The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 255
ree sides, whilst generally the vesti-bules occupy the whole breadth of the. building. The Ecs Miazinhas also a salient ahsis on each of its two lateral faces. We may observe that it is from these models the Turks have bor-rowed the form of their mosques. Thus, also, they adopt a Temenoaor square… … The earliest Greek churches have a very simple front, a large mass,bounded at top by a horizontal line, without any pediment to indicatethe inclination of the roof, carpentry not being used in Byzantine ar-chitecture, as cupolas and terraces only were used to cover in thebuilding. Eusebius,!…
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