Minar, Minah

A tower, usually a memorial monument found in India.

Minaret

A tall tower in or contiguous to a mosque with stairs leading up to one or more balconies from which the faithful are called to prayer.

Miserere, Subsellium

A ledge on the bottom of a hinged seat in a church; when the seat is raised, the ledge provides some support for a worshiper or choir singer who in standing leans against it.

 

Misericord

In monastic architecture, a room or separate building where monastic rule was relaxed.

 

Mission Architecture

Church and monastery architecture of the Spanish religious orders in Mexico and California, mainly in the 18th and 19th century.

Monstrance

Monstrance is the vessel used in the Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, and Anglo-Catholic Churches to display the consecrated Eucharistic Host, during Eucharistic adoration or Benediction. The word monstrance comes from the Latin word monstrare, meaning "to show". It is closely related to the English word demonstrate, meaning "to show clearly". Both words share a common root.[1] In Latin, the monstrance is known as an Ostensorium (from ostendere "to show") and monstre/monstral (England).

Monument

A stone, pillar, megalith, structure, building erected in memory of the dead, an event or an action.

Mortuary Temple

A temple for offerings and worship of a decease person, usually a deified king, as distinguished from a cult temple.

Mosaic

A pattern or picture formed by inlaying small pieces of stone, tile, glass, or enamel into a cement, mortar or plaster matrix to form a surface decoration, similar to marquetry.

Mosque

A Muslin house of worship.

Mouchette

In 14th century Gothic tracery a typical small motif, pointed, elongated and bounded by elliptical an ogee curves.

 

Mozarabic Architecture

Northern Spanish architecture built after the 9th century by Christian refugees from Moorish domination, characterized by the horseshoe arch and other Moorish features.

  

Mudejar Architecture

(Spanish, from Arabic) Islamic style architecture built for Christians in Spain.

  

Mullion

A vertical member separating window doors or panels.

  

Multicentered Arch

An arch having a shape composed of a series of circular arcs with different radii, giving an approximating to an ellipse. These arcs are symmetrically disposed above a vertical axis and occur in odd numbers.

 

Multifoil

Having more than five foils, lobes or arcuate divisions.

 

Muqarnas

An original Islamic design involving various combinations of three-dimensional shapes.

Mutule

A sloping flat block on the soffit of the oric cornice, usually decorated with rows of six guttae each.

 

Nailhead Molding

An molding decorated with a series of quadrangular pyramidal projections resembling the heads of nails.

 

Narthex

An enclosed porch or vestibule at the entrance found in church.