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In Islamic architecture, the sanctuary or praying-chamber in a mosque,
sometimes enclosed with a screen of lattice-work; occasionally, a similar
enclosure round a tomb.

Mandapa
In Indian architecture, a pillared outdoor hall or pavilion for public
rituals.

Mansard roof
(French roof) A curb hip roof in which each face has two slopes, the
lower one steeper than the upper; from the French mansarde after the ac-
complished 17th-century French architect noted for using (not inventing)

this style, François Mansart, d. 1666.
Marriage stone

A stone lintel, usually carved, with a marriage date.
Mascaron
A mascaron ornament is a face, usually human, sometimes frightening

or chimeric, used as a decorative element.
Mihrab Mihrab
In Islamic architecture, a semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque

that indicates the direction of prayer.
Modillion
Enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cor-

nice and above the bedmold of the Corinthian entablature. It is probably so
called because of its arrangement in regulated distances.

Monotriglyph
Interval of the intercolumniation of the Doric column, which is ob-
served by the intervention of one triglyph only between the triglyphs
which come over the axes of the columns. This is the usual arrangement,

but in the Propylaea at Athens there are two triglyphs over the central
intercolumniation, in order to give increased width to the roadway, up
which chariots and beasts of sacrifice ascended.

Molding
Decorative finishing strip.
Mullion

Vertical bar of wood, metal or stone which divides a window into two
or more parts.

Muqarnas
Type of decorative corbel used in Islamic architecture that in some
circumstances, resembles stalactites.

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