The interior of the main prayer hall with the elaborately carved late 16th-century minbar (pulpit for the Friday sermon), built in the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Murad III (1574-1595) and still in use today. The columns on either side of it are painted to resemble marble in a polychrome Ottoman style.
Photograph : Mohammed Helmi, 1947.
Collection : King Abdulaziz Public Library.
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