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This building has a prayer hall covered with cross-vaults, with a dome resting on squinches over the area in front of the "mihrab".
While the central dome is nearly plain, in the interior the four corners are provided with a series of squinches.
The rooms are dome-shaped; transition from a quadrangular frame to a dome is by a squinch.
The dome is supported on giant squinches supported by groined pendentives while outside the building is supported by domed octagonal corner towers.
Prior to the pendentive's development, the device of corbelling or the use of the squinch in the corners of a room had been employed.
However, the latter has a pendentive below each squinch.
The dome rests on large squinches, which are supported by corbels.
The floor was lowered and 17th century plasterwork was removed to reveal a system of eight large and sixteen small squinches under the circular drum.
Unlike other monuments, where domes are supported on squinches, here corbelled pendentives support the dome.
A spherical cupola with a pointed top has squinches decorated with plant ornaments.
At the same time, the mihrab's ribbed dome on squinches was raised.
To accommodate the dome on the square tomb chamber, the phase of transition in both the tombs is achieved by squinches resting on brackets.
The hemispherical dome (without a drum) rests upon four squinches which make a transition from the octagonal base under the dome to the square defined by the walls below.
These supports lack any capitals but have squinches or consoles at their summit, leading to the optical effect that the arches seem to grow integrally out of the piers.
The dome is created by employing a squinch, or corner bracketing, that allows for the transition from a square, octagonal or 16-sided base to a dome top.
