Tombul Mosque
Tombul Mosque
The Sherif Halil Pasha Mosque, (Bulgarian: Томбул джамия Turkish: Tombul Camii), more commonly known as the Tombul (or Tumbul) Mosque, located in Shumen, is the largest mosque in Bulgaria and among the largest on the Balkans. Built between 1740 and 1744, it was initially located in the northeastern Bulgarian (then Ottoman) town's centre, but is now in Shumen's southwest parts as the town centre shifted. The mosque's name comes from the shape of its dome.
The mosque's complex consists of a main edifice (a prayer hall), a yard and a
twelve-room extension (a boarding house of the madrasa). The main edifice is in
its fundamental part a square, then becomes an octagon passing to a circle in
the middle part, and is topped by a spheric dome that is 25 m above ground. The
interior has mural paintings of vegetable life and geometric figures and
features a lot of inscriptions in Arabic, phrases from the Qur'an. The yard is
known for the arches in front of the twelve rooms that surround it and the
minaret is 40 m high.
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minaret
times of prayer today
entrance from the street
in the direction of Mecca
for Friday Prayer talks
Qur'ans and beads
prayer carpets
women's prayer location
women's stairway
for washing before prayer
minaret
courtyard
male shoes outside the madrasa door
female shoes
outside wall
