Arcade one of the galleries of Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia.

• The arch is an opening in a wall (one bay ) which is bent by following various forms of arc. It can be:
  • blind arch whose opening is blocked by a wall with siding profile archivolt form a projection;
  • false: arcade simulated whose bottom is blocked by a vertical surface;
  • feint: arcade simulated and painted to restore symmetry with a real arcade;
  • geminate: arcade offering the appearance of two twin arches formed by two juxtaposed half-circles tangent at one of their ends;
  • registered: arcade geminate enrolled in a high arch;
  • lobed: arcade decorated and cut in proportions of half-circle that goes into the decoration and ornamentation of the archivolt. In the Romanesque arches there are lobed, and quadriform quintilobes;
  • playable or real: arcade with the ability to move by offering a direct path.

• The arcade is also ordered series of bays bent (meaning common). The span is one element of the set. The arch structure of a wall decoration in its lower or upper part or on the front is the arcade.

• Portal architecture and urbanism

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