Qutb Complex. Alai Darwaza.

Work Information
Creator: Alauddin Khalji ((r.1296 - 1316))
Date: 1190-1311
Vendor: Veritas Imaging

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Ver-04172
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Description: Domed south portal to Quwwat al-Islam Mosque enclosure. View from south-west, tomb of Imam Zanin to east of portal. All on raised platform.
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Image Copyrights: © M. Stanley-Harris
Ver-04173
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Description: Domed south portal to Quwwat al-Islam Mosque enclosure. Close view from south-west, tomb of Imam Zanin to east of portal.
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Image Copyrights: © M. Stanley-Harris
Ver-04174
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Description: South facade. Square plan, two levels of faåàade dåâcor, laterally symmetrical. Topped by wide, shallow dome. Full height arched entrance.
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Image Copyrights: © M. Stanley-Harris
Ver-04175
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Description: South facade. Entrance. Detail, arch within alfiz. True arch construction, pointed and slightly horseshoe shape, fringe of lotus buds. Outlined by two bands, white marble and red sandtone, with callig
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Ver-04176
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Description: South facade. Entrance, Detail, arch underside or soffit, with patterns of intersecting triangles forming a star, inscribed within a circle.
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Ver-04177
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Description: South facade. Entrance. Detail, two engaged colonettes, (either side)
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Ver-04178
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Description: South facade. Entrance. Detail, inner side panels of red sandstone, carved with an intertwining arabesque motif, forming a circular repeat pattern.
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Ver-04179
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Description: South facade. Lower level, flanking entrance arch. Two arched window openings filled with marble jali screens, and surrounded with panels of elaborate carvings.
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Ver-04180
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Description: South facade. Upper level, flanking entrance arch. Facing comprising alternating bands of red sandstone and white marble, arranged as concentric rectangles around small niches.
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Ver-04181
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Description: West facade. Entrance arch inner side panels, and platform. Bands of red sandstone carvings of vegetal motifs. White marble detailing.
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Ver-04182
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Description: Platform base. Facing comprising bands of red sandstone carved with vegetal and geometric motifs.
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Ver-04183
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Description: Platform base. Detail, section located below colonettes.
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Ver-04184
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Description: North faåàade. Faces onto the mosque cloister extension south, by Alauddin. Central round archway, flanked either side by pointed arch openings.
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Ver-04185
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Description: Interior. View of a corner with deep, arched alcoves corresponding with outer windows. Situated above is a corner squinch arch to transition the square plan to base for supporting the dome.
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Ver-04186
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Description: Interior. View up into dome.
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Ver-04187
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Description: nterior. View up into squinch arch and undersides of arches.
Vendor: Veritas Imaging
Image Copyrights: © M. Stanley-Harris