The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 296
They wereusually situated in spacious gardens surrounded byhigh crenellated walls and entered by one or moresplendid gateways. The building itself was eithersquare or octagonal, with four imposing entrances,and crowned by a large central dome and smallersupplementary domes. The whole mass stood… … ill fell Q -4—> u a* O Pi XX! w ■ JIB ■%1 19 274 THE MAHOMETAN OR SARACEXIC STYLE. building was used as a festal hall, or place of generalrecreation, but at his death it was handed over to thecare of priests, and assumed the serious attitude ofits original intention. One of the best examples of…
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