Japanese Gateway

An elaborately carved ceremonial gateway in Indian Buddhist and Hindu Architecture, having two or three lintels between two posts.

A Buddhist memorial mound erected to enshrine a relic of Buddha and to commemorate some event or mark a sacred spot.

A Buddhist Shrine in India, usually carved out of solid rock on a hillside, having the form of an aisled basilica with a stupa at one end.

A Hindu Temple

A Buddhist monastery in Indian Architecture.

A freestanding memorial pillar in Indian Architecture, bearing carved inspirations, religious emblems, or a statue

An umbrella-shaped finial symbolizing dignity, composed of a stone disk on a vertical pole.

The oldest sacred writing of Hinduism, composed between 1500 and 800 BCE, incorporating four collections of hymns, prayers, and liturgical formulas

A Hindu or Buddhist diagram of the cosmos, characterized by concentric configuration of geometric shapes and often used to guide the design of Indian temple plans.

A monumental, usually ornate gateway tower to a Hindu Temple enclosure, esp. in Southern India

A tower of a Hindu Temple, usually tapered convexly and capped by an Amalaka.

The bulbous stone finial of a Sikhara.

A Hindu temple cut out of solid rock to resemble a chariot.

A monolithic stamba, as distinguished from one built up of stone courses.

A railing enclosing a sacred area, as that of a stupa.

A Buddhist monastery or temple in Thailand or Cambodia

A Tibetan Buddhist monastery or nunnery laid out in the form of a mandala, with a central prayer hall lined with benches and attached living accommodation for monks and nuns.

A muslim building or place of public worship.

Friday mosque a congregational mosque for public prayer, especially on Fridays.

A Friday mosque having a sahn for large congregations, dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries.

A Muslim theological school arranged around a courtyard and attached to a mosque.

The sacred text of the Islam

A large vaulted portal opening onto the central courtyard of a mosque.

A lofty, slender tower attached to a mosque, having stairs leading up to one or more projecting balconies from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.

The large open square of a city, used as a marketplace or parade ground, esp. in India

A court or series of courts serving to shelter a mosque from immediate contact with secular buildings.

A pulpit in a mosque, recalling the three steps from which Muhammed addressed his followers and from which the Imam delivers his sermons.

The wall in a mosque in which the mihrab is set, oriented to the Mecca.

A niche or decorative panel in a mosque designating the qibla.

A city in Saudi Arabia, birthplace of Muhammad and spiritual center of Islam.

A small, cubical stone building in the courtyard of the Great Mosque at Mecca, containing a sacred black stone and regarded by Muslims as the House of God, the objective of their pilgrimages and the point toward which they turn in praying.

An inn in the Near East for the overnight accommodations of caravans, usually having a large courtyard enclosed by a solid wall and entered through an imposing gateway.

The central courtyard of a Mosque.

An arcaded hall of a mosque.

A system of decoration in Islamic Architecture formed by the intricate corbelling of brackets, squinches and inverted pyramids, sometimes wrought in stone but more often in plaster.

A Buddhist temple in the form of a square or polugonal tower with roof projecting from each of its many stories, erected as a memorial or to hold relics.

A bracket system used in traditional Chinese construction to support roof beams

A cantilevered bracket in the Traditional Chinese Construction

A bearing block in traditional Chinese bracket system.

A representation of a Buddha.

A large representation of Buddha

Exact size of a Tatami

A picture recess; a shallow raised alcove or the display of a kakemono or flower arrangement.

A post marking the front of the partition between the tokonama and the tana, sometimes of exquisite wood of particular grain and slope.

An extension of the floor on one or more sides of a Japanese-style house, usually facing a garden and serving as a passageway or sitting space.

An elevated bay or projected window with a raised sill serving as a desk for writing or reading, usually placed at a right angle to the tokonama in the reception room

A linear unit for regulating column spacing in traditional Japanese construction, equal to 6 shaku in the inaka-ma method, and in the kyo-ma method.

Reading Desk

Where Prophet Muhammed ascended from to heaven. Considered as the most important structure to Islamic Architecture

Considered as the greatest architectural achievement in the whole range of Indo-Islamic Architecture.

Who built the Taj Mahal

Earliest surviving mosque

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A Buddhist World Heritage Site

The biggest religious structure in the world.