Muqarnass (and its collection: Muqarnasat) are elements of Islamic architecture characteristic of it. [1][ A single muqarnas, if taken separated from its collection, resembles a small mihrab, or a longitudinal part of it. It has many types and shapes, and is used only as a convergence crowded with rows of studied distribution and composition, adjacent to transcendent, even so that each group of muqarnas looks like beehouses or witness discs. Its cells converge and combine its elements with harmonious lines and blocks, sporty in design, very precise, performing a specific architectural function, and an aesthetic decorative role that transcends all borders
Moqarnas cover concave areas and the confluence of sharp surfaces ends in the corners between the ceiling and walls and under balconies in minarets and the heads of pulpit entrances. It also eliminashape. It particularly dominates the corner apse, the sky of the domes and its external bowls.
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