Entrance-ing 🪄 for #doorsday

Another Islamic/North African/Al-Andalus inspired door from Rocchetta Mattei!
Something you may not know about this place is that Cesare Mattei had developed a type of "Electro-Homeopathy" and supposedly was able to cure the "incurable". Allegedly the recipies died with him... Or did they?


(I don't know, I don't have them at least) ✨

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Aerial view of Alhambra, Granada, Muslim Spain, ~1300 AD

"One does not simply walk in through Moor-Door" 🚪 for #doorsday

Actually you can walk through it - if you've booked in advance 😂.
This is the main entrance into La Rocchetta Mattei. The building is inspired by the Islamic North African/Al-Andalus architecture - also known as Moorish architecture (hence the bad pun 😂).
It's a very beautiful and unusual building! ✨

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A New York Times report says Jeffrey Epstein sought “authentic tiles” from Uzbekistan for a private island building he described as a “mosque" https://ow.ly/xK7E50YUC2g #Uzbekistan #JeffreyEpstein #IslamicArchitecture #UzbekistanTiles

Epstein "Mosque" on Private Is...

How about a #Doorsday + #ThrowbackThursday + #TravelThursday today?

On this day in 2014 we were in #Marrakech. We stayed at a riad in the #Medina and were learning to navigate its labyrinthine alleyways when I came upon the entrance gate to the #BenYoussefLibrary.






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A fine selection of stained glass for #FensterFreitag this week.

This is inside the prayer hall of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. Honestly this photo doesn't even do it justice. The Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia are both huge and quite close together in the city centre. Each mosque broadcasts the call to prayer on loudspeakers and standing in the middle of these two having it in stereo was very moving and something I'll never forget. We were also there during Ramadan in July 2016 and every night the streets would fill up with joyous people and music and foods from around 9pm when observers were breaking their fasts.




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Hagia Sophia Domes

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