Turkish triangle

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The Turkish triangle is a structural element for the transition from the square floor plan of a room to the base circle of a dome .

The upper corners of the cubic space are with pyramidal projecting filled wall segments so that the square in an octagon is transferred, on the boundary lines of the fighter rest of the dome. With more than four Turkish triangles on top of or next to each other, you can also transition into a sixteen or twenty-eight corner.

The Turkish triangle was mainly used in Ottoman and Indo-Islamic architecture alongside the trompe with muqarnas and the pendentif .

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  • Andreas Volwahsen: Islamic India. From the series: Architecture of the World. Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne 1994, p. 180, ISBN 3-822-89532-6 .