Arches, Columns & Gates On Stamps

Sultanate of Oman
25th May 2002
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Bausher

Entrance Gate

(the border, which appears black in the scan, is gold foil)

French Morocco
17th October 1952
Definitives
Karaouine Mosque, Fez

designed - Delpy, engraved - R Cottet

Here are two 2009 stamps issued by private courier "Nordkurier Briefdienst" of Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany. Stamps commemorate their 10 years of letter and parcel courier service in the state of Mecklenburg Vorpommern. The Nordkurier website lists approximately 470 different locations in the state where either letter service, parcel service, mailboxes, or some combination of these services is provided.

The stamps depict two gates in Neubrandenburg. The .44 euro standard letter rate stamp shows the Treptower outer gate. The same gate is depicted on the Bundesrepublik's 1966, 60 pf definitive stamp (Mi # 496) also shown here. From location scout.net, "Neubrandenburg has four of these gates. This one (Treptow) is one of the three double gates which is actually two (separate) gates. This one was built in the 14th century and is about 32 meters tall."

The 1.25 large letter rate stamp shows the Friedlander inner gate

United States
National Parks
June 2, 2016
The stamp depicts Delicate Arch in Arches National Park in Utah.

Chile
Valparaiso - World Heritage
July 12, 2010
Arco Británico is a monument in Valparaíso, Chile. It was donated to the town in 1910 by the British community there to mark the centenary of the Independence of Chile. Designed by the Chilean architect Alfredo Azancot, the arch was unveiled in 1911.

Japan
World Heritage
December 20, 2002
The stamp shows the gate of the Zakimi Castle, a 15th century stone rampart located in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands.

Turkmenistan
Archaeology
August 1, 2020
The stamp depicts the remains of the entrance to a mosque in Dekhistan, a thriving medieval city in the Misrian Valley near the Caspian Sea.

On August 4, 1966 Iceland issued a set of four, photogravure-printed stamps depicting some of the country's natural landscapes. The 6.50 kr value (Facit #440), shown here, features the natural stone arch at Dyrholaey.

From wikipedia, "Dyrholaey (Icelandic for 'door hill island'), formerly known by seamen as Cape Portland, is a small promontory located on the south coast of Iceland. In fact, Dyrholaey is the southernmost point in mainland Iceland."

This 200 millemes stamp (Sc #293) of Libya shows the ancient ruins of the Temple of Apollo in Cyrene. It is from a set of five Attractions stamps issued on December 24, 1965.

From wikipedia, "Cyrene was an Ancient Greek and later Roman city near present-day Shahhat, Libya. It was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times."

Photo shows a panorama of the ruins at Cyrene.