La Grande Poste in Algiers today. Believe it or not, some aspects of Moorish and neo-Moorish architecture seem to have an African origin, perhaps among Berber Muslims in the Maghreb, who spread the style to the north and south. Aspects of an African origin can be seen in the crenelations, prominence of ribbed domes, horseshoe-shaped archways, arches on piers and posts, intersecting arches, lobed windows with different shapes, blind arcades, stylistic variations in differing parts of the same structure, etc. are all elements of North African/West African influences in Moorish architecture. Susan Preston Blier is my main source, and she is a titan in her field of African art history.
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