MOORISH ARCHITECTURE

'Moorish architecture' is a term used to describe the Islamic architecture of North Africa and parts of Spain and Portugal where the Moors were dominant from 711-1492. The best surviving examples are La Mezquita in Cordoba and the Alhambra palace (mainly1338-1390^[1]), and also the Giralda in 1184.^[2]

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See also

★ Moorish Revival

★ Mudéjar

★ Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon

Notes

1. Curl p.502
2. Pevsner - The penguin dictionary of architecture

Reference

★ A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, , James Stevens, Curl, Oxford University Press, , ISBN 0-19-860678-8