these mosques look like giant floating castles hey why do religious architecture get obsessed with gold leaf???
Any ways these were awesome!!!

Real gold leaf would not corrode and hence keeps it's color .

take a look at this- does it look somewhat similar?

http://www.cornpalace.org/newpages/palace.html


LOL those are great pictures though!

quite simply beautiful pictures..why though is so much wonderful architecture and beauty in buildings like mosques and cathedrals where so much of the world's hatred comes from? and over which so many fight and argue when these places should be shrines of peace and love..they evoke that in viewing why not in reality?

Great pics,,,sue

to answer your question- dollface,
I think that the reason some of these places are the homes of hatred is that they represent power. If some person or group of people has power over someone's life, death or eternity, or is thought of as having that power, they can get what they want, and human nature is such that absolute power corrupts.

God is the only one who has that power in reality, and He is all good, and not prone to the misdeeds of men.

The Tripoli Shrine in Milwaukee is rightfully referred to as "The Mosque" and while perhaps not of world class consideration, it is an amazingly striking structure to find in the middle of the mid-west in what was at the time of its construction a predominately German and Polish city. Check out the linked photo and you'll see what I mean. Here's a bit of history about it. Even the much larger Medinah Temple in Chicago isn't the striking landmark The Tripoli Mosque is.

i looked at it it belong to the Masonic Order !