Hypostyle halls

Examples of Hypostyle halls in the following topics:

• Ancient Egyptian Monuments

  • Hypostyle halls (covered rooms filled with columns) led to peristyle courts (open courts), where the public could meet with priests.
  • This view of the Temple of Karnak shows they hypostyle hall, with massive columns.

• Ancient Egyptian Art

  • Shown here is the hypostyle hall of the Temple of Karnak.

• Restoration of the Stuarts

  • Charles II of England by Peter Lely, 1675, Collection of Euston Hall, Suffolk

• Calling the Estates-General

  • On June 20, he ordered to close the hall where the National Assembly met but the Assembly moved their deliberations to a nearby tennis court, where they proceeded to swear the Tennis Court Oath, by which they agreed not to separate until they had settled the constitution of France.

• Swedish Intervention

  • One of Wallenstein's soldiers, Captain Devereux, killed him when he attempted to contact the Swedes in the town hall of Eger (Cheb) on 25 February 1634.

• Establishment of the National Assembly

  • On June 20, he ordered to close the hall where the National Assembly met but the Assembly moved their deliberations to a nearby tennis court, where they proceeded to swear the Tennis Court Oath, by which they agreed not to separate until they had settled the constitution of France.

• The Storming of the Bastille

  • The press published the Assembly's debates while political discussions spread into the public squares and halls of the capital.

• The Formation of Russia

  • This banquet hall was only one of many major architectural feats Ivan III built during his reign in Moscow.

• Religion Under the Tang Dynasty

  • He collected their riches and distributed the wealth to various other Buddhist monasteries and Taoist abbeys, and used it to repair statues, halls, and bridges in the city.

• The Glorious Revolution

  • Detail of William and Mary as portrayed on the ceiling of the Painted Hall of the Greenwich Hospital.