Editing Hypostyle (section)

===Mosques===
[[File:Great Mosque of Kairouan, prayer hall.jpg|thumb|Hypostyle prayer hall of the [[Mosque of Uqba|Great Mosque of Kairouan]], in Tunisia.]]
With a combination of columns and [[arch]]es, the hypostyle hall became one of the two main types of [[mosque]] construction. In many mosques, especially the early congregational mosques, the prayer hall has the hypostyle form.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IJrN8rDirxkC&dq=hypostyle+early+congregational+mosques&pg=PA265 Fred S. Kleiner, ''Gardner's art through the ages : the western perspective'', Cengage Learning, 2010, p. 265]</ref> One of the finest examples of the hypostyle-plan mosques is the [[Mosque of Uqba|Great Mosque of Kairouan]] (also called the Mosque of Uqba) in the city of [[Kairouan]], [[Tunisia]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IJrN8rDirxkC&dq=Gardner%27s+art+mosque+of+kairouan&pg=PA267 Fred S. Kleiner, ''Gardner's art through the ages : the western perspective'', p. 267]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612251/index.pdf
|title=The Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Anatolia: Mosque- and State-Building under Mongol Suzerainty
|author=Kenneth Hayes
|pages=18–19, 20 etc.
|quote=(pp 18-19) Early iterations of the Kaaba also had wooden columns. ... After this building succumbed to fire in the taking of the Haram, Ibn Zubayr ... placed three teak-wood columns in a single row. (p 20) The mosque at Kufa became so paradigmatic that later hypostyle mosques are generally known as Kufa- or Kufic-type mosques.
|publisher=Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
|date=2010
|access-date=27 February 2015
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