Mosque by David Macaulay

Mosque by David Macaulay

Author:David Macaulay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (www.hmhco.com)


By December 25, the tops of most of the piers and walls stood temporarily tied together by a network of wooden centerings over which the supporting arches for the semidomes would soon be assembled.

While the prayer hall grew steadily within its man-made forest of scaffolding, the slender minaret, still completely unencumbered by such trappings, was beginning to pull away. Its builders—a group of highly skilled workers who specialized in such construction and traveled together from one site to another—took great care in fitting and clamping one stone to the next. The spiral staircase itself was constructed of flat, wedge-shaped steps piled one on top of the other. The narrow end of each wedge was cut into a cylindrical shape. As the staircase rose, these stacked cylinders created a continuous central core. The wide end of each step was set into the wall, further strengthening the tower.



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