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Antique 1920s Turkish Prayer Rug Mosque Design Wool Red Field era_canning_label_collector as it was here —The Turkish Prayer Rug: One of the World's Most Meaningful Textile Traditions The prayer rug in Arabic sajjada, in Turkish namazlk is one of the defining forms of Islamic textile art, combining functional purpose with extraordinary artistic expression across a tradition that stretches back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic world. In Anatolia, the prayer rug developed its own distinctive vocabulary: the characteristic pointed or arched mihrab