As usual in Al-Islam, it is a hypaethral building with a spacious central area, called Al-Sahn, Al-Hosh, Al-Haswah, or Al-Ramlah,7 surrounded by a peristyle with numerous rows of pillars like the colonnades of an Italian cloister. ❋ Unknown (2003)
As far as I could discover, the tradition has no foundation, and in old times there was no garden in the hypaethral court. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Equally irregular are the Riwaks, or porches, surrounding the hypaethral court. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The stranger stands awe-struck before walls high towering without a single break, a hypaethral court severe in masculine beauty, a gateway that might suit the palace of the Titans, and a lofty minaret of massive grandeur. ❋ Unknown (2003)
From time immemorial, in hot and rainy lands, a hypaethral court, either round or square, surrounded by a covered portico, was used for the double purpose of church and mart, — a place where God and Mammon were worshipped turn by turn. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The four Riwaks, or porches, of the Madinah Mosque open upon a hypaethral court of parallelogramic shape. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The exposed foundations of the eastern and western walls, where the torrent has washed away the northern enceinte, show that, after the fashion of ancient Egypt, sandstone slabs have been laid underground, the calcaire being reserved for the hypaethral part. ❋ Unknown (2003)
First there is the temple in antis, or [Greek: naos en parastasin] as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honour of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)
The hypaethral is decastyle in both front and rear porticoes. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)
The smoke of thy altar-fires, the steam of thy incense, and the odors of thy sanctity rise from every hypaethral shrine in Rome. ❋ Various (N/A)
But they must all be brought together in line before the grand portals of Nature's hypaethral temple will open to her chosen student. ❋ Various (N/A)
If another desires to amass historical and archaeological facts, measurements of hypaethral temples, modes of burial, folk-lore, fortification, God forbid that I should throw cold water on the quest. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
I have called this imaginary temple hypaethral, because the master left nine openings in the flattened surface of the central vault. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
Perhaps, therefore, they were hypaethral, like the temples of the Greeks. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)
Nor did the Romans construct hypaethral temples, or uncovered, with internal columns, like the Greeks. ❋ John Lord (1852)
We have done with those hypaethral temples, that were open above to the heavens, but we can have attics and skylights to them. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)
The next smaller sitting-rooms by the side of the main corridor we may assign to the officers and scribes, in this spacious hypaethral hall -- the one with the Muses -- Hadrian may give audience and the guests may assemble there whom he may admit to eat at his table in this broad peristyle. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)
