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Title: Macedonia, a plea for the primitive
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Goff, A Fawcett, Hugh Alderson
Subjects: Macedonia -- Description and travel Macedonia
Publisher: London : John Lane New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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simplicity,Salonika and Seres afford one or two examplesof artistic designs. A many-domed roof, animposing frontage of lofty arches, curiously orna-mented in Turkish characters and an illuminatedtext, surmounted by a bas-relief moulding instalactite pattern, distinguish the exterior fromthe more common type of mosque. Inside, how-ever, there is less ornamentation. Large hand-made carpets of rich soft material which coverthe floor, one or two Turkish inscriptions whichadorn the walls, and the alcove or Mirah whichfaces the direction of Mecca, complete the interior.The ceiling is sometimes painted sky-blue, withstars, to represent the firmament, but the wallsare left untouched. The tout ensemble, in fact,is such as to recall the nudity and severitybegotten of the Arabian desert. The clear bluesky overhead, the soft yielding sand, the lack ofgaudy colouring, the absence of applied or pictorialornament which arrest the gaze and distract thethoughts, the scant trace of the hand of man—^a
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TURKISH .MOSQUE, SALONICA THE TURKISH MOSQUE 197 silent, sun-bathed trackless space wherein manis, indeed, alone with God—are all exemplifiedin the interior of a Turkish mosque. The minaret, as its derivation (Arabic : mandrat=ndra, to shine; nar = fire) denotes, resemblesa lighthouse in outline and, during the feast ofRamadan, in all Mohammedan countries, they areilluminated so that the word is particularlyapposite. Varying in height from twenty feet inthe villages to about one hundred feet in Salonika,built of rough stone and usually attached to themosque, the long circular column encloses a stonespiral staircase which leads to the gallery from whichthe muezzin or priest, at sunrise and sundown,calls the faithful to prayer. Upwards from thegallery, the tower is continued in a more narrowcircumference for eight or ten feet to a leaden orzinc cone which is surmounted by the emblem ofIslam—the crescent. As with the mosques, theminarets of Macedonia are simple in design and,in the m

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