special Shanghai Expo new features special borders current affairs portrait series portraits concept essay adventure animals animals - dogs architecture arts & crafts arts & entertainment arts & entertainment - music cars & motorbikes children daily life economy festivals special Easter festivals - christmas festivals - carnival food & wine garden history interior leisure modern life & trends nature & environment people of the world religion religion - pilgrimages science & technology sports - summer sports - winter sports - special soccer travel - city portraits travel luxury travel by train/boat/ship travel winter travel Africa travel America north travel America south/central travel Asia travel Australia travel Europe travel Pacific wellness & beauty women weddings special at the border by sputnik This Day of Hope

:

Tibet in Exile The Mosque Dreaming of Tibet The Sun Blessing Santa Clara Convent Buddhist Center in Laos El Ezher University Being Catholic Faith Buddha Statues Buddhist Monks II Mount Athos Last Christians of the East Moving Spirit Kazan mosque Buddhist Monks Sufism From Islam to Christianity Inside the Vatican Holy Land Gurubusters Cobra Sect Mystic Styria Holy Land Theme Park Mariazell Outback Monks Catholic Shanghai Coptic Monastery Ayodhya Priest Seminary Ramadan Nights Baptism in Italy Sacrificial Feast Muslims in Poland Ajanta & Ellora Caves Ardenica Monastery

put all pictures into basket.

slideview   |   tableview   |   listview

The mosque of Kazan after the renovation by Fausto Giaccone

Four minarets 57 meters high and a 39-meter dome the 99 names for Allah and the 28 prophets used to decorate the interiors accommodating 1 500 worshippers and costing over 400 million rubles. This in sum the grand brand-new Kul-Sharif mosque in the Kremlin of Kazan the capital of the Tatarstan republic 800 kilometers east of Moscow.