Sentence examples for stone dome from inspiring English sources
Soldiers in Russian uniforms guarded a stable of white horses or minded the wardrobe of the czarina, while snow fell gently from a stone dome.
Especially worth looking out for is the Mamluk-era Sabil (drinking fountain) of Qait Bey, with its elegant carved stone dome, one of the few of its kind outside Egypt.
It has the distinction of being the worlds largest hollow stone dome constructed without any supporting pillars.
The niche is surrounded by a square chamber that ends in a lead-covered stone dome.
The courthouse in Wilkes-Barre was lovely, sunlight pouring over its pink stone dome, which was adorned with allegorical women representing civil, criminal, and common law.
You stand at the window, gazing out over stone domes and turrets toward the graceful minarets of the Blue Mosque.
The surviving Roman buildings with stone arches or vaults have typical spans of only 4 to 7 metres (15 to 25 feet); small stone domes with diameters of 4 to 9 metres were built in Roman Syria.
As dawn rose over the tiered stone domes of Angkor Wat on Sunday, Hun Sen joined prayers with 5,000 Buddhist monks, in a ceremony touted as celebrating peace and stability at the symbolic heart of Khmer power.
Built in the 16th century as a Turkish bath, the Aigli Geni Hamam is now an indoor-outdoor bar and nightclub where the lofty stone domes shimmer with disco balls, and the soaring pointed arches glow with colored lights.
As builders of religious edifices mosques, schools, monasteries and, above all, tombs the Mamlūks endowed Cairo with some of its most impressive monuments, many of which are still standing; the Mamlūk tomb-mosques can be recognized by stone domes whose massiveness is offset by geometrical carvings.
Now that site is home to the ivory-stone dome of the Westbury mosque, the grandest on Long Island.
