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The 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel, whose minarets and Moorish domes are now the pride of the University of Tampa, was a particularly extravagant example of the style. Other schools with Moorish Revival buildings include David H. Zysman Hall at Yeshiva University in New York City.
The National and University Library (Vijecnica) is the most famous example of Moorish Revival architectural language using decorations and pointed arches while still integrating other formal elements into the design. In 1891, Karel Pařík worked on another major building in the pseudo-Moorish style – The Municipal Hall.
[19] [89] This style was a recurring choice for Jewish synagogue architecture of the era, where it was seen as an appropriate way to mark Judaism's non-European origins. [19] [90] [91] Similar to Neo-Moorish, Néo-Mudéjar was a revivalist style evident in late 19th and early 20th-century Spain and in some Spanish Colonial architecture in ...
Facade in Venetian Gothic Revival and Moorish Revival styles. Interior, with stained glass windows. Altar—golden and handmade in Lyons, France. Facade in Venetian Gothic Revival and Moorish Revival styles. Immaculate Conception church, locally known as Jesuit church, is a Roman Catholic church in the Central Business District of New Orleans ...
Neo-Mudéjar is a type of Moorish Revival architecture practised in the Iberian Peninsula and to a far lesser extent in Ibero-America.This architectural movement emerged as a revival of Mudéjar style.
Temple Beth-El is an historic Reform Jewish former synagogue located at 208 South 15th Street in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, in the United States.Operating as a synagogue between 1898 and 1980, the exotic Moorish Revival-style building has been used as a community center since 1990.
The Villa Zorayda in the early 1900s. Franklin W. Smith was an amateur architect [2] and pioneer experimenter in poured concrete construction. [5] His winter home, Villa Zorayda, was the first residence built in the Moorish Revival style in Florida, and the first poured concrete building in St. Augustine.
Built in 1892, it is the oldest congregation in the state and the only building completed in the Moorish Revival style. The congregation was founded in 1870 by a community of Jewish immigrants from German states and Alsace-Lorraine. Due to declining population as people moved to larger urban areas, the congregation closed in 1986.