- sahn: Central court of a blank" >mosque.
- imaret: A target="_blank" >glossary/type/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="3d92a2465f8a27a795caa2328ac6595f" target="_blank" >type of hostelry for the accommodation of Muslim pilgrims and other travelers in the Turkish empire.
- khanaqah: Hostel for Muslim mystics, usually in the form of a court with individual cells around three sides of the perimeter, with an assembly-house/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="4d8d702b37a7ba2341c578ad4aae854c" target="_blank" >hall on the fourth side…
- Koran: The sacred text of Islam, revered as the revelations made by Allah to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics.
- madrasa: Islamic theological/legal place of instruction, usually with a court with iwan, accommodation, and study-cells. The grandest madrasas resembled four-iwan-mosque/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="e9ddf822a58d3f6fb43176d639b37b9a" target="_blank" >four-iwan mosque plans, with cells on two story’s arranged around the court…
- madraseh: Islamic theological/legal place of instruction, usually with a court with iwan, accommodation, and study-cells. The grandest madrasas resembled four-iwan mosque plans, with cells on two story’s arranged around the court…
- madrassa: Islamic theological/legal place of instruction, usually with a court with iwan, accommodation, and study-cells. The grandest madrasas resembled four-iwan mosque plans, with cells on two story’s arranged around the court…
- medreseh: Islamic theological/legal place of instruction, usually with a court with iwan, accommodation, and study-cells. The grandest madrasas resembled four-iwan mosque plans, with cells on two story’s arranged around the court…
- medresseh: A college of Moslem law, often a mosque so used.
- khanka: The Muslim equivalent of a monastery; a retreat for dervishes. Also see khanka.
- mosque: The building which for Moslems takes the place of the church among Christians and the synagogue among Jews; that is to say, a specially appointed place for prayer and exhortation. Attendance there is enjoined by the law of Islam. An Islamic building used for communal prayer.
- musjid: A Muslim building or place of public worship.
- ch’ing chen ssu: An Islamic temple in ancient China; follows designs similar to such temples in the Near East, but assimilated into the Chinese style since the Yan dynasty (14th to 17th century); usually constructed of wood but many are masonry.
- gami: Same as jami.
- jami: A mosque intended for large congregations.
- jumma musjid: In India, the principal mosque of a town. That of Delhi, of red sandstone with cupolas of marble and standing on a high terrace, is of the Mohammedan epoch, finished in 1648…
- masjid: A Muslim house of worship; a mosque. Also see masged.
- haram: A temenos or sacred area in architecture/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="7461ab15659bb8f36d1b84746429b141" target="_blank" >Muslim architecture.
- keblah: Also see kiblah.
- kibla: The wall in a mosque in which the mihrab is set, oriented to Mecca.
- kiblah: In Islam, the required orientation of the prayer niche, toward Mecca. Also see keblah, qibla.
- kibleh: Also see keblah.
- maksoorah: In a mosque, an area which is enclosed by a screen or partition and which is reserved for prayer or surrounds a tomb.
- maqsura: An enclosure in a mosque which includes the praying niche, made usually of an openwork screen; originally meant for the sultan during public prayers.
- musalla: A place of Muslim worship; a prayer hall.
- dikka: Islamic architectural term for the tribune raised upon columns, from which the Koran is recited and the prayers intoned by the Imam of the mosque.
- qibla: In Islam, the required orientation of the prayer niche, toward Mecca.
- almimbar: Also see minbar.
- mimbar: A pulpit in a mosque, recalling the three steps from which Muhammad addressed his followers.
- minbar: The pulpit in a mosque.
- mehrab: Also see mihrab.
- mida’a: Also see midha.
- midha: A place for ritual ablutions in a mosque. Same as mida’a.
- tecassir: In Mohammedan architecture, a gallery in a mosque, especially for the use of women.
- ziyada: A court or series of courts around a mosque which serves to shelter it from immediate contact with secular buildings.
- zone-of-transition/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="671eef1b0cd7157967751f5d8c7cb55c" target="_blank" >zone of transition: That part of the interior surface of an Islamic building lying between the vertical walls of a square or polygonal room and the dome over: it may be covered with muqarnas.
- zulla: A covered colonnade in a mosque.
- maqsurah: In Islamic architecture, the sanctuary or praying-chamber in a mosque, sometimes enclosed with a screen of lattice-work/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="bf1d30d58500241fa2e3770593bcfa44" target="_blank" >lattice-work; occasionally, a similar enclosure round a tomb.
- mashad: A Muslim shrine.
- minar/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="0618dd403b85e3bce6dac83b668e90e3" target="_blank" >kutub minar: In Moslem architecture, a tower; usually, in English, equivalent to minaret…
- minaret: A tall, slender tower attached to a mosque with one or more projecting balconies.
Also see Architecture index.