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Laura Westlake Art History Extra Credit There are a lot of amazing sacred buildings throughout our historical times, a lot of these amazing architectural building's, most of these amazing buildings are , churches, places of worship that were built to reflect the people who believed to the different religions to the god's, goddess, figure's of worship they believed in enough to represent these sacred architectural places for other followers and for places of worship even today . I'll be telling you about Dome of the Rock and Salisbury Cathedral and what makes them sacred building’s, the time periods, the figure's of worship that inspired these amazing architecture historical building's. The first sacred building I'll be telling you about …show more content…

Some of the Dome of the Rock decorative and symbolic significance include the stunning Golden dome, the dome was originally made if gold, but now is covered with aluminum and covered with gold leaf, the dome itself is topped by a full moon decoration which is familiar to the crescent moon symbol of Islam, which is set where you can look through so you would be looking always straight towards Mecca . The Dome of the Rock also contains multicolored Turkish titles that adorns the shrine's exterior that are exact copies of the titles added in 1545 have now been replaced due to damage, there are also Arabic inscription around the octagonal part of the Dome of the Rock there are verses from the Qur'an, in interior of the golden dome there's elaborate floral decorations in red and gold as well as various inscriptions. There are mosaics in the interior that have both realistic and stylized representations of vegetation and other themes, these mosaics evoke an exotic garden, known to be the gardens of Paradise. Rich jewelry also is depicted which includes breastplates, necklaces. and a Persian crown which is gathered at the base, there are more founding inscription a 240 meter long line of Kufic script that runs along the both sides of the Dome of the Rock, on the outer side

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