A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 561
an-tine in style, and has wholly perished. Themosque of Amru, at Fostat, near the modernCairo, built a few years later, was a purelyCoptic design ; a few vestiges of it still exist.Other edifices in Jerusalem (El Aksah, KubbetYakub, Mehd Isa, Djaim, etc.) and in Arabiawere either Coptic or… … MOSLEM ARCHITECTURK The detail of the mosque of Kait Bey, in Cairo, jmitated in ^V}-^^ ^^^ of U,e J^^^^^^-EVPt. The use of scroll patterns and interlacuig 1 his mosque, wi l.m «^^5,.>.| ,.;. ,, ,„ustmierus in l,:.w relief and iu cut stone is very inter- the ftfteentl, cen.nry of e [ ^- ■ ^ J,,…
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