Muslim Arte

1. Islamic Art

2. Lattice work or Geometrical motifs

3. Arabesque or Plant motifs (ataurique)

4. Calligraphy

6. Types of Domes (cúpulas)

7. Onion Dome (Cúpula bulbiforme o bulbosa)
Tal Mahal, Agra,
India. 1643
Madrasa de Sir Dar, Samarkand, Uzbekistan,
14th century approx.

8. Types of Domes

10. Gur e-Amir, Mausoleum of Tamerlane, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1403.

11. Floor plan of the Church “Cristo de
la Luz”, Toledo
Mihrab of the Mosque of
Cordoba
Califal domes
Types of Vaults
(Bóvedas)

12. Mosque of Cordoba (Other vaults).

13. Dome of Tlemcen, Algeria, 12th century

14. Mocárabes

15. Mihrab Mimbar

16. Mosque Quba, in Medina, (Saudi Arabia). Built in the 6th century during the rule of
Muhammad. Destroyed in the 20th century.

17. New Mosque of Quba, in Medina. (Saudi Arabia)

18. Mosque Masjid al-Haram, in Mecca, (Saudi Arabia). Built in 1570.

19. Dome of the Rock. Built in 691 and rebuilt in 1023. Jerusalem, Israel.
Umayyad Caliphate

20. Dome of the Rock. Built in 691 and rebuilt in 1023. Jerusalem, Israel.

21. Mosque of Damascus, 8th century

22. Mosque of Damascus, 8th century. Syria

23. Mosque of Damascus, 7th century

24. Great Mosque of Samarra, 9th century.
(North of Iraq)
Abbasid Caliphate

25. Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia, 9th century.
(North Africa)

26. Great Mosque of Kairouan, 9th century.
(Tunisia, North Africa)

27. Great Mosque of Isfahan, 8th – 21st century.
(Isfahan, Iran)

28. Great Mosque of Isfahan, 8th – 21st century. (Isfahan, Iran)
(Influence of the Sasanian empire in the Muslim architecture)

29. Ottoman Empire
Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Mezquita azul), 1609-1611. Istambul, Turkey.

30. Sultan Ahmed Mosque, 1609-1611. Istambul, Turkey.