A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 506
The fourth side wasclosed by the mosque proper, the prayer-room ormaksourah, a low hall consisting of severaltransverse aisles separated by arcades on piersor columns, open at the front to the court, andprovided on the farther side — always to theeastward — with one or more niches… … EGYPT one or more gates. Such were the mosques ofAmru (GlL), of whose original structure liardlya trace remains, tliough its phin survives in thepresent ruinous mosque of that name; of IbnTuliln (87(5), in which the Coptic architect dis-pensed with columns by the use of brick pierswith engaged…
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