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The dead-end lane and its houses

A cul-de-sac entered through a gate from the street, courtyard houses on either side and one closing its end: the unit of the Islamic town fabric.

The dead-end lane and its houses Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Early Islamic (Umayyad and Abbasid) · Moorish (Western Islamic) · Persian Islamic (Seljuk, Timurid and Safavid) · Ottoman · Mughal