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In religious architecture, Babur's mosques also followed the designs of earlier Timurid mosques, with a tall central entrance portal (pishtaq), a courtyard, and a prayer hall covered by a large central dome flanked by side aisles covered by smaller domes. An example of this is his mosque at Panipat. [5] [7]
The dome in this case, however, is most evocative of the central mihrab dome of the Great Mosque of Cordoba. Over an octagonal room, the stone dome is formed by sixteen ribs, eight of which intersect with one another in a star pattern to define a smaller octagon at the center of the dome. [156]
The dome is located in the southeast corner of Al-Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina, present-day Saudi Arabia. [5] Millions visit it every year, since it is a tradition to visit the mosque after or before the pilgrimage to Mecca. The structure dates from AH 678 (1279/1280), when an unpainted wooden cupola was built over the tomb.
The mosque's prayer hall is covered by a dome system typical of Classical Ottoman architecture and first employed by Sinan for the Şehzade Mosque (c. 1548) in Istanbul: a large central dome flanked by four semi-domes, with four smaller domes at the corners and pendentives in the transitional zones between the semi-domes.
Based on the evidence from Nishapur and Tim, some scholars have theorized that muqarnas originated in northeastern Iran and that it was further developed in subsequent Great Seljuk architecture, as seen in the Seljuk domes of the Great Mosque of Isfahan (1088). [7] Imam Dur Mausoleum (1090), with exterior view of its muqarnas dome
The Hacı Özbek Mosque (1333) in İznik is the oldest Ottoman mosque with an inscription that documents its construction. [13] It is also the first example of an Ottoman single-domed mosque, consisting of a square chamber covered by a dome. [25]
Persian dome chambers in mosques were derived from the chahar taq dome chambers of Sasanian Fire Temples and consisted of three parts: the load-bearing system, the transition tier, and the dome itself. Double and triple shell domes had considerable space between the shells or could be connected and the outer shell could be conical, onion-shaped ...
'Dome of the Treasury'), also known as the Bayt al-Mal or Beit al-Mal, [1] [2] is an old structure within the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. It is an octagonal structure decorated with mosaics, standing on eight Roman columns. [3] The dome was built under orders from the Abbasid governor of Damascus, Fadl ibn Salih, in 789 ...