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Moorish architecture is a style within Islamic architecture which developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia (part of the Maghreb ). [1] [2] Scholarly references on Islamic architecture often refer to this architectural tradition in terms such as ...
Moorish Revival architecture. Famed Viječnica in Sarajevo, 1894, building of the National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism.
Neo-Mudéjar. Neo-Mudéjar is a type of Moorish Revival architecture practised in the Iberian Peninsula and to a far lesser extent in Ibero-America. This architectural movement emerged as a revival of Mudéjar style. It was an architectural trend of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that began in Madrid and Barcelona and quickly spread to ...
Islamic architecture. Top: arches of the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba ( Spain ); centre: the Jameh Mosque in Isfahan ( Iran ); bottom: interior side view of the main dome of the Selimiye Mosque ( Edirne, Turkey) Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam.
: 71 : 404 The era of the Almoravids and their successor dynasties (such as the Almohads, the Marinids, and the Nasrids) was a formative period of Moroccan architecture and of wider Moorish architecture during which the model of the riad garden was perfected and established as a standard feature of interior secular or palace architecture in the ...
These traditions of Moorish art and architecture were continued in Morocco (and the wider Maghreb) well after the end of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula. Amazigh (Berber) Interior of the Kasbah Amridil in Skoura, a restored example of an oasis kasbah, originally built in the 17th century
The Medinah Temple is a large Moorish Revival building in Chicago built by Shriners architects Huehl & Schmid in 1912. It is located on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois at 600 N. Wabash Avenue, extending from Ohio Street to Ontario Street. In 2022, it was announced that the site will temporarily house Bally's Chicago casino while the $1 ...
The National and University Library (Vijecnica) is the most famous example of Moorish Revival architectural language using decorations and pointed arches while still integrating other formal elements into the design. In 1891, Karel Pařík worked on another major building in the pseudo-Moorish style – The Municipal Hall.