Interglyph

The space between two grooves or cuts, as in a triglyph; usually a flat surface below which the groove itself has been sunk.

 

Interlace

An ornament of bands or stalks elaborated intertwined.

  

Interlacing Arcade

Arches resting on alternate supports in one row, the arches overlapping in series where they cross.

 

Intersecting Tracery

Tracery formed by the curving upward, forking and continuation of the mullions, springing from alternate mullions or from every third mullion and intersecting each other.

 

Interstitium

The crossing in a cruciform church.

  

Intonasco

The fine finished coat of plaster made with white marble dust to receive a fresco painting.

  

Ionic Order

The column and entablature originated by the Ionian Greeks, having a capital with large volutes, a fasciated entablature, continuous frieze and usually dentils in the cornice.

Jamb Figures

 

  

Jamb Shaft

A small shaft having a capital and a base, placed against or forming part of a door or window.

 

Jerusalem Cross

A Greek cross with a smaller Greek cross inscribed in each of the four spaces between the arms.

 

Jewel Glass

 

Jube

A screen separating the chancel from the nave or aisles, or both.

  

Kaaba

A cube-shaped, flat roofed building in the center of the Great Mosque at Mecca; the most sacred shrine for Muslins.

  

Kashi

Faience mosaic panel.

  

Katabasis

In the Greek Orthodox church, a place under the altar for relics.

 

Keystone

 

  

Kneeler

 

  

Kibah, Keblah, Qibla

In Islam, the required orientation of the prayer niche, toward Mecca.

 

Kingdom Hall

A Kingdom Hall is a meeting place for Jehovah's Witnesses. The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Honolulu, Hawaii. Jehovah's Witnesses use Kingdom Halls for the majority of their worship and Bible instruction. Typically three days a week (or more, depending upon how many congregations use the same building), local groups will meet in their Kingdom Halls. (See also Practices of Jehovah's Witnesses.) Meetings usually open and close with song and prayer. Gatherings held in the Kingdom Hall include Bible readings, public talks on matters such as the Bible, family life, Christian qualities and prophecy, as well as discussion of specially-prepared study articles in The Watchtower magazine and other publications of Jehovah's Witnesses. Furthermore, Witnesses meet in Kingdom Halls for preparation and prayer before engaging in their door-to-door ministry.

Kokoshniki

(Russian) In medieval Russian architecture, tiers of small decorative arches.