Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada (1913)
Macdonald, Ivan S, McLean, Robert Craik, Reed, Frederick, Keith, Fraser Sanderson, 1878-, Toutloff, M. B · Toronto : Consolidated Press · leaf 65
s and cedar gathered from the entire world andstands a living monument to the skill and artisticnature of its creators. The previous conflagrationspersuaded Justinian to use little wood. He enrichedthe walls with mosaics; made the doors of silver gilt,ivory, amber and cedar: laid the pavement in… … bearing the names of Allah, the Prophet and hisCaliphs. Ferguson says: The eye wanders up-wards from the large arcades of the ground floor tothe smaller arches of the galleries, and thence to thesmaller semi-domes. These lead the eye to thelarger, and the whole culminates in the great centralroof.…
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