Moorish Revival, also called Neo-Moorish, is an exotic architectural movement that grew out of Romanticist Orientalism, drawing on classic Moorish and Islamic architectural traditions for decorative vocabulary beyond the familiar classical and Gothic modes. Early examples appeared in English garden follies around 1812, with Edward Blore's 1826 Alupka Palace in Crimea marking a turning point toward serious architectural application, and the style gained wide prominence after the mid-nineteenth century across Europe and the Americas. Its buildings are marked by horseshoe and bulbous domes, pointed and polylobed arches of varying shapes, and intricate surface ornamentation drawn from Near Eastern Islamic sources. The style became especially popular for synagogues, particularly among Central European Jewish communities, as well as theaters, fraternal temples and civic buildings, and spread through Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russia, the United States and Latin America into the early twentieth century.
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Refers to the style in 19th-century European architecture and decorative arts
Villa Crespi (Wikipedia)
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Spanish colonial revival, Art Deco, Moorish revival
Great Synagogue of Florence (Wikipedia)
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Designed in the Italian and Moorish Revival styles, the synagogue was completed in 1882.
New Synagogue (Berlin) (Wikipedia)
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Because of its Moorish style and resemblance to the Alhambra, the New Synagogue is an important architectural monument in Germany.
Spanish Synagogue (Prague) (Wikipedia)
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The synagogue was completed in 1868 in the Moorish Revival style on the site of the presumably oldest synagogue, Old School (German: Altschul).
Eldridge Street Synagogue (Wikipedia)
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The synagogue was designed by Peter and Francis William Herter in the Moorish Revival style, with Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival elements spread throughout the building.
King's House on Schachen (Wikipedia)
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Casamaures (Wikipedia)
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It was designed in the Moorish Revival-Arab-Andalusian style, with elaborate facades, architectural elements, and fine detailing.
Villa Susini (Wikidata)
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architectural style: Moorish Revival architecture
Palacio del Valle (Wikidata)
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architectural style: Moorish Revival architecture
Dohany Street Synagogue (Wikipedia)
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The synagogue was built between 1854 and 1859 in the Moorish Revival and Romantic Historicist styles, with the decoration based chiefly on Islamic models from North Africa and medieval Spain (the Alhambra).
Jonathan Child House & Brewster-Burke House Historic District (Wikipedia)
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Category:Moorish Revival architecture in New York (state)
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