page_title: Islamic architecture
section_title: Yemeni
hierarchical_section_title: Islamic architecture / Regional styles / Yemeni
caption_attribution_description: The 1000-year old Bab Al-Yemen (the Gate of Yemen) at the city centre of the capital Sana'a.
context_page_description: Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam. It encompasses both secular and religious styles from the early history of Islam to the present day. Early Islamic architecture was influenced by Roman, Byzantine, Persian, Mesopotamian architecture and all other lands which the Early Muslim conquests conquered in the seventh and eighth centuries. Further east, it was also influenced by Chinese and Mughal architecture as Islam spread to Southeast Asia. Later it developed distinct characteristics in the form of buildings, and the decoration of surfaces with Islamic calligraphy and geometric and interlace patterned ornament. New architectural elements like cylindrical minarets, muqarnas, arabesque, multifoil were invented. The principal Islamic architectural types for large or public buildings are: the mosque, the tomb, the palace, and the fort. From these four types, the vocabulary of Islamic architecture is derived and used for other buildings such as public baths, fountains and domestic architecture.
  Many of the buildings which are mentioned in this article are listed as World Heritage Sites.
context_section_description: Yemeni Architecture can be characterized as “conservative”, as the Yemeni people combine their pre-Islamic and Islamic past. This philosophy is demonstrated in the construction of the mosque of Solomon in Marib, which was built directly on top of an old temple. Yemeni architecture Is the architecture that characterizes houses built on several floors, some of the floors used as a line
  A storage room with removable stairs. The houses are made of mud bricks mixed with Gypsum.
caption: Gate of the Yemen) in the Old City of Sana'a, Yemen
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