Examples of hypostyle hall in the following topics:
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- The columns of its Hypostyle Hall imitate lotus plants and contain elaborate sunken relief.
- Thirty-nine out of the 48 columns still stand in the hypostyle hall, and part of the gold-and-blue decorated ceiling has also been preserved.
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- It consists of multiple halls, corridors, a wide terrace, and a symmetrical double stairway providing access to the terrace, decorated with reliefs depicting scenes from nature and daily life.
- The largest hall in the complex is the audience hall of Apadana.
- This hypostyle hall has a total of 36 fluted columns with capitals sculpted into unique forms.
- This attention to diversity also appears in the reliefs from the hall of Apadana, in which leaders and dignitaries from various provinces appear in regional fashions beneath a frieze punctuated by male lamassus adopted from previous Mesopotamian cultures.
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- Founded in 670, it contains all of the architectural features that distinguish early mosques: a minaret, a large courtyard surrounded by porticos, and a hypostyle prayer hall.
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- The western part of the temple contains the Kondō (sanctuary hall) and the temple's five-story pagoda.
- The Tō-in area holds the octagonal Yumedono Hall (also known as the Hall of Dreams) and sits 122 meters east of the Sai-in area.
- The complex also contains monk's quarters, lecture halls, libraries, and dining halls.
- One of the most notable is its layout: while most Japanese temples of the period were arranged like their Chinese and Korean prototypes—with the main gate, a pagoda, the main hall, and the lecture hall on a straight line—the reconstructed Hōryū-ji breaks from those patterns by arranging the Kondō (main hall) and pagoda side by side in the courtyard.
- The hall acquired its present-day common name in the later Heian period, after a legend that says a Buddha arrived as Prince Shōtoku and meditated in a hall that existed here.
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- Architecture from the Han Dynasty that has survived until today include ruins of brick and rammed earth walls (including above-ground city walls and underground tomb walls), rammed earth platforms for terraced altars and halls, funerary stone or brick pillar-gates, and scattered ceramic roof tiles that once adorned timber halls.
- Timber was the chief building material in Han Dynasty architecture, used for grand palace halls, multi-story towers, multi-story residential halls, and humble abodes.
- Han homes had a courtyard area (some had multiple courtyards), with halls that were slightly elevated and connected by stairways.
- Multi-story buildings included the main colonnaded residence halls built around the courtyards as well as watchtowers.
- Describe the building materials, layout, and architectural characteristics of Han palace halls, towers, tombs, and other abodes.
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- There are also many hallenkirke (or hall churches), which have no clerestorey windows.
- Examples are the Gothic Town Hall (13th century) at Stralsund, Bremen Town Hall (1410), and the (reconstructed) city hall of Munster (originally from 1350).
- Stralsund City Hall and St.
- Hall churches are another example of German Gothic architecture that is distinct from French Gothic.
- Hall churches are a distinctively German interpretation of the Gothic style.
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- They created a new form of Buddha hall, known as the Amida hall.
- The Hō-ō-dō (Phoenix Hall, completed in 1053) of the Byōdō-in, a temple in Uji to the southeast of Kyoto, is one of the finest examples of Fujiwara Amida halls.
- A fine example of this type of image is found in the Phoenix Hall, whose walls are decorated with small relief carvings.
- The Phoenix Hall of the Byōdō-in is an exampla of Fujiwara Amida halls.
- Describe the Amida hall and images of the Amida Buddha portrayed in the art of Pure Land Buddhism.
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- Appropriately, the main Buddha hall, or Daibutsuden, was enshrined with the Rushana Buddha, a 16.2-meter (53-foot) Buddha completed in 752 that represents the essence of Buddhahood, just as the Tōdaiji represented the center for imperially-sponsored Buddhism and its dissemination throughout Japan.
- Only a few fragments of the original statue survive, and the present hall and central Buddha are reconstructions from the Edo period.
- Clustered around the Daibutsuden on a gently sloping hillside are a number of secondary halls: the Hokke-dō (Lotus Sutra Hall), with its principal image; the Fukukenjaku Kannon (the most popular bodhisattva), crafted of dry lacquer (cloth dipped in lacquer and shaped over a wooden armature); the Kaidanin (Ordination Hall) with its magnificent clay statues of the Four Guardian Kings; and the storehouse, called the Shōsōin.
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- A small Hindu temple typically consists of an inner sanctum, a congregation hall, and sometimes an antechamber or porch .
- The innermost heart of this type of temple is a sanctum where a deity (usually cast in fixed stone) is present, followed by a large hall where lay worshipers can stand and obtain "Darśana," or divine audience.
- In this type of temple, there may or may not be a number of additional corridors and halls, in addition to these aforementioned worship rooms.
- A small Hindu temple consists of an inner sanctum, a congregation hall, and sometimes an antechamber and porch.
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- A shoin is a type of audience hall in Japanese architecture that was developed during the Muromachi period and refined during the Momoyama period.
- A shoin (書, drawing room or study) is a type of audience hall in Japanese architecture that was developed during the Muromachi period.