Guess where this is?

[Brian Ellis]

Guess from your clue (don't have time to research just now): Natural History Museum, London???

[Fat Tone]

Yup. See http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/histor...els/index.html

[Brian Ellis]

Try this easy one

[Fat Tone]

Your back garden? (or close by)

[Brian Ellis]

What do you mean by close by? Actually, distance is about 23 km ±1 km from here, by road.

You're taking advantage that I'm pushed for time (6th hospitalisation, 5th op. since Jan last year on Monday )

[Fat Tone]

Well you are taking advantage of the really easy clue I gave

Sorry to hear you are still suffering. Time for an update in your 'special' thread?

[Brian Ellis]

Clue: looks like a mosque, but isn't. It is a very holy place of Muslim worship, reputedly the 3rd or 4th holiest place in Islam, much more venerated than an ordinary mosque. Is associated with http://bnellis.com/msc/ and that should give you a hint or two. I won't be able to give you a yea or nay after tomorrow afternoon, until I'm sprung from hospital (unknown duration, anything from 3 days to 3 weeks, God forbid!).

[degrub]

Good luck Brian !

From Wiki -
Hala Sultan Tekke or the Mosque of Umm Haram is a very prominent Muslim shrine near Larnaca, on the island of Cyprus. Umm Haram (Hala Sultan in the Turkish language) was the Islamic prophet Muhammad's wet nurse and the wife of Ubada bin al-Samit[citation needed]. Most accounts[weasel words] establish a connection between the site and the death of Umm Haram during the first Arab raids on Cyprus under the Caliph Muawiyah between 647 and 649, which were later pursued throughout the Umayyad and the Abbasid periods. According to these accounts, Umm Haram, being of very old age, had fallen from her mule and had died during a siege of Larnaca. She was buried near the salt lake and her grave became a sacred shrine. The shrine, and later the mosque and the whole complex was named after her

i think FT had it.

[Fat Tone]

No, I just took a stab, degrub did the work, he got it. After you

[Brian Ellis]

According to local legend, she died on the spot when she fell off her mule and "broke her pellucid neck" and was buried where she died. Besides having brought up Mohammed from babyhood, it is believed she was his aunt. According to writings she was very spiritual and laid the foundations of Islam in his head, hence the reverence paid to her resting place. Muslim boats heading to Larnaca dip their flags in homage when passing the Tekké (a Tekké is the Muslim equivalent of a monastery and the domed mosque is only a part of the complex). Despite it being in the Greek part of the island, there is a resident imam and thousands of pilgrims pray at her tomb each year, many of them Turkish-speaking Cypriots. Miracles are also ascribed to the site. The tomb itself is between two dolmens surmounted by a third monolith (possibly iron age), the third one being reputed to levitate, but the whole thing is covered by a green curtain. Several other notables are buried there, including a Jordanian queen.

[degrub]

ok, the picture is not that good - key feature is the crab over the gate.

[Brian Ellis]

Maryland?

[degrub]

logical. however, cold very cold.

[jms]

Japan?

[degrub]

no, but closer