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| the mosque wall indicating the direction of Mecca. |
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| a recess or niche that distinguishes the wall oriented toward Mecca in a mosque. |
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| a tall toward next to a mosque from which believers are called to prayer. |
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includes: profession of faith
ritual prayer
almsgiving-charitable giving
fasting during Ramadan
a pilgrimage to Mecca |
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| the passage around the apse in a basilican church or around the central space in a central-plan building. |
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| a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament. |
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| a type of linear decoration particularly popular in ancient and early medieval art, in which ribbonlike serpents, vines, or animals or ribbons are interwoven. |
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John-eagle
Mark-lion
Luke-ox
Matthew-winged man |
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| a room in a monastery for writing or copying manuscripts. |
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| a fine animal skin prepared for writing and painting. |
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| the monumental, west-facing entrance section of a Carolingian, Ottonian, or Romanesque church. The exterior consists of multiple stories between two towers, the interior includes an entrance vestibule, a chapel, and a gallery overlooking the nave. |
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| an open space, part of a monastery, surrounded by an arcaded or colonnaded walkway, often having a fountain and garden, and dedicated to nonliturgical activities and the secular life of the religious. |
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| a technique of hammering metal from the back to create a protruding image. |
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| the face or front wall of a building. |
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| an object or a personal item of religious significance, carefully preserved as a memorial. |
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| an arched masonry structure that spans an interior space. |
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| a unit of space defined by architectural elements such as columns, piers, and walls. |
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| the design of repeating a segment or portion of a design that can be connected together. Determines the length of the entire structure, one unit measures from square pier to next square pier. |
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| the arrangement, proportions, and details of any vertical side or face of a building. |
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| the area over a door enclosed by an arch and a lintel, often decorated with sculpture or mosaic. |
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| the technique in needlework of decorating fabric by stitching designs and figures of colored threads of fine material into another material. |
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| a container used to protect and display sacred relics. |
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| jamb figure (column figure) |
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| the vertical element found on both sides of an opening in a wall. |
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| a round window, with tracery patterns in the form of wheel spokes. |
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| an arch built on the exterior of a building that transfers the thrust of the roof vaults at important stress points to a detached buttress pier leading to the wall buttress. |
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| in a church nave, the long, narrow platforms supported by colonnades. |
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| the element of the interior elevation of a church, found between the nave arcade or colonnade and the clerestory, covers the blind area created by the sloping roof over the aisles. |
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| a tall, narrow window crowned by a sharply pointed arch. |
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| the thin stone or wooden bars in a Gothic window, screen, or panel, which create an elaborate decorative pattern wile supporting the structure. |
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| the lower part of a wall, differentiated in some way from the upper section. |
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| stylized leaves used in Gothic decoration. |
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| courtly style in which the figures body forms an S shape, with their hips thrust forward or to one side. |
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| a crucifix which holds a narrative or story adorned with figures of humans, or animals. |
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| a style of the wall of a cathedral that is low, and wide profile. -i.e. Salibury Cathedral |
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| the human Christ that feels pain. |
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| a church with a nave and aisles of the same height, giving the impression of a large, open hall. |
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| the Italian word for "majesty", designates an iconic formula of the enthroned Madonna with the child Jesus, whether or not accompanied with angels and saints. |
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| a device used in systems of spatial definition. |
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| a narrative depicting Mary and others mourning the death of Christ. |
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| a painting executed primarily in shades of gray. |
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| a generic Italian term for a cathedral church. |
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| a painted or carved panel or winged structure placed at the back of or behind or above the altar. |
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