{"id":48301,"date":"2026-02-11T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48301"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:45:51","slug":"the-central-mosque-of-astana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/the-central-mosque-of-astana\/","title":{"rendered":"The Central Mosque of Astana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astana_Grand_Mosque\">Central Mosque<\/a><\/strong> of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astana\">Astana<\/a><\/strong>, inaugurated in 2022 in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kazakhstan\">Kazakhstan<\/a><\/strong>, is the largest in Central Asia and one of the largest in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>It can accommodate around 30,000 worshippers inside and hundreds of thousands in its courtyard. Its huge 83-meter-high dome and 130-meter-high minarets dominate the capital.<br>Decorated with white marble, calligraphy, and a gigantic chandelier, it blends Islamic traditions with modern architecture. This place of worship is also a symbol of unity, culture, and the country&#8217;s religious influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credits: <strong>Salom\u00e9 Aldeguer-Roure <\/strong>(France)<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Mosque of Astana, inaugurated in 2022 in Kazakhstan, is the largest in Central Asia and one of the largest in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[884,4911,470,4002],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-astana","tag-central-mosque","tag-kazakhstan","tag-photo-of-the-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48305,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48301\/revisions\/48305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48301"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}