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  2. History of domes in South Asia - Wikipedia

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    Although the tomb of Sikander Loki clearly has a double dome, with a distinct space between inner and outer shells, the earlier tomb of Shihab-ud-din Taj Khan (1501) has "an attempt in this direction". Although double domes had long been used in Persia, Iraq, and western Asia, Indian domes prior to this time domes had a single shell of stonework.

  3. History of early and simple domes - Wikipedia

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    That the dome was known to early Mesopotamia may explain the existence of domes in both China and the West in the first millennium BC. [14] Another explanation, however, is that the use of the dome shape in construction did not have a single point of origin and was common in virtually all cultures long before domes were constructed with ...

  4. History of early modern period domes - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Orthodox church domes were used in hundreds of Orthodox and Uniate wooden churches in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Tatar wooden mosques in Poland were domed central plan structures with adjacent minarets. The fully developed onion dome was prominent in Prague by the middle of the sixteenth century and appeared widely ...

  5. Architecture of India - Wikipedia

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    Employing the double dome, the recessed archway, the depiction of any animal or human—an essential part of the Indian tradition—was forbidden in places of worship under Islam. Mughal architecture reached its zenith during the reign of the emperor Shah Jahan (1628–58), its crowning achievement being the magnificent Taj Mahal.

  6. Hindu temple - Wikipedia

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    Tribal religions in India; Traditional. ... is a superstructure with a dome called Shikhara in north India, ... in North America and Europe have gained ...

  7. Dome - Wikipedia

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    Bulbous domes bulge out beyond their base diameters, offering a profile greater than a hemisphere. [3] An onion dome is a greater than hemispherical dome with a pointed top in an ogee profile. [3] They are found in the Near East, Middle East, Persia, and India and may not have had a single point of origin.

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  9. Symbolism of domes - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of the dome has been extensively analyzed by architectural historians. According to Nicola Camerlenghi, it may not be possible to arrive at a single "fixed meaning and universal significance" for domes across all building types and locations throughout history, since the shape, function, and context for individual buildings were determined locally, even if inspired by distant ...