Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

* In John Christopher's 1967-68 trilogy of novels The Tripods, an alien race known as " the Masters " live in three huge, domed arcologies built on Earth to use as a base from which to colonise the planet.

The current name was adopted three years later when they moved into the Astrodome, the world's first domed sports stadium.

Gathmann was very interested in astronomy and had three observatories built in the Chicago area during the 1880s, one of which was a domed observatory tower which he had installed on the side of his mansion on Lincoln Avenue.

" The lateral pavilions of the garden facade project only slightly, but are three bays wide with traditional tall slate roofs like those on the entrance front, and effectively balance the central domed salon.

During the Reconquista, the Kingdom of León in northern Spain built three churches famous for their domed crossing towers, called " cimborios ", as it acquired new territories.

With their move to TCF Bank Stadium, only three NCAA Division I FBS football programs now play indoors ( Idaho, Syracuse and Tulane ; the former two play at on-campus domed stadiums while the third shares the Mercedes-Benz Superdome with the New Orleans Saints ).

Most species lay two or three white eggs in a covered location, whether it be a burrow, a hole in a tree, or a domed nest.

The chapel had a gallery around three sides, and the centre of the ceiling was domed and supported by two tuscan columns.

A boat-based water ride was added to the extreme western end of the island, along with a smaller exhibition center consisting of three concrete silo-like buildings connected by overhead walkways, and a smaller domed movie theatre.

The original plans for a large domed building with two subsidiary side buildings, housing all three branches of government-legislative, executive and judicial-gave rise to the plural in the official title still used today.

He finds a domed table in the center of the room ; inside are three disembodied brains that glow from within.

The building has survived to this day in its original structure of a three-aisled, cruciform domed basilica with three pentagonal apses.

10. The minarets are divided by three projecting galleries and are surmounted by open twelve-sided domed pavilions.

In the middle of the gardens is the Bara Gumbad (" Big Dome "), it consists of a large rubble-construct dome, it is not a tomb but a gateway to an attached a three domed masjid ( mosque ), both built in 1494 during the reign of Sikander Lodi, there is also a residence surrounding a central courtyard, where the remains of a water tank can be seen.

Construction of the Toronto FC Academy and Training Facility began in May 2011, and will include three grass fields, one domed turf field and field house.

According to Benson, the poisoned food came from several Martian farms, but was exported through Wingrad City, one of three domed human settlements on Mars ; whereas Makian and several other farm owners have been offered ridiculously small sums of money for their farms, apparently without connection to the poisonings.

The exterior was re-clad in yellow brick and a three bay recessed Ionic portico added on the north front, a tetrastyle Ionic portico was added on the south front, within he added the octagonal domed lobby, also by Holland are the ground floor rooms on the south front library ( Wedgwood room ), saloon and drawing room, and on the east front the dining room, all in the Adam style.

The ensemble comprises three groups of structures: lower, middle and upper connected by four-arched domed passages locally called chartak.

Originally designed as four domed rooms to serve as a hospice for wandering dervishes, the wings were integrated into the prayer hall in the sixteenth century and now consist of three consecutive rooms separated by archways.

Remnants of a mosque ( Mughal period, 1176 AH ) at Nayarhat ( Rajarhat ), remnants of a mosque near Patweshwari Bazar ( Mughal period ), three domed mosque ( Mughal period ) at village Majider Par of Thanahat Union ( Bhurangamari ), Arabic inscription of a mosque ( Hussain Shahi period, now preserved at the Rajshahi Barendra Museum ), Joymoni Zamindar Bari, Naodanga Zamindar Bari and Mandir ( Phulbari ), Pangeshwari Mandir and remnants of the Rajbari ( Rajarhat ), image of Kali at Dasherhat, images of Mangal Chandi, Kamakkha Devi, Laksmi and Sattanarayan in front of the Bhetarbandh Zamindar Bari, Kali Siddheshwari Mandir ( Ulipur ), two canons of Panga Kingdom ( preserved at the BDR Gate )..

The room was styled in the 1770s " Pompeiian " style with mirrored walls and a domed ceiling and there are only three such rooms left in Britain.

This astronomical observatory contains three domed telescopes ; the largest is the Gueymard Research Telescope, which has an aperture of 36 ".

From the corners of the facade, two 14-level minarets rise, with three little domed cutouts on each level and onion domes on top.

However, he stopped drinking and began to attend the mosque about three months before he left his family.

Medina is home to the three oldest mosques in Islam, namely Al-Masjid an-Nabawi ( The Prophet's Mosque ), Masjid Quba ' or Quba Mosque ( the first mosque in Islam's history ), and Masjid al-Qiblatain ( The Mosque of the Two Qiblahs-the mosque where the direction of Muslim prayer, or qiblah, was switched from Jerusalem to Mecca ).

All three judges accepted that under the mosque is a Hindu temple.

Some of the buildings constructed by the Karakhanids still survive today-for example the Kalyan minaret built by Mohammad Aslan Khan beside the main mosque in Bukhara, and three mausolea in Uzgend.

The mihrab of the al-Aqsa Mosque was repaired and in 1217, al-Mu ' azzam Isa built the northern porch of the mosque with three gates.

There were three olive presses, a mosque and a church.

* Pishtaq is the formal gateway to the iwan, usually the main prayer hall of a mosque, a vaulted hall or space, walled on three sides, with one end entirely open ; a Persian term for a portal projecting from the facade of a building, usually decorated with calligraphy bands, glazed tilework, and geometric designs.

In February 2006, three Al Arabiya reporters were abducted and murdered while covering the aftermath of the bombing of a mosque in Samarra, Iraq.

During the reign of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Majid I ( 1839 – 1861 ), the mosque was entirely remodeled with the exception of Muhammad's Tomb, the three mihrabs, the minbar and the Suleymaniyya minaret.

In February 1915, Iyasu travelled to Harar with Abdullahi Tsadeq, who had become his constant companion, and went to the largest mosque of the city for a three hour service.

This airport consists of 4 passenger terminals ( only three of which are in use ) with eight aero-bridges each, a mosque, covered and uncovered parking for 11, 600 vehicles, a Royal Terminal ( for VIP's and Saudi Royal family use ), a central control tower ( one of the world's tallest ), and two parallel runways, which are each long.

Water was supplied to the fortress from a large cistern underneath the mosque and distributed through three wall-fountains, of which only one has remained.

This Iskele Mosque ( or Jetty mosque ) already shows several hallmarks of Sinan's mature style: a spacious, high-vaulted basement, slender minarets, single-domed baldacchino, flanked by three semi-domes ending in three exedrae and a broad double portico.

What was almost certainly novel in the rebuilt mosque was the symmetric arrangement of three large towers in the qibla wall.

Foundations for the church were laid by the architect Egas starting from 1518 to 1523 atop the site of the city's main mosque ; by 1529, Egas was replaced by Diego de Siloé who labored for nearly four decades on the structure from ground to cornice, planning the triforium and five naves instead of the usual three.

The programme of construction included an Arts college, a Dar-ul-Uloom, and hostel, a high school and three hostels, a mosque, and residences for the principal and headmaster.

The Al-Rahma Mosque is currently the largest of Liverpool's three mosques, followed by the Penny Lane mosque and a proposed mosque and Muslim centre on the former Anfield Community Comprehensive School site.

1. The courtyard of the mosque can be reached from the east, north and south by three flights of steps, all built of red sandstone.

14. The mosque stands on a platform of about five feet ( 1. 5 m ) from the pavement of the terrace, and three flight of steps lead to the interior of the mosque from the east, north, and the south.

15. The floor of the mosque is covered with white and black marble ornamented to imitate the Muslim prayer mat ; a thin black marble border is marked for the worshippers, which is three feet long and 1 ½ feet wide.

On September 15, 2010, two Taiwanese tourists were injured after gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a bus parked near gate number three of the mosque.