In architecture, a semi-dome (or half-dome) is a half dome that covers a semi-circular area in a building. Semi-domes are a common feature of apses in...

onion dome. parachute dome, see umbrella dome. pendentive dome. pumpkin dome, see umbrella dome. sail dome, sail vault. saucer dome. semi dome, see half...

main dome and eastern semi-dome. According to the Chronicle of John Malalas, during a subsequent earthquake on 7 May 558, the eastern semi-dome collapsed...

The mosque has a classical Ottoman layout with a central dome surrounded by four semi-domes over the prayer hall. It is fronted by a large courtyard and...

apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an exedra. In Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic Christian...

produced in Constantinople. The icon, traditionally half-length when in a semi-dome, which became adopted for panel icons also, depicts Christ fully frontal...

monumental mosque buildings focused around a high central dome with a varying number of semi-domes. The most important architect of the classical period is...

experimented with different combinations of conventional elements including domes, semi-domes, and arcaded porticos. Successful architects such as Sinan demonstrated...

decorative panels and superimposed by three other arched openings crowned by a semi-dome. The total height of the Gate above the pavement is 176  ft. A Persian...

Pantocrator figure first became half-length because large versions filled the semi-dome of the apse of many, if not most, decorated churches. A full-length figure...

committee’s examination concluded that the central dome, along with the surrounding semi-domes and smaller domes, needed to be dismantled and rebuilt. A framework...

Mosque had one central dome supported by a single semi-dome of the same diameter on the qibla side and suspended on four arches. its dome was 26 meter in diameter...

spaces. Domes were introduced in a number of Roman building types such as temples, thermae, palaces, mausolea and later also churches. Semi-domes also became...

the central dome is flanked by semi-domes both in front and behind, covering the main central space, while a row of smaller and lower domes covers each...

semicircular architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's façade or free-standing. The original...

from earlier examples often in mosaic, had, as its focal point in the semi-dome of the apse, Christ in Majesty or Christ the Redeemer enthroned within...

boasted that its dome surpassed that of the Hagia Sophia for the first time. Schematic drawing of a pendentive dome Central dome and semi-domes of the Hagia...

Christ Pantocrator, customarily located in the central dome over the altar, was placed in the semi-dome of the apse. Below, interspersed with three windows...

variations on the domes, surrounding them in different ways with semi-domes, piers, screen walls and different sets of galleries. His domes and arches are...

another fire in 1893, was again decorated with miniature arcades, while its semi-dome was filled with coffering similar to Roman architecture. Finbarr Barry...

rectangular outline of the ground level to the near semi-circle shape in level of the semi-dome. This area houses central architectural elements with...

situ are tripartite squinches used as transitional elements for domes and semi-domes. These examples include the Arab-Ata Mausoleum (977–978) in Tim (near...

Pointed arch Squinch Vaulting Roofs Dome (Arabic dome / Onion dome / Persian dome / South Asian dome) Semi-dome Tajug Chhajja (eaves) Religious objects...

symbolic meaning of the dome has developed over millennia. Although the precise origins are unknown, a mortuary tradition of domes existed across the ancient...

looking towards the mihrab The mosque's central dome and semi-domes Closer view of the central dome Behind the mosque is a small garden, containing the...

large central dome supported on four pendentives and buttressed on each side by a lower semi-dome over an apse. Beneath each semi-dome is a gallery supported...

Domes were a characteristic element of the architecture of Ancient Rome and of its medieval continuation, the Byzantine Empire. They had widespread influence...

a "trilobed" profile and groin vaulting – typically a semi-dome above two other quarter-domes that resembled squinches – became the main theme. Some...

the Virgin Mary, surrounded by saints, takes the centre of the apse semi-dome composition, with a beardless Christ in Majesty at the centre of the arch...

structure certainly had one dome, and likely a second for symmetry. The original mihrab, uncovered in 1933, has a semi-dome above it with a marble column...