Al Anbariya Masjid

This guide to Al Anbariya Masjid in Medina starts with the name itself, drawn from the granary that once stood on this stretch of the city, and works forward to 1908, when the Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid the Second opened the Hejaz Railway terminus beside it. It follows why the mosque built alongside the station never received a pulpit, and how its black basalt walls and twin lead-capped minarets were built to withstand Medina's heat. Look closely at the marble and floral patterning inside, laid down in Ottoman style.