_نماذج مختارة من المساجد المعلقة

Mosque architecture occupies the first place and the supreme position among the types of Islamic buildings, and this is naturally due to the religious sentiment and the desire to draw closer to the Lord Almighty. Since its inception, the mosque has been a place for prayer, meeting, study and consultation in worldly and religious matters, and the provisions of this tolerant religion emerged from it, thus illuminating the world with its light. The mosques have been concerned with many and varied studies by Arab and foreign specialists and researchers alike. The hanging mosques are among the religious establishments that were not known in the Arab Islamic architecture in the early days of Islam, and their first appearance was in the linkages that played an important role in the religious and military life of North Africa in Tunisia and from Examples the Hanging Mosque on the top floor of Ribat of Monastir, which was built in the second Hijri-eighth century AD, then the Hanging Mosque on the top floor of Ribat of Sousse, which was built in the third Hijri-ninth century CE. The sixth Hijri, the twelfth century CE, and it is a model for the development of the hanging mosques, where shops were built under it, whose revenues were stopped from the ages. To maintain and restore the mosque and fulfill the requirements of its employees and servants. After that, the rest of the suspended mosques followed the same principle regarding the establishment of shops on its lower floor, taking into consideration the different characteristics of each of the subsequent Islamic eras in terms of planning and building their mosques on the upper floor.