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Caliph: |
a spiritual leader of Islam, claiming succession from Muhammad |
Dikka: |
a term in Muslim architecture for a tribune raised upon columns from which the Koran is recited and prayers are intoned by the Imam of a mosque |
| Mihrab: | (in a mosque) a niche or decorative panel designating the kiblah |
| Minaret: | a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer |
Minbar: |
a minbar , also spelt mimbar) is a pulpit in the mosque where the Imam (leader of prayer) stands to deliver sermons |
Mosaic: |
a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc |
Mosque: |
a Muslim temple or place of public worship. |
Muezzin: |
the crier who, from a minaret or other high part of a mosque, at stated hours five times daily, intones aloud the call summoning Muslims to prayer |
Pavilion: |
a projecting element of a façade, used esp. at the center or at each end and usually treated so as to suggest a tower |
Piers: |
any of various vertical supporting structures |
| Portico: | a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch. |