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All day
Grand Tour of Washington (AM)
Islamic Tours of Washington (PM)
By

ZOHERY
TOURS

202-554-4200

http://www.zohery.com/islamic-tours-ofwashington/
$59.00 Eight Hours Combination of:
Grand Tour of Washington (AM) $25.00
Departure: 9.00 AM from Hyatt Regency Hotel
400 New Jersey Ave NW Washington DC 20001
Lunch: Halal Food $9.00
Islamic Tours of Washington (PM) $25.00
Every Sunday
departure: 2.00 PM from Kabab Palace Restaurant located
at 23333 South Eads Street Arlington VA 22202 (Crystal
City)
Zohery Tours is offering for the first time a Washington DC Tour combo, that
comprises the famous Grand Tour of Washington, its popular day tour of the
nations capital and featuring an exclusive Halal food lunch to satisfy your
distinctive palates while youre relaxing from the morning tour.
The tour will resume with the Islamic Tour of Washington DC, starting
at 2pm from the Kabob Palace in Crystal City, Arlington, VA. During the tour youll
get the chance to visit 2 out of the leading mosques in Washington DC Metro
Area. This Islamic Tours of Washington DC is conducted every Sunday, you will
visit:

1. The Islamic center of Washington. Located at 2551 Massachusetts Ave NW,

Washington DC 20008
2. Turkish mosque Located at 9704 Good Luck Road, Lanham, Maryland 20706
The tour will be narrated by an Islamic Scholar and during stopover at the
masjids mentioned above, you will get the chance to visit the premises and meet
with some officials from the place. this will include a lecture recounting the
genesis and history of the creation of the particular masjid and its significance to
the Muslim community in Washington DC area.

If you are a Muslim, come and meet other Muslims in the Washington Metro area.
If you are non Muslim, come and learn about Islam and the role of the Mosques in
Islam from the Muslims themselves not from the media. This tour is conducted by
an Islamic scholar. This portion of the tour is about the religion of Islam and will
include visit to two major Mosques in Washington Metro Area.
At the end of the tour, you will be dropped off at Metro Center Station where most
of the lines are there..

Grand Tour of Washington

Adult or Child $25.00

Tour overview
The Grand Tour of Washington is the premier comprehensive DC Tour that
takes you to all the monuments, museums and memorials in Washington DC.
It has been designed as a comprehensive day tour package for those of you
who want to get the full picture. You get treated to 4 hours of live narrated
tour with an experienced and knowledgeable tour guide who will take you to
a journey through history with stops to the landmarks that tell the story of
this Capital city, this great nation.
We were among the early companies to offer sightseeing tours in DC and still
we are the best at it. Zohery Tours, with over 25 years experience helping
tourists rediscover the city, will make sure that its not an ordinary bus trip to
the places to visit in DC. Rather, it will be an educational tour, in which you
witness history unfold under your very eyes. Instead of just telling you that

this is the Capitol Building, you will learn of its creation, the events that led
up to its creation as well as the key players behind the story.
The Washington Monument standing 555 ft tall in the National Mall
overlooking the panorama will reveal the secret to its story associated with
the long history of this nation. Also, your dream will be fulfilled to visit the
most prestigious address in the nation: the White House on 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue. Beyond seeing it in all its majesty behind forbidding
gates, it will be an open book for you to browse through the lives of its
occupants, past and present, and all the twists and plots that solidified its
imprint on American history.
There are many cultural landmarks that are part of this bus tour of
Washington DC. Some of the most important places you will visit include the
Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Martin Luther King Memorial, to
name a few
Dont forget to bring your camera along because well take you close to
many stops where you can snap pictures. The Grand Tour of Washington is
the ultimate tour great memories are made of. Come aboard and be a part of
history.

Tour information
Departure Time: 9AM from Hyatt Regency Hotel- 400 New Jersey Ave, NW,
Washington, DC 20001(3 blocks from Union Station Metro) Approx. 3 4
hours. Ask us about hotel pickup and return availability and time from your
Hotel.
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Union station
U.S. Capitol
Senate Office Building
Holocaust Museum
Washington Monument
Tidal Basin
Cherry Blossoms Trees
Patrick Henry Memorial
Watergate
Arlington National Cemetery
Georgetown
Old Executive Office Building

Blair House
White House
Treasury Department
Ellipse
National Christmas Tree
Zero Mile Stone
General Sherman Memorial
Freedom Plaza
General Pershing Memorial
Federal Triangle
General Pulaski Memorial
Fords Theater
Department of Commerce
National Archives
Old Post Office, The Pavilion
Navy Memorial
Evening Star Building
FBI
Trade Commission
U.S. Federal Court
Senators Offices
Reserve Officers Association
Supreme Court
Methodist Building
Library of Congress
Representatives Offices
U.S. Botanic Garden
Garfield Memorial
U.S. Grant Memorial
U.S. Capitol Reflecting Pool
Federal Mall
Smithsonian Museums
Air and Space Museum
Natural History & American History Museums
State Department
Albert Einstein Memorial
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
Department of Interior
Federal Reserve
Organization of American States
Daughters of American Revolution Organization
Headquarter of American Red Cross
Step off and visit

White House (outside South Front for pictures)

Jefferson Memorial
Franklin Roosevelt Memorial
Martin Luther King Memorial

Lincoln Memorial (The same stop includes visiting

Korean War Memorial, Vietnam Memorial and the Nurses
Memorial)

Iwo Jima Memorial

Islamic Tours of Washington (PM)

Adult or Child $25.00
Lunch: Halal Food $9.00
Departure: 2.00 PM from Kabab Palace Restaurant Crystal City
Arlington VA
If you are a Muslim, come and meet other Muslims in the
Washington Metro area. If you are non Muslim, come and learn
about Islam and the role of the Mosques in Islam from the
Muslims themselves not from the media. This tour is conducted by
an Islamic scholar. This portion of the tour is about the religion of
Islam and will include visit to two major Mosques in Washington
Metro Area.
1. Islamic Center of Washington DC
http://theislamiccenter.com/
History

In November 1944, the idea for building a Mosque in Washington

DC was born through a discussion between Mr. M. Abu Al Hawa
and the former Ambassador of Egypt, Mr. Mahmood Hassan
Pasha.
Soon thereafter, a handful of diplomats and American Muslims
formed the Washington Mosque Foundation. The Foundations
membership quickly grew to include representatives from every
Islamic nation in the world and American citizens. They all
supported the Foundations appeal for funds. They managed to
raise enough money that enabled them to purchase the land that
the Center sits on now on Washingtons Embassy Row. They
purchased the land on April 30, 1946, and laid the cornerstone on
January 11, 1949.
Prof. Mario Rossi, a noted Italian architect who built several
mosques in Egypt designed the building. Egypt donated a
magnificent bronze chandelier and sent the specialists who wrote
the Quranic verses adorning the mosques walls and ceiling. The
tiles came from Turkey along with the experts to install them. The
Persian rugs came from Iran, which are still in the mosque of the
Center.
Finally, with its completion, the Islamic Centers dedication
ceremony took place on June 28, 1957. Former United States
President Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke for the American
representatives. In his address, he praised the Islamic worlds
traditions of learning and rich culture which have for centuries
contributed to the building of civilization. He affirmed Americas
founding principle of religious freedom and stated that: America
would fight with her whole strength for your right to have here
your own church and worship according to your own conscience.
This concept is indeed a part of America, and without that
concept we would be something else than what we are.
Eisenhower concluded: As I stand beneath these graceful arches,
surrounded on every side by friends from far and near, I am
convinced that our common goals are both right and promising.
Faithful to the demands of justice and of brotherhood, each
working according to the lights of his own conscience, our world
must advance along the paths of peace. ( these facts are copied
from the center web site)

2. Turkish Mosque
http://diyanetamerica.org/
Turkish American Community Center - Lanham, MD ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwKftqVK4TA
http://diyanetamerica.org/our-campuses/mosque/#
Vision
The Diyanet Centre of Americas vision is to create a highly
esteemed organization that leads in advocating for the religious,
moral and spiritual values of the Muslim society in America, and
to make a contribution to peace and tranquility for all mankind,
and to be a prestigious mediator on Islamic issues.
Mission
The Diyanet Centre of Americas mission is to enlighten society
about religion with factual and updated knowledge based on
essential Islamic sources and to provide guidance to society about
faith, worship and moral principles and to improve relations on
the basis of justice, peace, tolerance and mutual understanding.
Our core principles
Diyanet Center of America
1.
committed to providing religious services without regard
to politics
2.
relies on true knowledge based on the Quran and the
authentic traditions of the Prophet and takes into consideration
various religious interpretations, tendencies and traditions and
evaluates them in the light of mainstream understanding and
rational approach.
3.
aims to preserve all of the differences in belief and
culture in an atmosphere of freedom and mutual respect.
4.
committed to protecting the Muslims religious and
cultural roots.
5.
supports freedom of religion and freedom of expression.
6.
advocates dialogue between faith communities both in
America and the world.

7.
seeks the preservation of the historical and cultural
heritage of other religions based on Islams exalted historical
tolerance.
8.
condemns all types of violence and terror and considers
them to be crimes against humanity regardless of who the
perpetuator and victim may be.
9.
supports equal and complementary rights and
responsibilities for men and women.
THE MOSQUE
The Mosque in Islamic Civilization
The mosque has an important place in Islamic civilization and in
the development of its architecture. Mosque architecture began in
Islam with the Masjid al-Nabi in Medina. While retaining its basis
and spirit as established by the Prophet, it has evolved over
history. The Masjid al-Nabi, which was founded by the Prophet and
gave direction to mosque architecture in Islam, was at the same
time the first madrasa (school of Islamic law) for Muslims. From
the beginning, there were places in the mosque or masjid, that is,
places of the Ashab al-Suffa (People of the Portico), where all
Muslims were taught that Islam could not coexist with ignorance
and that the enlightenment of society derived from knowledge
and wisdom. In Islamic civilization, the mosque
or masjid was bayt Allah, meaning the house of God. This point
of view expressed the importance of mosques and masjids and
the sanctity that was attributed to these places. This concept
ensured that the most beautiful and largest buildings in Muslim
lands throughout history would be mosques. They were built in
the center of the city and the settlement plan of the city was
arranged according to the placement of the mosque. The most
recent innovations discovered in art and architecture were
reflected in mosques; and each mosque became an example of
this tradition which flourished over the generations. Mosques,
which developed architecturally and aesthetically and were made
beautiful in each era, occupied a special place in the intellectual
and ethical life of society as centers where knowledge, especially
religious and spiritual knowledge, was taught and learned. The

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principles and concepts which breathed life into Islamic

civilization were taught and learned here. Spirituality and the
spirituality of places of worship have created and developed
civilization. The deeply rooted and noble civilization that arose
from the mosques always called upon humanity to be brothers in
creation in a common religion; and whereever it spread
tranquility, peace, and brotherhood prevailed.
The Mosque as the Heart of the Center
Architectural Features
Because the American Religious Center is a mosque-centered
project, the building at the very heart of the Center is the
mosque. The mosque was built in the style of sixteenth-century
Ottoman architecture. The most important feature of sixteenthcentury Ottoman architecture is its combination of aesthetics and
functionality. Ottoman architecture had an important style which
brought together art, aesthetics, and functionality in the
construction of places for daily life. The most significant feature of
mosque architecture in that period was to ensure unity in space
by using the central dome system. Much larger and centralized
spaces were created by using a system of construction that
employed a central dome supported by adjoining half-domes and
small domes.
In the Mosque of the American Religious Center, in the space
enlarged by the use of a half-dome on the qibla-side (the side
facing Mecca) of the central dome and five small domes on each
of the other three sides, a unity is created and a large and open
place is provided. The weight of the dome is born and transferred
equally by placing it on four elephant feet (pillars) in
conformity with traditional Ottoman architecture. The large and
small domes are supported by arches, again in conformity with
traditional architecture. Four marble colums carry the weight of
the four elephant feet in addition to that of the small domes at
the sides. Each of these columns was brought from the Turkish
provinces of Istanbul, Eskiehir, Afyonkarahisar, and Tokat, which
are famous for marble. Thanks to this, it is possible for 760 people
to worship at the same time in the covered area. The mosque also
has a spacious courtyard. The sides of the courtyard are each
covered with five small domes creating a space that is half

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covered. The mosque has two minarets each of which has two
galleries. It has the distinction of being the only mosque in
American with two minarets. In the covered area and courtyard
together it is posible for 3,000 people to worship at the same
time.
In the interior decoration and ornamentation, traditional motifs
are used, but original features are also exhibited. In order to add
richness to the decorated spaces, above all where there is Arabic
calligraphy, inside the mosque, the technique of gold leaf has
been used. The mihrab (prayer niche) and the walls on each side
of it are covered with tile. Taking into consideration the fact that
decoration has certain functions in addition to philosophical
thought, the Arabic inscriptions have been made so that one can
read them in the depth of the domes and they reinforce the
architecture. While the inscriptions call forth the relationship of
multiplicity and unity, mukarnases(stalectite decoration) are
used for the transition to different geometric shapes, such as from
quadrilateral to multilateral. Decoration, in which emphasis is
given to the duality of the traditional and modern and to the art of
calligraphywhich is considered to be non-figurative and
abstract imageryand physical and moral architecture, which
reaches resolution in pure Turkish Islamic architecture in the
concept of simplified architecture, are united.
The mosque, which is the most important structure in the project,
covers an area of 1,879 square meters. Below the mosque is the
Museum of Islamic Monuments in an area of 300 square meters.
In addition there is a covered auto park with a capacity for 500
vehicles for visitors. The mosque is built of steel reinforced
concrete on a foundation of piled compartments and is
strengthened against earthquakes. High quality building
materials, like stone and marble, have been set in place with
steel-fitting machinery and no mortar was used. The interior
acoustics of the mosque have been assured by the empty spaces
in the domes, a method which has been used for thousands of
years. ( these facts are copied from the center web site)

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