Inside, the shrine glows with gold Qur'anic calligraphy and green vegetal motifs rendered in mosaic. Light filters in softly through windows in the upper drum, illuminating the high dome ceiling meant ...

The shrine’s architectural layout consists of a central rock encased in a cylindrical drum, covered by a 20-meter-wide, 35-meter-high dome. Surrounding this core is an octagonal ambulatory. One of the ...

Following the delivery of dome cars constructed for the Union Pacific and Wabash for the City of St. Louis in 1958, U.S.