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INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. Book VI]
been, if completed, a rectangle of 331 ft. by 257 ft. The mosque
itself is perfect, and measures 257 ft. by 145 ft., and consequently
covers about 37,000 sq. ft. It consequently is in itself only a
very little less than the mosque at Kalburgah; but this is irre-
spective of the wings, which extend 186 ft. beyond, so that if com-
plete it would have covered about 50,000 sq. ft. to 55,000 sq. ft.,
or about the usual size of a media3val cathedral. It is more re-
markable, however, for the beauty of its details than either the
arrangement or extent of its plan. Each
of the squares into which it is divided is
roofed by a dome of very beautiful form,
but so fiat (Woodcut No. 318) as to be
concealed externally in the thickness of
the roof. Twelve of these squares are
occupied in the centre by the great dome,
57 ft. in diameter in the circular part, but
standing on a square measuring 70 ft. each
way. The dimensions of this dome were
immensely exceeded afterwards by that
which covers the tomb of Mahmud, con-
structed on the same plan and 124 ft. in
diameter; but the smaller dimensions here employed enabled tin1
architect to use taller and more graceful outlines, and if he had had
the courage to pierce the niches jit the base of bis dome, and make
his. PJmn ai d se. tton 01 Kmaller
Doni i of Jumma Mtujid.
Scale 50 It. to 1 in.
319. Section on the line A B through the Great. Dome of the Jumilil Mus,id. (Krom u Drawing
by Mi Camming.) Scale 60 ft. to 1 in.
them into^windows, he would probably have had the credit of design-
ing the most graceful building of its class in existence.
If the plan of this mosque is compared with that of Kallmrgah
INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. Book VI]
been, if completed, a rectangle of 331 ft. by 257 ft. The mosque
itself is perfect, and measures 257 ft. by 145 ft., and consequently
covers about 37,000 sq. ft. It consequently is in itself only a
very little less than the mosque at Kalburgah; but this is irre-
spective of the wings, which extend 186 ft. beyond, so that if com-
plete it would have covered about 50,000 sq. ft. to 55,000 sq. ft.,
or about the usual size of a media3val cathedral. It is more re-
markable, however, for the beauty of its details than either the
arrangement or extent of its plan. Each
of the squares into which it is divided is
roofed by a dome of very beautiful form,
but so fiat (Woodcut No. 318) as to be
concealed externally in the thickness of
the roof. Twelve of these squares are
occupied in the centre by the great dome,
57 ft. in diameter in the circular part, but
standing on a square measuring 70 ft. each
way. The dimensions of this dome were
immensely exceeded afterwards by that
which covers the tomb of Mahmud, con-
structed on the same plan and 124 ft. in
diameter; but the smaller dimensions here employed enabled tin1
architect to use taller and more graceful outlines, and if he had had
the courage to pierce the niches jit the base of bis dome, and make
his. PJmn ai d se. tton 01 Kmaller
Doni i of Jumma Mtujid.
Scale 50 It. to 1 in.
319. Section on the line A B through the Great. Dome of the Jumilil Mus,id. (Krom u Drawing
by Mi Camming.) Scale 60 ft. to 1 in.
them into^windows, he would probably have had the credit of design-
ing the most graceful building of its class in existence.
If the plan of this mosque is compared with that of Kallmrgah