Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival

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s that were adopted by architects of

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and the

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in the wake of

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Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th century, part of a widening vocabulary of

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decorative ornament drawn from historical sources beyond familiar classical and Gothic modes. Neo-Moorish architecture drew on elements from classic

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and, as a result, from the wider

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In Europe

The " Moorish" garden structures built at Sheringham Hall, Norfolk, ca. 1812, were an unusual touch at the time, a parallel to

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, as a dream vision of fanciful whimsy, not meant to be taken seriously; however, as early as 1826, Edward Blore used Islamic arches, domes of various size and shapes and other details of Near Eastern Islamic architecture to great effect in his design for

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, a cultural setting that had already been penetrated by authentic Ottoman styles. By the mid-19th century, the style was adopted by the

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, who associated Moorish and

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architectural forms with the golden age of Jewry in medieval

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. It has also been argued that Jewish communities adopted this architecture (which in

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eyes was seen as stereotypical of "Islamic" or " Oriental" culture more broadly) for more complex reasons; mainly, as an affirmation or reclamation of the Middle Eastern or Semitic roots of their history and thus as a way of setting themselves apart from the surrounding Western or Christian society. This came at time when Jews were gaining more freedoms in some European societies and the construction of ostentatious synagogues was possible for the first time, thus provoking a search for a new distinct style of architecture. Historian John M. Efron of the University of California at Berkeley regards the popularity of Moorish revival architecture among builders of synagogues as a counterpoint to

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's ''Orientalism'', which criticizes European orientalism as inherently imperialist and racist, since the builders chose the style as an expression of admiration for the culture of the Muslim world. As a consequence, Moorish Revival spread around the globe as a preferred style of synagogue architecture for a long period until the early 20th century. In Spain, the country conceived as the place of origin of Moorish ornamentation, the interest in this sort of architecture fluctuated from province to province. The mainstream was called

Neo-Mudéjar Neo-Mudéjar is a type of Moorish Revival architecture practised in the Iberian Peninsula and to a far lesser extent in Ibero-America. This architectural movement emerged as a revival of Mudéjar style. It was an architectural trend of the late ...

. In

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, Antoni Gaudí's profound interest in

heritage governed the design of his early works, such as Casa Vicens or Astorga Palace. In Andalusia, the Neo-Mudéjar style gained belated popularity in connection with the

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and was epitomized by

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and Gran Teatro Falla in

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. In

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, the Neo-Mudéjar was a characteristic style of housing and public buildings at the turn of the century, while the 1920s return of interest to the style resulted in such buildings as

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and

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office. A Spanish nobleman built the Palazzo

Sammezzano Sammezzano, or the Castle of Sammezzano, is an Italian ''palazzo'' in Tuscany featuring Moorish Revival architectural style. It is located in Leccio, a hamlet of Reggello, in the Province of Florence. Description The original ''palazzo'' was ere ...

, one of Europe's largest and most elaborate Moorish Revival structures, in Tuscany between 1853 and 1889. Alhambra Frederiksberg 2

Although

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employed Moorish arcading among the exotic features of his furniture, shown at the 1902 exhibition at

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, by that time the Moorish Revival was very much on the wane almost everywhere. A notable exceptions were Imperial Russia, where the shell-encrusted Morozov House in Moscow (a stylisation of the

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), the Neo-Mameluk

Dulber The Dulber Palace (russian: Дворец Дюльбер) is a Moorish Revival palace designed by Nikolay Krasnov in Koreiz, near Yalta in Crimea. Also known as the Palace of Grand Duke Peter Nicolaievich of Russia, Dulber Palace (''dülber'' i ...

palace in

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, and the palace in Likani exemplified the continuing development of the style.

In the Balkans

Another exception was Bosnia, where, after its occupation by Austria-Hungary, the new authorities commissioned a range of Neo-Moorish structures. The aim was to promote Bosnian national identity while avoiding its association with either the

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or the growing pan-Slavic movement by creating an "

of European fantasy". This included application of ornamentations and other Moorish design strategies neither of which had much to do with prior architectural direction of indigenous Bosnian architecture. The central post office in

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, for example, follows distinct formal characteristics of design like clarity of form, symmetry, and proportion while the interior followed the same doctrine. The

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in Sarajevo is an example of Pseudo Moorish architectural language using decorations and pointed arches while still integrating other formal elements into the design.

In the United States

Yeshiva University Zysman Hall and Gottesmann Library

In the United States,

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's fanciful travel sketch, ''

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'' (1832), first brought Moorish Andalusia into readers' imaginations; one of the first neo-Moorish structures was

Iranistan Iranistan was a Moorish Revival mansion in Bridgeport, Connecticut commissioned by P. T. Barnum in 1848. It was designed by Bohemian-American architect Leopold Eidlitz. At this "beautiful country seat"

, a mansion of P. T. Barnum in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Constructed in 1848 and destroyed by fire ten years later, this architectural extravaganza "sprouted bulbous domes and horseshoe arches". In the 1860s, the style spread across America, with

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, the painter Frederic Edwin Church's house overlooking the Hudson River, Castle Garden in

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and Longwood in Natchez, Mississippi usually cited among the more prominent examples. After the American Civil War, Moorish or Turkish smoking rooms achieved some popularity. There were Moorish details in the interiors created for the

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residence on Fifth Avenue by

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. The 1914

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incorporates Turkish design features, as well as French, English, and Italian ones; the smoking room in particular has notable Moorish revival elements. In 1937, the

Corn Palace The Corn Palace, commonly advertised as The World's Only Corn Palace and the Mitchell Corn Palace, is a multi-purpose arena/facility located in Mitchell, South Dakota, United States. The Moorish Revival building is decorated with crop art; the mu ...

Mitchell, South Dakota Mitchell is a city in and the county seat of Davison County, South Dakota, Davison County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 15,660 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census making it the List of cities in South Dakota, sixth mos ...

added unusual minarets and Moorish domes, unusual because the polychrome decorations are made out of corn cobs of various colors assembled like mosaic tiles to create patterns. The 1891

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, whose minarets and Moorish domes are now the pride of the

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, was a particularly extravagant example of the style. Other schools with Moorish Revival buildings include David H. Zysman Hall at

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in New York City. George Washington Smith used the style in his design for the 1920s Isham Beach Estate in

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In India

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, built by Viqar-ul-Umra at

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Theaters

In the United States

Around the world

Synagogues

Europe

* Munich synagogue, by

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, 1832 was the earliest Moorish revival synagogue (destroyed on

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) * Semper Synagogue, by Gottfried Semper, Dresden, 1839–40 (destroyed on

) * Leopoldstädter Tempel, Vienna, Austria, 1853–58 (destroyed on

) *

Dohány Street Synagogue The Dohány Street Synagogue ( hu, Dohány utcai zsinagóga / nagy zsinagóga; he, בית הכנסת הגדול של בודפשט, ''Bet ha-Knesset ha-Gadol shel Budapesht''), also known as the ''Great Synagogue'' or ''Tabakgasse Synagogue'', ...

, Budapest, Hungary, 1854–1859 * Leipzig synagogue, 1855 (destroyed on

in 1938) * Glockengasse synagogue, Cologne, Germany, 1855–61 (destroyed on

) * New Synagogue by Eduard Knoblauch, Berlin, 1859–1866 * New Synagogue,

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, Poland, 1857–1860 * Tempel Synagogue, Cracow, Poland, 1860–62 * Cetate Synagogue, Timişoara, Romania, by Ignaz Schumann, 1864–65 * Choral Temple,

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, 1864–1866 *

Zagreb Synagogue The Zagreb Synagogue ( hr, Zagrebačka sinagoga) was the main place of worship for the Jews, Jewish community of Zagreb in modern-day Croatia. It was constructed in 1867 in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within the Austrian Empire, and was used u ...

, 1867 * The Great Synagogue of Stockholm, Sweden, by

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, 1867–1870 *

Synagogue of Besançon The Synagogue of Besançon is the principal Jewish place of worship in the city of Besançon, France. The building is located in the area of Battant, near the old center of the town. It was built in 1869 and was inaugurated on 18 November. Si ...

, France, 1867–1870 * Spanish Synagogue,

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, 1868 * Rumbach Street synagogue, Budapest, Hungary, 1872 * Czernowitz Synagogue,

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, Ukraine, 1873 * Great Synagogue of Florence, ''Tempio Maggiore'', Florence, Italy, 1874–82 * Princes Road Synagogue,

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, England, 1874 * Manchester Jewish Museum, built as a Sephardic synagogue,

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, England, 1874 * Vercelli Synagogue,

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, Italy, 1878 * Vrbové synagogue,

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, Slovakia, 1883 * Turin synagogue, Italy, 1884 * Great Synagogue in Pilsen, Pilsen, Bohemia, Czech Republic, 1888 * The Grand Choral Synagogue,

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, Russia, 1888 * Esztergom Synagogue, Hungary, 1888 *

Fabric New Synagogue in Timişoara The Fabric Synagogue is a Neolog Judaism, Neolog synagogue in the Fabric, Timișoara, Fabric district of Timișoara. The synagogue was called the New Synagogue because it replaced the old synagogue on Timocului Street. It was built between 1897 an ...

, Romania, by Lipot Baumhorn, 1889 * Rosenberg synagogue, Olesno, Poland, 1889 (destroyed on

in 1938) *

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synagogue, France, 1891 * Hollandse Synagoge, Antwerp, Belgium, 1893 * Second Luxembourg Synagogue,

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, 1894 *

Great Choral Synagogue (Kyiv) The Great Choral Synagogue of Kyiv, also known as the Podil Synagogue or the Rozenberg Synagogue, is the oldest synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is situated in Podil, a historic neighborhood of Kyiv, and is under the leadership of Rabbi Bleich. ...

, Ukraine, 1895 *

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synagogue, Czech Republic, 1895 * Olomouc Synagogue,

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, Czech Republic, 1897 (destroyed in 1938) * Prešov synagogue, Prešov, Slovakia, 1898 * Košice synagogue, Košice, Slovakia, 1899, interior of Rundbogenstil building *

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synagogue, Slovakia, 1886, rebuilt 1900 * Sarajevo Synagogue, 1902 * Karaite Kenesa,

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, 1902 * Jubilee Synagogue, Prague, Czech Republic, 1906 * Groningen Synagogue, Groningen, Netherlands, 1906 * Choral Synagogue, Minsk, Belarus, 1906 * Bet Israel Synagogue, Belgrade, 1908. * Sofia Synagogue, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1909 *

Galitska Synagogue The Galitska Synagogue is a synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is under the Leadership of the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, Rabbi Yakkov Bleich. History The Aesopian synagogue was built in 1909 in a Moorish Revival architecture, Moorish Revival style. ...

, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1909 * Uzhgorod Synagogue,

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, Ukraine, 1910 * Arabian House (Hotel Jadran)

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, North Macedonia, 1936–38

United States

Isaac M. Wise Temple The Isaac M. Wise Temple (formerly the Plum Street Temple) is the historic synagogue erected for Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise and his congregation in Cincinnati, Ohio. Wise was among the founders of American Reform Judaism. The temple building was de ...

, also known as the Plum Street Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865 * Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Philadelphia, 1866 (no longer standing) * ''Temple Emanu-El'' on Fifth Avenue at 43rd Street, Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York built in 1868, designed by

Leopold Eidlitz Leopold Eidlitz (March 10, 1823, Prague, Bohemia – March 22, 1908, New York City) was a prominent New York architect best known for his work on the New York State Capitol (Albany, New York, 1876–1881), as well as " Iranistan" (1848), P. T. B ...

, assisted by

Henry Fernbach Henry Fernbach (18291883) was an architect in New York City. Born in Breslau in Germany, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1848 or in 1855. Life Fernbach was a Prussian Jew,B'nai Sholom Temple B’nai Sholom Temple is a synagogue in Quincy, Illinois. It was built in 1870 in the Moorish Revival style. The original, 80 foot high, twin minaret-style towers were damaged by a tornado in 1947 and not replaced. The B’nai Sholom Congregati ...

, Quincy, Illinois, 1870 * Central Synagogue, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York, 1872 *

Vine Street Temple A vine (Latin ''vīnea'' "grapevine", "vineyard", from ''vīnum'' "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas or runners. The word ''vine'' can also refer to such stems or runners themselv ...

, Nashville, Tennessee, 1874 * Charter Oak Temple (Congregation Beth Israel), Hartford, Connecticut, 1876 * Temple of Israel,

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, 1876 *

B'nai Israel Synagogue (Baltimore) B'nai Israel is a Modern Orthodox synagogue located in the historic Jonestown neighborhood, near downtown and the Inner Harbor of Baltimore. The synagogue is one of the oldest synagogue buildings still standing in the United States.Gordon, Mar ...

, Maryland, 1876 * Temple Adath Israel,

Owensboro Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. It is the fourth-largest city in the state by population. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 and Interstate 165 about southwest of Lou ...

, Kentucky, 1877 * Prince Street Synagogue (Oheb Shalom,) Newark, New Jersey, 1884 * Eldridge Street Synagogue, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York, 1887 *

Congregation Beth Israel of Portland, Oregon Beth Israel is a Reform congregation and Jewish synagogue in Portland, Oregon, United States. The congregation was founded in 1858, while Oregon was still a territory, and built its first synagogue in 1859. Architecture The congregation's firs ...

, 1888 (no longer standing) *

Park East Synagogue Park East Synagogue is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in New York City. Building The building was built in 1889–1890. The architects were Schneider and Herter, who designed numerous tenements on New York's Lower East Side as ...

, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York, 1889 *

Gemiluth Chessed ''Gemiluth Chessed'' (Acts of Loving Kindness) is a Moorish Revival synagogue in Port Gibson, Mississippi. It is the oldest surviving synagogue in the state and the only building of this architectural style. It was built in 1892 by a community o ...

, Port Gibson, Mississippi, 1891 * Temple Emanu-El (Helena, Montana), 1891 *

Temple Beth-El, Corsicana Temple Beth-El is an historic Moorish Revival synagogue located at 208 South 15th Street in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas. Landmark status Temple Beth-El became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1981. On February 3, 1987, Temple Beth-E ...

, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, 1898–1900 *

Temple Sinai (Sumter, South Carolina) 'Temple Sinai'' is an historic Reform synagogue located at 11 Church Street on the corner of West Hampton Avenue, in Sumter, South Carolina, United States. Built in 1912 of brick in the Moorish Revival style, Temple Sinai was added to the Nati ...

, 1912 *

Young Israel of Flatbush Young Israel of Flatbush is a historic synagogue at 1012 Avenue I in Midwood, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It was built between 1925 and 1929 and is a three-story Moorish-inspired style building faced in polychromatic patterned brick. It featu ...

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, 1923BJHI Author (December 5, 2013
"Young Israel Of Flatbush"
Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative. Retrieved August 23, 2021. * Ohabei Shalom, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1925 * Congregation Ohab Zedek, Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York, 1926 * Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Philadelphia, 1928

Latin America

Sephardic Temple Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), pt, Judeus sefa ...

, Barracas district, Buenos Aires, Argentina * Palacio Arabe, downtown Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1945

Churches and cathedrals

* The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity,

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(1825–1832) an early example of Moorish revival architecture is located in Gibraltar, which formed part of Moorish

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between 711 and 1462 AD. *

Immaculate Conception Church (New Orleans) Immaculate Conception church, locally known as Jesuit church, is a Roman Catholic church in the New Orleans Central Business District, Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. The church is located at 130 Baronne Street, and is part ...

, (a.k.a. Jesuit Church) is a striking example of Moorish Revival Architecture. Across the street was the College of the Immaculate Conception, housing a chapel with two stained glass domes. The chapel was disassembled and about half of it (one of the stained glass domes, eleven of the windows) was installed in the present Jesuit High School.

Shriners Temples

The

Shriners Shriners International, formally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (AAONMS), is an American Masonic society established in 1870 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Shriners International describes itself ...

, a fraternal organization, often chose a Moorish Revival style for their Temples. Architecturally notable Shriners Temples include: * Acca Temple Shrine, Richmond, Virginia, currently Altria Theater, formerly 'The Landmark Theater' and 'The Mosque' *

Algeria Shrine Temple The historic Algeria Shrine Temple, now also known as the Helena Civic Center, is a Moorish Revival building in Helena, Montana that was built in 1920. The building served as a meeting hall for the Algeria Shriners and had civic functions. It wa ...

, Helena, Montana * Almas Temple, Washington D.C. * El Zaribah Shrine Auditorium, Phoenix, Arizona *

Jaffa Shrine Center The Jaffa Shrine Center is a 3,200-seat multipurpose arena located in downtown Altoona, Pennsylvania. The current Shrine Center, headquarters to the Jaffa Shriners, was built in 1930, opening on September 25 of that year. It was the largest co ...

Altoona, Pennsylvania Altoona is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania. It is the principal city of the Altoona Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The population was 43,963 at the time of the 2020 Census, making it the eighteenth most populous city in Pennsylvania. T ...

Medinah Temple The Medinah Temple is a large Moorish Revival building in Chicago built by Shriners architects Huehl and Schmidt in 1912. It is located on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois at 600 N. Wabash Avenue, extending from Ohio Street to Ontari ...

, Chicago, Illinois now a

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. *

Murat Shrine The Old National Centre, formerly known as the Murat Shrine Temple and the Murat Shrine Center, is located at North and New Jersey streets in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is owned by the Murat Shriners of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of ...

, Indianapolis, Indiana, the largest Shrine temple in North America, now officially known as Old National Centre. *

New York City Center New York City Center (previously known as the Mecca Temple, City Center of Music and Drama,. The name "City Center for Music and Drama Inc." is the organizational parent of the New York City Ballet and, until 2011, the New York City Opera. and t ...

, now used as a concert hall *

Shrine Auditorium The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners. It was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (No. 139) in 1975, and ...

, Los Angeles, California * Tripoli Shrine Temple, Milwaukee, Wisconsin *

Zembo Mosque The Zembo Shrine Building, also known as the Zembo Mosque, is a Masonic building located in the Uptown neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is significant architecturally as an example of Moorish Revival architecture. Construction on the ed ...

, a Masonic Temple in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania * The Scottish Rite Temple in Santa Fe, New Mexico, while not a Shrine Temple, is a Masonic building that uses the Moorish Revival architectural style.

Other buildings

* Palace of Manguinhos, site of the

Oswaldo Cruz Foundation The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Portuguese ''Fundação Oswaldo Cruz'', also known as FIOCRUZ) is a scientific institution for research and development in biological sciences located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; it is considered one of the world's ma ...

, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1905-1918 * "Mosque" shaped steam-generation plant in

Sanssouci Park Sanssouci Park is a large park surrounding Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, Germany, built under Frederick the Great in the mid-1700s. Following the terracing of the vineyard and the completion of the palace, the surroundings were included in the stru ...

, Potsdam, Prussia, 1842 * The

Zacherlfabrik The Zacherl factory (Zacherlfabrik) is a former factory in the 19th district of Vienna, Döbling. It was built in an oriental style. History Johann Zacherl began importing insecticide made from pyrethrum from Tiflis in 1842. In 1870, he sta ...

, Vienna, 1892 * City hall, Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1892 * City hall,

, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1894 * Jewish Hospital,

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...

, Ukraine, 1900 *

Mostar Gymnasium Gimnazija Mostar ( sr-cyr, Гимназија Мостар) is a gymnasium in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Formerly called Gimnazija "Aleksa Šantić" (Гимназија "Алекса Шантић") in honour of the eponymous poet, it is no ...

, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1902 * Former Yenidze Cigarette Factory, Dresden, Germany, 1908 (here, the "minarets" are used to disguise smokestacks) *

Gedung Sate Gedung Sate is a public building in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. It was designed according to a neoclassical design incorporating native Indonesian elements (such as Hindu-Buddhist elements) by Dutch architect J. Gerber to be the seat of the ...

, Bandung, Indonesia, 1924 * Casamaures, Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux, France, 1855 * Villa Zorayda, St. Augustine, FL, 1883 * Campo Pequeno bullring, Lisbon, 1892 * Henry B. Plant Museum, Tampa, FL, 1891 *Atwater water treatment plant, Canal de l'Aqueduc, Montreal, QC, 1912–18 *

Scroll and Key The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society, founded in 1842 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of the oldest Yale secret societies and reputedly the wealthiest. The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies ...

Hall (Yale senior society building, New Haven, CT; 1869 and 1901) * Palacio de Valle in Cienfuegos,

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

(1913–17) *

The Citadel The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, commonly known simply as The Citadel, is a public senior military college in Charleston, South Carolina. Established in 1842, it is one of six senior military colleges in the United States. ...

, a military college in Charleston, South Carolina

Gallery

File:BarroneImmaculateOct07Lowfasc.jpg,

, 1851, rebuilt 1930 File:Leopoldstädter Tempel 1858.jpg, Leopoldstädter Tempel, Vienna, Austria, 1858 File:Spanish Synagogue.jpg,

Spanish Synagogue (Prague) The Spanish Synagogue ( he, בית הכנסת הספרדי, cs, Španělská synagoga, german: link=no, die Spanische Synagoge) is the newest synagogue in the area of the so-called Jewish Town, yet paradoxically, it was built at the place of th ...

, Czech Republic, 1868 File:Firenze synagoga 2009.JPG,

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...

synagogue, Italy, 1882 File:Turin Synagogue 1.JPG,

synagogue, Italy, 1884 File:Fabric Synagogue in Timisoara Romania.jpg,

, Romania, 1889 File:Old Tampa Bay Hotel.jpg,

Tampa, Florida Tampa () is a city on the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and ...

, 1891 File:Grand Choral Synagogue of SPB.jpg, The Grand Choral Synagogue,

, Russia, 1893 File:PilsenSynagogue.JPG, Great Synagogue, Plzeň, Czech Republic, 1893 File:Sarajevo Vijecnica 2013.JPG,

National Library A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant wo ...

, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1894 File:Likani Palace.JPG, Likani Palace, Georgia, 1895 File:Dulber Palace.JPG,

, 1897 File:Moscow Vozdvizhenka Morozov House 08-2016.jpg, Arseny Morozov House,

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

, Russia, 1899 File:Former Jewish Hospital in Lviv, Ukraine.jpg, Former Jewish Hospital in

, Ukraine, 1901 File:Gimnazija Mostar.jpg,

Mostar , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = Mostar (collage image).jpg , image_caption = From top, left to right: A panoramic view of the heritage town site and the Neretva river from Lučki Bridge, Koski Mehmed Pasha ...

, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1902 File:Dresden Yenidze2.jpg,

Yenidze Yenidze is a former cigarette factory building in Dresden, Saxony, Germany built between 1907 and 1909. Today it is used as an office building. It is notable for its Moorish Revival exterior design which borrows design elements from mosques and ...

Tobacco Factory,

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

, Germany, 1907 File:Синагога Ужгород.jpg, Uzhgorod Synagogue, 1910 File:MoorishSantaFe2.jpg, Scottish Rite Temple, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1912 File:Синагога Смоленск.jpg, Choral Synagogue (Smolensk), 1917 File:Arapska kukja 2015 (5).JPG, Hotel Jadran (Arabian house) in

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...

, 1938 File:Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno September 2014.jpg, Campo Pequeno bullring in Lisbon,

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

,1892. File:655070 muzeum w zamku Kórnik (1).jpg,

Kórnik Castle Kórnik Castle (Polish: Zamek w Kórniku or Zamek Kórnicki) is a castle in the Polish town of Kórnik, which was constructed in the 14th century. The current neogothic design and remodeling was done in 1855 partly on the basis of architect Karl ...

, Poland File:Scroll and Key Society building, Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut). Front and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors. Elevation and plans LCCN2013648230.jpg, Scroll and Key Hall; New Haven, Connecticut (Yale senior society building). This is a proposed plan of ca. 1867. Only far left structure was built. File:Kardzhali History Museum, Историчеки музей Кърджали.jpg, History Museum,

Kardzhali Kardzhali ( bg, Кърджали , ''Kărdžali''; tr, Kırcaali; gr, Κάρτζαλι, ''Kártzali''), sometimes spelt Kardžali or Kurdzhali, is a town in the Eastern Rhodopes in Bulgaria, centre of Kardzhali Municipality and Kardzhali Pro ...

, Bulgaria

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