A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 526
e coming from Persia are alikeunstudied and unknown except for the occasionalevidence of photographs taken for another pur-pose. The opjjortunity for enlarged archaeo-logical research in the one case, and of socialstudy in the second, with the architecturalinterest inherent in both would seem to… … TURKISH akchitectukj: Interior of the great Mosque of Sultan Suleiman I.(Suleimanieh). This is the most important pieceof Turkish architecture, and was built in imitationof the church of S. Sophia, at least in so far as thecupola and pendentives are concerned. Stainedglass is remarkable as the most…
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