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Title: A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architects
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Moorish AKCHixKCTrRE: Very E.\rly StyleMosque, Cordova, Spain. 948
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MOOKISH ARCHITECTURE. MOSQUE (NOW CATHEDRAL) OF CORDOVA, SPAIN.949 »50 MOORISH ARCHITECTURE The result of these tendencies is seen in thecomparatively humble character of the build-ing of North Africa, while in the matter ofintelligent and interesting design those build-ings are equal to the buildings of Spain. Themosques, towers, and tombs of Tlemcen, Con-stantine, and Algiers in Algeria are the equalill good taste, in judicious planning, and invariety ami sprightliness of detail to the vastlymore expensive, costly, ami permanent struc-tures of the Spanish Peninsula. The buildingsof Morocco are less known, and the e.xistencefor many centuries of a benighted despotismseems to have told against the preservationof even what few Mohammedan buildings ofimportance may have once existed. In Spain, on the other hand, mosques ofgreat size were built at an early period, andthese were continually enlarged and enriched bysubsequent sovereigns. Fortress palaces (seeAlcazar) were erected, which c

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