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| a porch or walkway with a roof supported by columns, often leading to the entrance of a building, esp. w/ a series of arches supported by columns, piers, or pillars |
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| squared hewn stone laid in regular courses w/ fine joints |
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| earthenware decorated with colorful, opaque glazes used for pottery or to decorate buildings, named after Faenza, Italy, where much ceramic ware was made circa 1300. |
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| a rest house for a company of travelers journeying together, esp. across a desert |
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| pointed or rounded, horseshoe shaped arch, with inward curve above the springer, often found in Islamic buildings |
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| a vaulted hall w/ an imposing arched opening; a feature of Sassanian and Islamic architecture |
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| the joining of wedge-shaped stone blocks that form an arch, by means of notch and projections |
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| a roofed but pen gallery or arcade along the front or side of a building, often at an upper level |
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| a projecting gallery at the top of a castle wall, supported by a row of corbeled arches, having openings in the floor through which stones and boiling liquids could be dropped on attackers; a row of small corbeled arches used as an ornamental architectural feature |
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| a large and stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or tombs |
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| a prayer niche in a mosque in the wall facing Mecca |
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| a tall, slender tower on a mosque w/ one or more projecting balconies from which a muezzin (crier or bells) summons the people to prayer |
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| a Moslem house of worship |
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| Great Congregational Mosque - brick building, w/ walled rectangular courtyard |
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| Teaching Mosque or theological school; more sophisticated, smaller, ashlar buildings |
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| an arch w/ scalloped edges or ornaments |
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| the direction of Mecca; by extension, the wall of a mosque that faces Mecca |
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| an arch or structural device forming the upper edge of an opening or a support, which is built diagonally across the corners of a rectangular space and used as the transition to a circular or octagonal superstructure |
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| stalactite ornamentation/decoration |
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| Islamic ceiling ornament made of up squinch arches to resemble natural stalactites (in caves, mineral rich water drips) |
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