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4 unusual facts about Islamic architecture


Americanization School

The Americanization school displays hints of Art Deco while also taking in North AfricanIslamic influences that he picked up from his brief partnership with Frank Mead, another San Diego architect.

Islamic Society of North America Elementary School

The facelift added a cream-yellow insulation to the brick building and archways to the design, embodying Islamic architecture - resembling the design of its high school branch.

Mahale Chiniha

The buildings are a unique mixture of traditional, modern, Chinese and Islamic architecture.

Melli Bank, University of Tehran Branch

Despite the modest fee, Utzon accepted the design assignment as he was keen to become more closely associated with Islamic architecture.


Azadi Tower

The architect, Hossein Amanat, won a competition to design the monument, which combines elements of Sassanid and Islamic architecture.

Dargah

In China, the term gongbei is usually used for shrine complexes centered around a Sufi saint's tomb.

Iwan

Iwans are most commonly associated with Islamic architecture; however, the form was invented much earlier and fully developed in Mesopotamia, around the third century CE during the Parthian period.

Lascar War Memorial

The memorial built in the Indo-Mughal style by William Ingram Keir, who also designed the Kidderpore Bridge, buildings at Bengal Engineering and Science University in Shibpur, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and Islamia College, and also replaced the 1934 earthquake affected spire of St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata with a tower.


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Stari Most

One of the country's most recognizable landmarks, it is also considered one of the most exemplary pieces of Islamic architecture in the Balkans and was designed by Mimar Hayruddin, a student and apprentice of the famous architect Mimar Sinan.

Tourism in Sindh

Islamic architecture is quite prominent in the province with the Jama Masjid in Thatta built by the Mughal emperor Shahjahan and numerous mausoleums dot the province including the very old Shahbaz Qalander mausoleum dedicated to the Iranian-born Sufi and the beautiful mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah known as the Mazar-e-Quaid in Karachi.