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SARACENTC ATiCHITECTURE.
Book IX.
Aksali, and covered by a wooden roof. All tliis part of the mosque,
lrowever, has heen so often repaired and renovated, that little pro-
bably of the original decoration re-
mains.
Of the original mosque, or per-
haps church, tlie only part tliat can
with certainty be said to remain is
a portion of tlie outer wall, repre-
sented in woodcut No. 314, which
possesses the peculiarity of being
built with pointed arclies, similar
in form to those of el Aksah at J eru-
salem. They are now built up, and
must have been so at the time of
one of the earlier alterations; still
they are from their undoubted anti-
quity a curious contribution to the
much-oontested history of the pointed
arch. The whole mosque is now in
a sad state of degradation and decay, notwithstanding the beautiiul
climate of Egypt, arising principally from its original faulty construc-
SARACENTC ATiCHITECTURE.
Book IX.
Aksali, and covered by a wooden roof. All tliis part of the mosque,
lrowever, has heen so often repaired and renovated, that little pro-
bably of the original decoration re-
mains.
Of the original mosque, or per-
haps church, tlie only part tliat can
with certainty be said to remain is
a portion of tlie outer wall, repre-
sented in woodcut No. 314, which
possesses the peculiarity of being
built with pointed arclies, similar
in form to those of el Aksah at J eru-
salem. They are now built up, and
must have been so at the time of
one of the earlier alterations; still
they are from their undoubted anti-
quity a curious contribution to the
much-oontested history of the pointed
arch. The whole mosque is now in
a sad state of degradation and decay, notwithstanding the beautiiul
climate of Egypt, arising principally from its original faulty construc-