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Fez’s Al Qarawiyyin Library, founded in 859 by a woman named Fatima al-Fihri.
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Lahore - Quaid-e-Azam Library قائداعظم لائبریری‬ Montgomery Hall (Quaid-e-Azam Library) by Usman Ghani.jpg Established 1886 Location Lahore Branches 1 Collection Size 125,000…

National Library

Dushanbe National library

Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal - Paris

Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Columbus, Ohio - Copyright Ohio State University Holdings Current holdings include more than: 300,000 original cartoons 45,000 books 67,000 serials…

Dushanbe - National library - Credit Silkadv.com A. Firdausi National Library with more than three million books; ancient oriental manuscripts collection; History of Tabari (XIII century),…

Palestine National Library - credit…

Damascus Library in the town of Yelda - Copyright The Syrian Observer

Science Cafe-Library by Anna Wigandt Chișinău credit:…

Law Library - Rämistrasse 74 8001 Zürich - As part of an effort to centralize the University's Law School's facilities, which were dispersed throughout eight different buildings, the Canton of…

Vatican Apostolic library - Rome - Copyright www.turan.az &…

Saakashvili Presidential Library is a political science and educational center that aims to promote liberal democratic values and the ideas of freedom, national unity and independence, free market…

Sofia - University Library - University St. Kliment Ohridski - 1888 15, Tsar Osvoboditel, Blvd., 1504 Sofia tel.: +359 2/ 8467-584; 9308-554; 9308-209

Trieste - Castle of Miramare - 1860 - The Library Credit Pinterest - Designed and built by the Chief Engineer of Franz Joseph Emperor of Austria, Carl Junker. Inhabited by Archduke Maximilian…

Library Krasinski Palace - Warsaw - by Dutch-Polish architect Tylman van Gameren started in 1682 by Giuseppe Belotti the leading architect in the capital during the reign of Sobieski.

Liria Palace Library - Madrid - The famed residence of the Dukes of Alba much damaged during the Spanish Civil War - There is a first-edition copy of Don Quixote) and the Alba Bible, Papal bulls from…

Chancellor's Library of Kynzvart Castle - more than 12,000 titles in 24,000 volumes. 160 manuscripts; there is a unique fragment of the Pentateuch dating back to the turn of the 9th century. 230…

Kačina Castle Library - built from 1806 to 1824 by the supreme burgrave of the Kingdom of Bohemia and president of the governorate, Jan Rudolf Chotek (1748–1824). by Saxon royal architect…

Chateau de Peralada Library - Catalogna - From the vineyards of Malaveïna, one of Castillo Perelada’s five estates in Empordà, to an aging cellar with 5,500 barrels, and the historic Gran…

Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek_- Weimar - Die Bibliothek wurde 1691 durch Herzog Wilhelm Ernst gegründet und gehört seit dem 18. Jahrhundert zu den bekanntesten Bibliotheken Deutschlands.…

Marienburg Castle - The Library - Gothic revival style _ Pattensen Hannover - Lower Saxony - birthday present of King George V of Hanover (1819-1878) to his wife Queen Marie (1818-1907) - The…

Pennsylvania State Library Credit State Library PA - Architects William Gehron and Sidney F. Ross - In the 1931 Art Deco Style

TU Delft Library

Lafayette College Library Easton, PA - Credit Lafayette College

TU Delft Library - South Holland

Computer designed Street Library - Varna on the Black Sea - Credit Inhabitat.com

Beach Library - Albena on the Black Sea

Museo Napoleonico - Library Habana

Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal - Paris. Its collections started with that of Marc-René, 3rd marquis d'Argenson (1722–1787), installed in 1757 in the residence of the Grand Master of the Artillery.

Chungcheongbuk-do - Panorama House Library by Architect Moon Hoon. Moonbalsso Credit: thisiscolossal.com

Institut du Monde Arabe - Paris - Library - Winner of architectural prices: Équerre d'Argent 1988, 1989 Aga Khan Award. Note how Moucharaby composing the skin of the building filter light, directly…

Montreal - Bibliothèque du Boisé, conçue par le consortium Eric Pelletier, Cardinal Hardy - Grand Prix d'excellence de l'Ordre des architectes du Québec (OAQ) 2015. Credit: Doublespace…

Home of The Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction - The Library

Florence - Biblioteca Riccardiana - Collection built during the Sixteenth century by Riccardo Romolo Riccardi. Purchased by Florence City Council in 1813 = The Sala della Biblioteca is decorated by…

Moscow State Library - credit telfleur.files.wordpress.com

Gondo School Library - Kere Architecture Berlin

Charleston Library Society

Ile, Ife - Obafemi Awolowo University

National Library - Windhoek (soon to be the third largest city in the world after Tianjin and Istanbul), 15 000 books, 78 newspaper titles, journals, brochures and pamphlets published in Namibia,…

Convento de San Francisco - Lima’s San Francisco Monastery Library built in 1672, with renovations and improvements continuing up until 1729. 25,000 rare books among them the first Spanish…

Biblioteca Palafoxiana - Puebla - 1646 - Founded by Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, bishop of Puebla. Quoted as having said: He who succeeds without books is in an inconsolable darkness, on a mountain…

Virgilio Barco Library - Architect Rogelio Salmona,2001 - part of the BIBLORED network (El Tintal, El Tunal, Julio Mario Santo Domingo and Virgilio Barco Vargas) - Bogota.

Sassoon Library (1863), Sir David Sassoon, a leading banker of Mumbai, aka Bombay, State of Maharashtra, contributed Rs.60,000/ to build a Mechanic's Institute. It is a Grade heritage structure…

Rampur Raza Library (Hindi: रामपुर रज़ा किताब ख़ाना) Uttar Pradesh - 1774-1794 Founded by Syed Faizullah Khan (c.1730 - July 17, 1794) first Nawab of Rampur…

Tianyi Pavilion -Tian Yi Ge (Chinese: 天一阁.) Founded in 1561 by Vice Minister of War Fan Qin 范钦; Ming Dinasty. The oldest private library in China, one of the world's three oldest private…

Osaka Prefectural Nakanoshima Library (大阪府立中之島図書館 -Credit - No Derivative Works by Yuichi Azuma

Beitou Public Library - Beitou Hot Springs Park, Taipei - Architect Chang Ching-Hwa of Bio-Architecture Formosana - Taiwan’s first “green” library, first to receive a Diamond grade EEWH Green…

Grand People's Study house - Pyongyang - Built in April 1982 over a period of 21 months to celebrate leader Kim Il-sung's 70th birthday - 30,000,000.00 volumes and Juche Center

Pyongyang's Taedong River - Ssuk Islet - Library of the Sci-Tech Center - - Credit Reuters

Paris - Bibliothèque de l'Hôtel de Ville 1872 replaces the Hôtel de Ville burned by the Communards in mai 1871. Reading room by Architect Édouard Deperthes. Metal and Oak decor over 600 m².…

Amsterdam - In het hart van het Joods Cultureel Kwartier bevindt zich "Ets Haim Livraria Montezinos", de oudste nog functionerende joodse bibliotheek ter wereld. Opgericht in 1616 en sinds 1675…

French Institute Library - Thessaloniki

Bibliothèque of Paul Marmottan - Foundation Marmottan -30 000 books about Napoléon 1er et French First Empire Boulogne-Billancourt. Credit:…

Bibliothek Warburg-Haus - Heilwigstr. 116 20249 Hamburg -1925-26 by Gerhard Langmaack with the contribution of Fritz Schumacher. The oval reading hall - harbours the department of art history of the…

Highclere Lord and Lady Carnavon's Castle Library - Architect Charles Barry 1842 Near Newbury

Parliament Library - Mallorca

Princess Grace's Irish Library - former family home of Countess Brame-Gastaldi. In 1961, during a State visit to Ireland, the Prince and Princess of Monaco visited the cottage in Drimurla, County…

Chateau de Compiegne - Napoleon I's Library - Credit:emilyevanseerdmans.blogspot.de

Dyal Singh Trust Library was established by Sardar Dyal Majithia in Lahore in 1908. Credit locallyLahore.com

credit: locallylahore.com Quaid-e-Azam Library -125,000 books in English, Urdu, Arabic, and Persian - Lahore

Bibliothèque Orientale Credit: Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth Compagnie de Jésus - Beirut

Misrata University Library - Credit…

credit: yalibnan.com - Al Sa’eh Library founded in 1970 and located in Tripoli, Lebanon by Reverent Ibrahim Sarouj, Priest of the Orthodox parish. It held about 80,000 books and manuscripts. The…

Musafir Memorial Central State Library, Mall Rd, Baradari, Patiala, Punjab 147001, India - 1,35,000 books of which over 15,000 books have archival books, besides 3,000 rare manuscripts and 100…

Centre Compound (former Gordon College buildings) Credit - University of Khartoum – Khartoum P.O. Box 321 – Zip code 11115

Bishop Okullu Memorial Library at the St Paul university. Photo Credit: SPU

National Library, Ibadan is located at Iyaganaku, Oyo State.

University of Notre-Dame - Notre Dame Law School’s Kresge Law Library

Somalia is set to reopen the national library soon according to the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia during the Book Fair on Friday according to Dalsan Radio. Credit…

Königskloster Library, an Augustinian church located in Brno where Pavel Křížkovský and Leoš Janáček made music.

Maria Feodorovna's Library Pavlovsk Palace - 1777-1780 - St Petersburg

Gulbenkian Library - Jerusalem Old City - Credit Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem - officially opened in 1932, on the Feast day of the Holy Translators, which was also the feast on which Patriarch…

Minsk Library

Boston Public Library

State Library of South Australia Mortlock Wing was designed by Colonial Architect E.J. Woods, amending R.G Thomas' original design, and built by Brown and Thompson at a cost of 36,395 pounds.

Hermitage Library

Moscow - Cafe Puschkin -Кафе Пушкинъ

Biblioteca Ateneu Barcelonés. Palau Savassona. Barcelona - Catalonia

University -Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας Thessaloniki - Credit DataScouting

Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée - Bibliotheque d'Etudes Rue des Sables 20 1000 Bruxelles

Holy Monastery of Sinai - Greek Orthodox monastery of the God-trodden St Catherine's Mount Sinai is located at the very place where God appeared to Moses in the Burning Bush, beneath the Mount of the…

Prunksaal Hofbibliothek Wien Bücherregal - Credit Politikaner

Benedictine Library -Abt-Berthold-Dietmayr-Straße 1, 3390 Melk

Reguly Antal Memorial Library - Zirc

Benedictine Pannonhalma Archabbey - Abbatia Territorialis Sancti Martini in Monte Pannoniae - Founded in 996 - second largest territorial abbey after Monte Cassino - 360,000 volumes -Order of Saint…

Campus Limpertsberg University of Luxembourg library

Miterrand Library - Paris Credit:…

Mbale Secondary, North Road Primary Libraries: Mbale Laurel Library, North Road Laurel Library Students Served: 7,100 Credit librariesoflove.org

Marx Memorial Library & Worker School - 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU

UCAD - Dakar - Universite Cheikh Anta Diop - Universitas Dakarensis - Library- Credit -…

L'viv: House of Scientists. Library.

British Library - London

Latin America Memorial Library - Architect Oscar Niemeyer - São Paulo

1963 Strick House sits on Santa Monica's architecture-packed La Mesa Drive - Architect Oscar Niemeyer Michael and Gabrielle Boyd added to it a Library

El Ateneo Grand Splendid - Buenos Aires

Avda. de las Leyes s/n. Palacio Legislativo, piso 2. - Montevideo La biblioteca del Poder Legislativo fue creada por la Ley 8.417 del 31 de marzo de 1929 250.000 volúmenes de obras monográficas…

Biblioteca Nacional Eugenio Espejo - Photo Credit Gentileza La Hora Avds. 6 de Diciembre y Patria N16-224 - Quito

Credit Arpitas Travelogue - National Library Bhutan

Venice - San Lazzaro degli Armeni - Credit Armenian Weekly

Vienna - Mekhitarist Monastery of Vienna (Armenian: Վիեննայի Մխիթարեան Վանատուն)

Tokyo Tama Art University Library (Architect: Toyo Ito and Associates, Photography: Ishiguro Photographic Institute, Photographs provided by: Australian Institute of Architects )

Zagreb - Old National Library - National Archives

Gunnar Asplund's Stockholm Library

Sarajevo's National Library

Republic Square, Valletta, Malta. Library founded by Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc in 1776 out of the collections of the knight Louis Guérin de Tencin - Credit Filming in Malta - National…

National Library Singapore

National Library José Martí -1901

Hemingway's Library_Finca Vigia - San Francisco de Paula

Seoul Library - Reading Room - Credit Word Press

Notational Farsi Library - Kerman City - Kerman Province -Architect - Ostad Me’mar Bashi -Credit Kerman Notational Library

Shahbanou (Queen) Farah Pahlavi's - Library - Niavaran Palace _ Tehran - Credit MuseumViews

IFRI - Library - 1, rue Adib, Ave. Vahid Nazari, Ave. Felestin B.P. 15815-3495, Téhéran, Iran - Credit IFRI

3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway Mount Vernon, VA 22121

Reagan Presidential Library - Simi Valley - Credit Porta-Stor

The Grand Library of Québec in Montreal_Patkau Architects with Croft Pelletier and Menkès Shooner Dagenais Architectes Associés

Parliament Library - Ottawa - Photo LIBRARY'S FLIKR ACCOUNT.

Ulaanbataar - Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library

British Museum London

Les Aigues Library, by Clotet+Aparicio. Barcelona

Château du Lude - Loire Valley - Le Lude - Sarthe department - Pays-de-la-Loire

Château d'Arcangues Château d'Arcangues 64200 Arcangues (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) - opened for weddings

Palazzo Branciforte

Glasgow School of Arts - Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Library of the St-Stefanus monastery in Ghent

Debrecen University

Liechtenstein Palace Library - Vienna

Abbey Library of Saint Gall - Architect Peter Thumb (1681–1767)

Credit Entropy - Library Stuttgart

Polish Baroque palace of the Raczyński family in Rogalin - The Library -18th Century

Biblioteca Vasconcelos

Franciszek Smuglewicz Hall -Vilnius University Library

Rome - Angelica Public Library - Piazza Sant'Agostino

Connemara Public Library, Chennai (fka Madras) - State of Tamil Nadu

fonthill castle library Doylestown

Krakow, Collegium Maius, Jagiellonian University

Tallin - National Library

National Library - Riga

Prince Yusupov Palace's Library - St Petersburg

Belgrade - National Library

National Library - Ljubljana

Versailles - Louis XVI's Library

Le Puy-en-Velay - Auvergne

Oxford Union Library - Oxford

King Ludwig's Library - Neuschwanstein - Bavaria

Philosophical Hall - Prague

Tabanlioglu Architects' design for the Beyazit Public Library in Istanbul

Yusuf Ağa - Konya

Israel College of the Bible (המכללה למקרא) - Netanya

Muyinga Library - NGO ODEDIM Organisation Diocésaine pour l'Entraide et le Développement Intégral de Muyinga - Architect: BC Architects & Studies Budget: 40 000 € Area: 140m2

Vennesla designed by Helen & Hard

Alidad Design Ltd -314-316 Harbour Yard- Chelsea Harbour, London - Ottoman inspired Library

Philology Library - Foster and Partners -Berlin

Bebelplatz - Berlin Old Library - Memorial to burned books of Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Helen Keller, Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, John Dos Passos, Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Upton…

Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum -Humboldt University- Berlin -Photo by Christian Wiedel on Flickr

Vassar Library

Naples - Biblioteca Nazionale

El Escorial - Madrid

State Law Library - Des Moines

Castle of Fontainebleau Library

1906 - John Pierpont "J. P." Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) American financier and banker's Library - 225 Madison Avenue at East 36th Street in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan,

Kansalliskirjasto - Helsinki

Peterhof Library - St Petersburg

National Palace Library of Mafra - Designed by the German architect João Frederico Ludovice,

Oberlauzitsiche Bibliothek der Wissenschaften - Library of Sciences - Görlitz - Saxony

Iowa State Library

Biblioteca Joanina - In honoring King John V (1707-1750) - Coimbra

Wien - Austrian National Library

St Florian Monastery - Sankt Florian - 1744

George Peabody Library - Peabody Institute of Music

Admont Library - Styria - Benedictine monastery

Reformed Theological Academy of Sárospatak

1813 - Gheorghe Asachi - Technical University

Brooklin Library - Room where the album "Tintin Au Congo" was relegated after a patron objected to its content - Photographed by Ruby Washington for the New-York Times. The album "Eloise in Paris"…

Lanier Theological Library

Chatsworth House - Duke and Duchess of Devonshire

Royal Academy of Art The Hague

Royal Academy of Arts Library

Rome - Dominican Cardinal Girolamo Casanata's library - 1701

Rome - Biblioteca di archeologia e storia dell’arte - Rome

Rome - Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana

Rome - Vallicelliana Library

Rome - Angelica Library

Vatican Library - Rome

Bologna - Biblioteca dell'Archiginnasio

Hearst Castle Library

Manchester University Library

Wiblingen Monastery - Upper Swabia - Rococo architecture -Ulm - Founded in 1093 dedicated to St Martin for Benedictine monks from St Blasien in the Black Forest