Amazing mosque in Esfahan, Iran.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOytbD4Z0s
Think of a time when imams had to address enormous prayer halls of thousands of people — without a microphone. The dome and mihrab (prayer niche) were an architectural technique to amplify the imam’s voice and reverberate it back to the congregation. From the dome to the mihrab to the minaret, every architectural freature of the traditional mosque had some utility.
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