, it will be fixed in no time, with more crap added to it. It’s not attractive. It’s location is bad. They should have left the mosque looking the same. I’m a Muslim, I would never pray in a mosque where there is someone buried on its ground. It’s not a church, it’s a mosque. The size of it is very ugly to be put on such a small piece of land.

[@basic_avarage_person]

well it dosent matter is it?