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Minarets and mosques

57 buildings in 5 models. Minarets and mosques built from measured exemplars, each part a closed solid with its IFC class.

Minaret catalogue

Every minaret of the world Calq builds: 25 traditions from the Umayyad square tower and the Malwiya to the Mamluk tiered tower, the Ottoman pencil, the Seljuk and Timurid shafts, the Mughal chhatri, the Koutoubia and the Giralda, the mud towers of Djenne and the modern concrete shaft, each with its balconies, corbels, cap and finial; then one tower in every cap.

34 buildings · Open this model in Calq

Mosque catalogue: the Levant, Mesopotamia and Egypt

The Umayyad Great Mosque, the Abbasid hypostyle of Samarra, the Fatimid and the Mamluk mosques of Cairo, each on a hall of its own with its minarets, its mihrab, its portal, its merlons and its dome - the facade engine's mosque lineages, built as they are applied.

4 buildings · Open this model in Calq

Mosque catalogue: Anatolia, Persia, Central and South Asia

The Ottoman imperial and town mosques, the Seljuk, Timurid and Safavid mosques, the Mughal and the Deccani, each on a hall of its own with its minarets, its mihrab, its portal and its domes.

7 buildings · Open this model in Calq

Mosque catalogue: Arabia and the Gulf

The Yemeni, the Hejazi (the two Holy Mosques' manner), the Gulf grand mosque and the Najdi mud mosque, each on a hall of its own.

4 buildings · Open this model in Calq

Mosque catalogue: the Maghreb, al-Andalus, Africa, the East and today

The Maghrebi and Andalusi mosques, Kairouan, the Sahelian mud mosque, the Swahili coral mosque, the Javanese and Chinese mosques and the modern mosque, each on a hall of its own.

8 buildings · Open this model in Calq

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