{"id":10,"date":"2014-03-10T02:21:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/?p=10"},"modified":"2014-03-10T02:22:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:22:20","slug":"mosque-mosaic-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/2014\/03\/10\/mosque-mosaic-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosque Mosaic (Week 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/files\/2014\/03\/Mosque-Mosaic-Final2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-14\" title=\"Mosque Mosaic Final\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/files\/2014\/03\/Mosque-Mosaic-Final2-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/files\/2014\/03\/Mosque-Mosaic-Final2-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/files\/2014\/03\/Mosque-Mosaic-Final2-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After seeing so many different mosque designs during Week #6, I decided to toss my own design into the ring.\u00a0 Specifically, I chose to create a tiled mosaic that I envision covering an interior wall of a modern mosque.<\/p>\n<p>In the film \u201cIslamic Art: Mirror of an Invisible World,\u201d viewers were exposed to mosques that were colorful, detailed, and elaborate, and I sought to create the same thing.\u00a0 Each of the interior tiles of my design is an image of one of the many mosques found around the globe.\u00a0\u00a0 I use 160 different images, each colorful and representative of the many different styles of mosques that men have created over the centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The gold tiling in the center of the mosaic spells \u201cAllah\u201d in Arabic.\u00a0 Additionally, there are 99 gold tiles used to spell \u201cAllah\u201d and this was done to acknowledge the fact that there are 99 different names for Him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing so many different mosque designs during Week #6, I decided to toss my own design into the ring.\u00a0 Specifically, I chose to create a tiled mosaic that I envision covering an interior wall of a modern mosque. In the film \u201cIslamic Art: Mirror of an Invisible World,\u201d viewers were exposed to mosques that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ejordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}