Housed in madrasas, mosques, Sufi convents, mausolea, and hospitals, these libraries contained works on the religious and rational sciences as well as literature and poetry. |
Following the recent discovery that Vanbrugh visited India and drew Mogul mausolea, Hart compares the pinnacled skyline of Blenheim to the Taj Mahal. |
And then there are the buildings for the dead, the mausolea in landscaped settings which were almost the favourite building type of the British neo-classical architect. |
In India these endless mosques and rhetorical mausolea, these great palaces speak only of a personal plunder and a country with an infinite capacity for being plundered. |
Between this and the canal we discovered warehouses, mausolea and other buildings that fronted on to the road. |
With baptistries and mausolea, their often smaller size and different function made martyria suitable for architectural experimentation. |