Classical Middle Eastern Architecture

>>66343190
Because Islam?

>>66343190
cant build prety stuff when your country is fucked up by usa cant it?

iran, saudi arabia, turkey and others all have revival buildings

>>66343190
>Why doent Middle Easterners look up to their classical civilizations
The secular ones do. The Ba'athists promoted the shit out of the Babylonians.

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>>66343190
>americans
Iraq is destroyed

Sooo
This is a pinnacle of modern ME """""""architecture"""""""""

>>66343708
A kitschy version of Big Ben?

>>66343708
Is there a secular one left?

Lebanon is secular but no Phonecian buildings ;(

>>66343770
You can literally fit Big Ben inside that clock

>>66344908
I think three Big Ben's would fit in.

>>66343708

Those buildings look as if a section of NY was cut and paste, and they stuck a clock on the big building

Some serious sim city shit

>>66343708
why do muslims pray to that thing
isnt a black cube a satanic symbol?

>>66345350
they pray to a silver vagina with a piece of stone on one of the walls

For christians Rome was just a "preparation" for the the Lord's reign and the world of the Classics is intrissically connected with christianity. I can't explain properly in english, if some anglo read Dante he should be able to explain this thing. I don't think sunni/shia feels the same for older civilization but it's just an hypothesis.

>>66345350
Also isn't them praying towards the rock rather disconected from the fact that they were not supposed to be symbol worshippers according to the whole Mohammed raiding Mecca story.

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Court of Egypt

Pretty based

>>66345572
isis wants to destroy it, actually