With a combination of columns and arches the hypostyle hall became one of the two main types of mosque construction.
Hypostyle hall floor plan.
The main hall of the mosque was used for a variety of purposes.
The hypostyle plan s characteristic forest of columns was used in different mosques to great effect.
The building is most notable for its arcaded hypostyle hall with 856 columns of jasper onyx marble.
Hypostyle hall in architecture interior space whose roof rests on pillars or columns.
Floor plan diagram and artist rendering of the great hypostyle hall at karnak in egypt.
It served as a central prayer hall for personal devotion the five daily muslim prayers and the special friday prayers.
An example of this is the great hypostyle hall at karnak built some time between 1290 and 1224 bc.
The word means literally under pillars and the design allows for the construction of large spaces as in temples palaces or public buildings without the need for arches.
It was used extensively in ancient.
One of the finest examples of the hypostyle plan mosques is the great mosque of kairouan also called the mosque of uqba in the city of kairouan tunisia.
The great hypostyle hall at karnak was built as part of a large religious complex in egypt in thebes or present day luxor.
The building s floor plan is seen to be parallel to.