A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 532
c under Post). MIHRAB. (The Arabic word used inEgypt and so generally transliterated ; Mehrabas wiitten by Lane.) A niche in the wall of amosque ; or sometimes a mere semblance of aniche, as a decorative panel or tlie like, indi-cating the direction of the Holy City of Meccaand the most sacred of… … I ji<? MINARET Of the two examples that on the left belongs to pieces of Moslem art of the Middle Ages, about the mosque of Sultan Kalaun in Cairo, which is 1320 a.d. Tlie one on the riglit is that of the generally given as 193 feet high. The mosque is mosque of El B<irdei or El Bordenei,…
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