Some articles on central dome, domes, central, dome:
... The mosque was built with a central dome surrounded by four small and four semicircular domes ... The central dome is 21 meters in diameter and the height of the building is 52 meters ... The use of this style, combined with the presence of two minarets and multiple half-domes surrounding the central dome — features reserved for mosques built on the authority of the Sultan ...
... architecture with its characteristic round arches, vaults and domes ... the early Abbasid mosques, T-type mosques, and the central-dome mosques of Anatolia ... The Ottomans introduced central dome mosques in the 15th century that have a large dome centered over the prayer hall ...
... Despite the fact that the artwork of the central dome no longer exists, a picture of it can still be reconstructed ... Francesco d'Ollanda made water-color copies of the mosaics in the central dome ...
Famous quotes containing the words dome and/or central:
“Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“There has never been in history another such culture as the Western civilization M a culture which has practiced the belief that the physical and social environment of man is subject to rational manipulation and that history is subject to the will and action of man; whereas central to the traditional cultures of the rivals of Western civilization, those of Africa and Asia, is a belief that it is environment that dominates man.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)