A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1874)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 550
widerthan the others. The total length from the Kibleh, or niche pointingto Mecca, to the opposite wall was 97 cubits (146 ft.), the breadthfrom E. to W. 49 cifbits (74 ft.). It was finished in the year 941,and seems to have been one of the last works of the palace, havingbeen commenced in 936.… … it never had that accompaniment, but was in reality only a basilicaextended laterally, but on a small scale. The church of Sta. Maria la Blanca (Woodcuts Nos. 721, 722),described in a previous chapter, though built for another people, andfor a different purpose, is still so essentially in the…
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