Mosque construction

Today we wanted to go on a day trip to a village in the mountains famous for their apricot blossom. Word goes that it is like Japan's cherry blossom.

The village is at almost a 2 hour drive from where we live, so we set off early.
However, 3km before arriving the road was blocked by police. Everybody (and we were not the only ones) had to turn around because they had closed the village for visitors due to Corona.

To do something we decided to drive a little in the wadi close by. Norbert let Yelena (14 yo) drive. She had a blast.
We saw many goats their and so I had a good time too because they were happy to pose!

Next we stopped at a fort close by. It was no surprise that it was closed (most things are closed on Friday mornings), but it was nice to walk around.

Google told me there was a hot spring near by, so we checked that out too. This was an amazing place, but after about 5 minutes the police came and everybody had to go. So we drove home.

On the way to the village I drove. And I saw 2 mosques under construction along the main road. On the way back Norbert drove and I took a few pictures from the back seat. I zoomed in on a minaret, but liked this picture a lot better. The color of this mosque is still grey (concrete), so it works really well in B&W. And although it is not abstract, I really like all the lines and details.

[KWind]

Look at all that scaffolding! Impressive!

[Susan Wakely]

This has shapes, structure and textures and with that scaffolding there is abstract.

[bkb in the city]

Great capture. Sorry that things were closed. Are there a lot of restrictions over there at the moment.
Here they are in the midst of slowly lifting restrictions that went into place last November

[Lin]

Nicely captured - sounds like you made the most of your day!

[Krista Marson]

pretty darn tall

[Esther Rosenberg]

What an impressive construction around the Mosque. For sure a lot of lines and shapes.

[Babs]

Impressive structure so much scaffolding. Sounds as though you had a lovely day.

[Lou Ann]

Wonderful lines and shapes. Your day sounds great even with all the stops and starts, so to speak.

[Wendy]

This works so well for the FoR - the lines and patterns are perfect.

[Casablanca]

Striking building site indeed! How frustrating to be turned back everywhere interesting you wanted to go!

[Dione Giorgio]

Looks like it is going to be a wonderful piece of architecture when completed. Enjoyed readying your story and the way you seem to take all those setbacks.

[Michelle]

I bet it will be beautiful when it's finished, not sure I would want to climb all those stairs up the scaffolding!

[summerfield]

looks like a really nice building. more gold probably on the minaret? i do like how the tower/minaret looks like with all the scaffolding around it. aces!