marble dome

On top is the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome.

The marble dome that surmounts the tomb is the most spectacular feature.

The reception is an impressive design with a marble dome adjoined by tropical plants.

The chamber has a marble dome on top and is surrounded by a verandah with a beautiful carved fountain in the center.

The marble domes cover seven prayer chambers.

In the center of the rotunda, under the marble dome, is a brass replica of the state seal.

It is a three-storied stone structure, with marble domes and a 145 ft five-storied tower.

The mosque has a pink facade topped by two 18-storey high octagonal minarets with marble domes.

From above, a cold blue light pierced the translucent marble dome, shrouding the room in catacomb-like half-light.

The three storied stone building of fine gray granite with deep pink marble domes was designed by Henry Irwin.

The tomb's white marble dome rose theatrically from the darkness, bathed in lights that illuminated it from four sides.

With tense eagerness he searched the tree-tops below him, and exhaled a gusty sigh when he caught the glint of marble domes amidst the twinkling green.

N Map In the shadow of the Capitol (you can see the marble dome through the plate glass windows in the dining room), this place simply oozes power.

With its refined marble dome and gilded quadriga by Daniel Chester French, the capitol can hold its head high in the company of Boston's and Richmond's.

Its miniature marble domes, sweeping staircases and fine latticework mark the spot where Guru Gobind Singh, last of the 10 Sikh gurus, was born in 1666.

And here and there lay the enormous shapes of skulls like the white marble domes of palaces built for tyrannous kings a long while since by armies of driven slaves.

Zelana descended through the crisp autumn air to the marble dome of her sister's temple and adjusted her eyes to look through the polished marble at Aracia's regal throne room.

Its large marble dome, often called an onion dome or amrud (guava dome), is about 35 meters high and sits on a cylindrical drum about 7 meters high.

Other than St. Peter's, additional buildings with marble domes include the Taj Mahal in India, and the Rhode Island State House in the city of Providence.

Replete with huge gateways, four tapering minarets of red sandstone, three vast marble domes and an open courtyard said to hold up to 100,000 people, it was damaged by the British and later restored.

Rhode Island - Rhode Island Red, The crystal chandelier from The Breakers, Rhode Island State House's marble dome,

The vast marble dome of the State House stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of the tinted stratus clouds that barred the flaming sky.

O Map Set in an attractive, well-tended park, the incredible Victoria Memorial is a vast, beautifully proportioned confection of white marble domes: think US Capitol meets Taj Mahal.

The dome of the State House is the fourth-largest self-supporting marble dome in the world, after St. Peter's Basilica, the Minnesota State Capitol, and the Taj Mahal.

The building was designed by Cass Gilbert and modeled after Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome-the unsupported marble dome is the second largest in the world, after Saint Peter's.