Prayer in the Mosque

Artist	Jean-Léon Gérôme
Year	1871
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	88.9 cm × 74.9 cm (35.0 in × 29.5 in)
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Accession	87.15.130

Prayer in the Mosque is a mid-19th century painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts the interior of an Egyptian mosque in which worshipers are praying. The orientalist painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1][2]

References

"Prayer in the Mosque". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
Edward Strahan [Earl Shinn], ed. The Art Treasures of America. Philadelphia, [1880], vol. 1, pp. 126–27, 134, calls it "In the Mosque of Amrou" in the text and "Sheik at Devotions, Ancient Mosque in Cairo" in the list of works in Miss Wolfe's collection.

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[1] "Prayer in the Mosque". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-07-14.

[2] Edward Strahan [Earl Shinn], ed. The Art Treasures of America. Philadelphia, [1880], vol. 1, pp. 126–27, 134, calls it "In the Mosque of Amrou" in the text and "Sheik at Devotions, Ancient Mosque in Cairo" in the list of works in Miss Wolfe's collection.