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Explanation: Gothic Architecture is a style of architecture which became popular in the ~12th century AD in Europe, and the style most people would probably mentally associate with Medieval Europe. It was influenced in large part by Christian Crusaders returning from the “Holy Land”, where they had seen many magnificent buildings built during the (then-ongoing) Islamic Golden Age. Because of that exposure, Europe began to incorporate features from Islamic architecture, both stylistic and practical.
Just for further reading, the pointed arch is one example of an iconic feature in Gothic architecture that was lifted out of Islamic architecture.
@PugJesus To be more accurate, what they saw in the Holy land, was *Roman* architecture, that the Islamic world had conquered when they defeated the Byzantines. Hagia Sofia; largely the template for mosques, is a Roman church which predates Mohammed.
Islamic architecture includes Romano-Byzantine influences, but also Iranian, Syrian, and Egyptian influences, and native Arab traditions, and many of the influences being discussed are from the Holy Land, not the journey there - Constantinople is a good distance, geographically and culturally, from the region in question.
I’m unaware of the Hagia Sophia specifically influencing mosque design except insofar as the Ottomans consciously imitated Byzantine architecture after the conquest of Constantinople/Istanbul.
This is what happens when you dump skill points into trigonometry early. Worked for the greeks too.
“the mode which came into fashion after the Holy War. This we now call the Gothick manner of architecture (so the Italians called what was not after the Roman style) tho’ the Goths were rather destroyers than builders; I think it should be with more reason called the Saracen style; for those people wanted neither arts nor learning; and after we in the West had lost both, we borrowed again from them, out of their Arabick books, what they with great diligence had translated from the Greeks.” Paul Wren In his letter to the bishop of Rochester in 1713.