Unlike all the provincial styles of Muslim Architecture in India, Bengal presents a special style of its own based on local traditions and techniques. The Muslims came to Bengal with a corpus …
From the plan and the aerial view of Great Mosque of Djenné, students should be able to identify the prayer hall, enclosed courtyard, and qibla wall with the mihrabs typical of hypostyle …
Brooklyn Museum Photograph by William Henry Goodyear, ‘Mosque of Suleiman I, Istanbul, Turkey, 1903’, Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum, Goodyear Archival Collection.
Figure 10: Masjid (mosque) Sultan of Ternate Mosque (Indonesian Masjid Sultan Ternate), also known as the Old Mosque of Ternate, is an old mosque in Ternate City, Indonesia is an …
The surviving examples of Great Seljuq architecture, mostly mosques, mausoleums, and a limited number of caravanserais, are found primarily in Iran and Turkmenistan. The almost universal …
Fig. 5. On the left, the original state of the mosque; on the right, the mosque after its transformation into a cathedral, along with the establishment of roads and the Ivichi Square. …
Its great masterpieces (from the Dome on the Rock in Jerusalem, the Taj Mahal in India to the Mosque of Cordoba in Spain) unite intricate spatial relationships, artistic illustration, …