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Turkish triangle

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use in Seljuq architecture

  • Al-Ḥākim Mosque
    In Islamic arts: Architecture in Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia

    …the new pendentive known as Turkish triangle (a transformation of the curved space of the traditional pendentive into a fanlike set of long and narrow triangles built at an angle from each other) were all used by Anatolian builders, thereby initiating the great development of vault construction in Ottoman architecture…

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