Le Hukuru Miskiiy (Mosquée du vendredi) est la plus importante mosquée des Maldives. Construit en origines vers 1153 au moment de la conversion à l'islam sur les ordres du Sultan Muhammad al-Adil, il a été restauré en 1338, puis renouvelé et agrandi en 1656-7 par le Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar I (1648-87). Le bâtiment est de corail hiri-ga finement sculpté, et porte quelques moulures d'inspiration artistique typiquement bouddhiste sur le sous-sol. Le portique a été érigé par Ibrahim Iskandar I à son retour du pèlerinage du hadj à la Mecque en 1668. Le munnaru (minaret), en forme de phare, était distinctif

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• Date de la prise de vue: 25 avril 2010
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The Hukuru Miskiiy (Friday Mosque) is the most important mosque in the Maldives. Originially constructed c.1153 at the time of the conversion to Islam on the orders of Sultan Muhammad al-Adil, it was restored in 1338, and subsequently renewed and enlarged in 1656-7 by Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar I (1648-87). The building is of finely-carved hiri-ga coral, and bears some mouldings of distinctly Buddhist artistic inspiration on the basement. The portico was erected by Ibrahim Iskandar I on his return from the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in 1668. The distinctive, lighthouse-shaped munnaru (minaret) was erected by the same sultan in 1674-5. Asia's smallest and least-known nation, the Republic of Maldives, lies scattered from north to south across a 750-kilometre sweep of the Indian Ocean 500 kilometres south-west of Sri Lanka. More than 1000 islands, together with innumerable banks and reefs, are grouped in a chain of nineteen atolls which extends from a point due west of Colombo to just south of the equator. The atolls, formed of great rings of coral based on the submarine Laccadive-Chagos ridge, vary greatly in size. Some are only a few kilometres square, but in the far south the great atoll of Suvadiva is sixty-five kilometres across, and has a central lagoon of more than 2000 square kilometres. The northern and central atolls are separated from each other by comparatively narrow channels of deep water, but in the south Suvadiva is cut off by the eighty-kilometre-wide One-and-a-half-Degree Channel. Addu Atoll is still more isolated, being separated from the atoll of Suvadiva by the seventy-kilometre-wide Equatorial Channel.

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