It is one of the oldest elements of Islamic architecture and is found next to most mosques.

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Riyadh’s largest mosque, the monumental (a)   , is one of the capital city’s most important Islamic institutions.

occurs when there is congruence in dimensions, due proportions and arrangement. It provides a sense of harmony and balance in Iranian architecture.

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"place of prostration."

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one of the precious early stone material of india

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Evident in both entrances and interiors, Islamic arches are categorized into four main styles: pointed, ogee, horseshoe, and multifoil.

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It was the earliest mosque built in east Arabia and most of the original structure is in ruins. The site is still used for prayer.

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A large building or complex of buildings used as a military stronghold and use as protection for invaders.

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The Arabic word for "announcement". Traditionally chanted from the top of a minaret by a Muezzin, a specially trained singer with a strong and expressive voice. It is the Muslim call to Friday public worship and to the five daily hours of prayer.

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The official who proclaims the call to prayer (adhān) on Friday for the public worship and the call to the daily prayer (ṣalāt) five times a day, at dawn, noon, midafternoon, sunset, and nightfall.

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The minbar is a pulpit in the form of a staircase on which the prayer leader (imam) stands when delivering a sermon after Friday prayer. The pulpit is usually situated to the right of the mihrab and is often made of elaborately carved wood or stone.

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the central place of worship of Muslims. It has several names including the Great Mosque of Mecca, Haram Mosque, and the Holy Mosque. (a)   is the largest mosque in the world.

A shrine located near the centre of the Great Mosque in Mecca and considered by Muslims everywhere to be the most sacred.  The (a)   , also known as Baytullah (The House of Allah) is the first house built for humanity to worship Allah.

“Mosque of the Two Qiblas”

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The one who leads the congregation to prayer in Islamic religion. They lead daily prayers, teach people about the Quran, the Muslim holy book.

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The notable 56 domes of the  Mosques

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The Prophet's Mosque, the second-holiest site in Islam, is one of the world’s oldest mosques, as well as one of its largest.

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art form is intricate metal and wood work

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this place contains the best preserved and the largest of all the ziggurats of Mesopotamia and Iran plateau.

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Semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, the direction that Muslims should face when praying. It is the most decorated part of the mosque. It is a niche oriented towards Mecca.

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An (a)   is a vaulted space that opens on one side to a courtyard.

their circular shape represented perfection, eternity and the heavens

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typically applied to the undersides of domes, pendentives, cornices, squinches, arches, and vaults and is often seen in the mihrab of a mosque. They can be entirely ornamental, or serve as load-bearing structures

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In Western India the rock-cut " (a)   " of the Buddhists were produced in the actual geological formation; for they were carved in the horizontal strata of the living rock, where it rises sheer from the ground in perpendicular cliffs.

asserts an identity between God and nature

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(a)   relating to or characterized by belief in or worship of more than one god.

the first member of the Hindu Trinity and is “the Creator” because he periodically creates everything in the universe.

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the second member of the Hindu Trinity. He maintains the order and harmony of the universe, which is periodically created by Brahma and periodically destroyed by Shiva to prepare for the next creation.

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Shiva is the third member of the Hindu Trinity, tasked with destroying the universe in order to prepare for its renewal at the end of each cycle of time. Shiva’s destructive power is regenerative: It’s the necessary step that makes renewal possible.

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The first Buddhist cave monuments

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ancient Buddhist caves that have developed over a period from the 5th century to the 2nd century BCE. They are a group of 16 caves, out of which one is the Great Chaitya Cave, three were used for the Mahayana teachings, and the remaining ones were monasteries.

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These are a group of 117 caves with rich historical and religious importance that can be seen through the inscriptions and detailed sculptures.

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the largest cave with two stories, decorative columns, carvings, and sculptures relating to wild animals, human figures, and Jain religious inscriptions. 

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These 15 rock-cut structures are Hindu temples built in the 8th century. They are built in the North Indian Nagara style of temple architecture in the Kangra Valley of the Beas River, with a background of the Himalayan ranges. The temple is carved out of natural sandstone and it has a pool and mandapa at the entrance.

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Buddhist shrine or prayer hall with a stupa at one end. In modern texts on Indian architecture, the term (a)   is often used to denote an assembly or prayer hall that houses a stupa.

It is generally considered to be a sepulchral monument—a place of burial or a receptacle for religious objects. At its simplest, a (a)   is a dirt burial mound faced with stone.

Indian gateway, usually of stone, marking the entrance to aBuddhist shrine or stupa or to a Hindu temple.

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an early type of Buddhist monastery consisting of an open court surrounded by open cells accessible through an entrance porch.

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The development of Muslim Style of Architecture of this period can be called (a)   or the Indian Architecture influenced by Islamic Art.

built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife, the (a)   is the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.

'Akshardham' means the divine abode of God. It is hailed as an eternal place of devotion, purity and peace. (a)   at New Delhi is a Mandir – an abode of God, a Hindu house of worship, and a spiritual and cultural campus dedicated to devotion, learning and harmony.

Pioneered by ancient Nepalese craftsmen, this style of architecture travelled to other parts of the world like China and Tibet via Nepalese artisans only later.

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Monkey Temple

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One of the most auspicious Buddhist shrines in Nepal, this Stupa is more than 1500 years old and attracts followers of all religions, especially Buddhism, on a large scale.

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It is one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites for Buddhists, across the world.

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a tall curvilinear or pyramidal tower

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One of the holiest Hindu shrines in Nepal, the (a)   is stretched across both the banks of the beautiful and sacred Bagmati River on the eastern fringes of the capital city of Kathmandu.