Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
5. single built works (built environment)
6. [single built works by specific type]
7. [single built works by function]
8. ceremonial structures
9. religious structures
10. religious buildings

Narrower term/s

• [mosques by form][+]
  • four-iwan mosques
  • hypostyle mosques
• [mosques by function][+]
  • jamis
  • masjids

Anotations

Scope note:

Muslim places of worship. Public mosques consist of an area reserved for communal prayers, frequently in a domed building with a minaret, and with a niche (mihrab) or other structure indicating the direction of Mecca. There may also be a platform for preaching (minbar), and an adjacent courtyard in which water is provided for the obligatory ablutions before prayer. Since representations of the human form are forbidden, decoration is geometric or based on Arabic calligraphy.