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226 INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII. which pervaded the style during the whole period of its con- tinuance. The Masjid measures 168 ft. 6 in. in length inside by 35 ft. 4 in. from front to back, whilst the court is about 132^ ft. -from east to west, by 130^ ft. from north to south, surrounded by corridors about 17 J ft. wide on the sides, and Lai Darwaza Mosque, Jaunpur. (From a Drawing by the Author.) 1 6 ft. at the east end. The propylon is 45 ft. wide over all at the base and 49 ft. high. Of all the mosques remaining at Jaunpur, the Atala Masjid, completed in 1408, is the most ornate and the most beautiful. The colonnades surrounding its court are five aisles in depth, the outer pillars, as well as those next the court, being double square pillars. The four intermediate rows are single square pillars, supporting a flat roof of slabs, arranged as in Hindu temples. It is also two storeys in height, the lower storey