A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revisedHamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
History
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revised
Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
Architecture -- History
+MONUMENTS.+ ARABIAN: “Mosque of Omar,” or Dome of the Rock, 638;
El Aksah, by ’Abd-el-Melek, 691, both at Jerusalem; Mosque ’Amrou
at Cairo, 642; mosques at Cyrene, 665; great mosque of El Walîd,
Damascus, 705-717. Bagdad built, 755. Great mosque at Kairouân,
737. At Cairo, Ibn Touloun, 876; Gama-El-Azhar, 971; Barkouk,
1149; “Tombs of Khalîfs” (Karafah), 1250-1400; Moristan Kalaoun,
1284; Medresseh Sultan Hassan, 1356; El Azhar enlarged; El Mûayed,
1415; Kaïd Bey, 1463; Sinan Pacha, 1468; “Tombs of Mamelukes,”
16th century. Also palaces, baths, fountains, mosques, and tombs.
MORESQUE: Mosque at Saragossa, 713; mosque and arsenal at Tunis,
742; great mosque at Cordova, 786, 876, 975; sanctuary, 14th
century. Mosques, baths, etc., at Cordova, Tarragona, Segovia,
Toledo, 960-980; mosque of Sobeiha at Cordova, 981. Palaces and
mosques at Fez; great mosque at Seville, 1172. Extensive building
in Morocco close of 12th century. Giralda at Seville, 1160;
Alcazars in Malaga and Seville, 1225-1300; Alhambra and Generalife
at Granada, 1248, 1279, 1306; also mosques, baths, etc. Yussuf
builds palace at Malaga, 1348; palaces at Granada. PERSIAN: Tombs
near Bagdad, 786 (?); mosque at Tabriz, 1300; tomb of Khodabendeh
at Sultaniyeh, 1313; Meidan Shah (square) and Mesjid Shah (mosque)
at Ispahan, 17th century; Medresseh (school) of Sultan Hussein,
18th century; palaces of Chehil Soutoun (forty columns) and Aineh
Khaneh (Palace of Mirrors). Baths, tombs, bazaars, etc., at
Cashan, Koum, Kasmin, etc. Aminabad Caravanserai between Shiraz
and Ispahan; bazaar at Ispahan.
INDIAN: Mosque and “Kutub Minar” (tower) _cir._ 1200; Tomb of
Altumsh, 1236; mosque at Ajmir, 1211-1236; tomb at Old Delhi;
Adina Mosque, Maldah, 1358. Mosques Jumma Musjid and Lal Durwaza
at Jaunpore, first half of 15th century. Mosque and bazaar,
Kalburgah, 1435 (?). Mosques at Ahmedabad and Sirkedj, middle 15th
century. Mosque Jumma Musjid and Tomb of Mahmûd, Bijapur, _cir._
1550. Tomb of Humayûn, Delhi; of Mohammed Ghaus, Gwalior; mosque
at Futtehpore Sikhri; palace at Allahabad; tomb of Akbar at
Secundra, all by Akbar, 1556-1605. Palace and Jumma Musjid at
Delhi; Muti Musjid (Pearl mosque) and Taj Mahal at Agra, by Shah
Jehan, 1628-1658.
TURKISH: Tomb of Osman, Brusa, 1326; Green Mosque (Yeshil Djami)
Brusa, _cir._ 1350. Mosque at Isnik (Nicæa), 1376. Mehmediyeh
(mosque Mehmet II.) Constantinople, 1453; mosque at Eyoub; Tchinli
Kiosque, by Mehmet II., 1450-60; mosque Bayazid, 1500; Selim I.,
1520; Suleimaniyeh, by Sinan, 1553; Ahmediyeh by Ahmet I., 1608;
Yeni Djami, 1665; Nouri Osman, by Osman III., 1755; mosque
Mohammed Ali in Cairo, 1824. Mosque at Adrianople. KHANS,
cloistered courts for public business and commercial lodgers,
various dates, 16th and 17th centuries (Validé Khan, Vizir Khan),
vaulted bazaars, fountains, Seraskierat Tower, all at
Constantinople.
CHAPTER XIII.
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