Islamic architecture is starts to get popular in the Middle East as well as Spain, Asia, and other around the seventeenth century. The Muslim used this art to in many things, like the religion school, tombs, and mostly in the mosques. Mosque or as they call it in Arabic “Masjid”, is where the Muslim worship god. The great mosque of Cordoba is a great example of the Islamic Architecture. All Mosques are consisting of large columned hall whose square or rectangular shape derives from the simple urban houses made out of sun-dried bricks. All Muslim when they pray, they
stand toghther shoulder to shoulder toward Mecca determined by the Mihrab. Minbar is a platform under the Mihrab to read Quran and also for the Muezzin to call for prays.
The Christianity religion was growing really fast in the cities of Roman, around the beginning of the fourth century. The church is where the Christian’s people worship god. Basilica is a really god example of the beautiful Christianity architecture. The world Basilica is came from the Greek term royal house, but in the Gothic it’s a church in the medieval, and it consists of high and large wall build, with a long hall spaces for the audiences and transaction for the public gathering. In the side of the audiences space we can see a long rows of columns called Colonnade, used to great aisle inside the church and add architectural strength that allowed to build a second story above the aisle center. To great a sense of openness, the architecture designed the central aisle to be wider than those on the side. Apse in the church is the section that covered by a dome and it located at the meddle end of the building. The apse it usually one or two steps above the floor like a platform called a dais.
Stupa is one of the most traditional architecture buildings that used for worship in the Buddhist religion. The Stupa is usually located in India and Sri Lanks, and it played a big role for influence on the later designs. Stupa is a large mound of the earth shaped as a bell encased by bricks or stone, set on top of circular base forming mandala.