the Christian Godhead as one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
What is Holy Trinity
100
a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer
What is minarets
100
bands or portions of other motifs are looped, braided, and knotted in complex geometric patterns, often to fill a space
What is interlace pattern
100
a pilgrim's journey
What is pilgrimage
200
an arched aperture or window, especially one in a domed ceiling
What is lunettes
200
a connoisseur of icons or images
What is iconophile
200
Having a roof or ceiling supported by rows of columns
What is Hypostyle hall
200
a room set apart for writing, especially one in a monastery where manuscripts were copied
What is scriptorium
200
a section of wall between two buttresses or columns, especially in the nave of a church
What is bay
300
a luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint
What is ninbus
300
the passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping
What is lamentation
300
a short flight of steps used as a platform by a preacher in a mosque
What is minbar
300
a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows
What is monastery
300
a buttress slanting from a separate pier, typically forming an arch with the wall it supports
What is flying buttresses
400
the central part of a church building, intended to accommodate most of the congregation. In traditional Western churches it is rectangular, separated from the chancel by a step or rail, and from adjacent aisles by pillars
What is nave
400
a straight or arched structure across an interior angle of a square tower to carry a superstructure such as a dome
What is squinches
400
a niche in the wall of a mosque, at the point nearest to Mecca, toward which the congregation faces to pray
What is mihrab
400
is a political theory in which the head of state, notably the Emperor ('Caesar', by extension an 'equal' King), is also the supreme head of the church ('papa', pope or analogous religious leader)
What is caesaropapism
400
Light that comes from the clerestorys
What is lux nova
500
an antechamber, porch, or distinct area at the western entrance of some early Christian churches, separated off by a railing and used by catechumens, penitents, etc.
What is narthex
500
a curved triangle of vaulting formed by the intersection of a dome with its supporting arches
What is pendentives
500
Enclosure in a mosque, situated near the mihrab and minbar, defined by a metal or timber screen, used by a ruler for purposes of protection and status
What is maqsura
500
method of metal casting in which a molten metal is poured into a mold that has been created by means of a wax model. Once the mold is made, the wax model is melted and drained away
What is lost wax casting
500
a part of a portal, accompanied by lintel and trumeau