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Dick Osseman | all galleries >> Amasya Turkey >> The Beyazit II mosque complex in Amasya > Amasya june 2011 7249.jpg
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21-JUN-2011

Amasya june 2011 7249.jpg

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Left side of the entrance.

Muqarnas is a stalactite-like decoration initiated in Anatolia by the Seljuk (in the 11th – 12th century). They imported it from Iran. Later on it continued to be used in the late-Seljuk architecture of the Beyliks (14th century) and by the Ottomans up to the 19th century.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.

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