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Niche Architecture

Niches decorating the flat bottom base of one of the domes of the Great Mosque of Kairouan , located in Tunisia.

The painter Filippo Lippi in the Italian Renaissance has placed his Madonna of the Quattrocento within a niche whose head is shaped like a seashell

A niche is a place in round, rectangular or cul-de-four charged in a recessed wall facade, corner or is located inside. It is intended to receive a statue or an urn. It is sometimes framed by pilasters. Style Gothic , niches are adorned to receive statues of medium size, small columns supporting a tympanum.

The niche in the tabernacle is surmounted by canopies.

In a church wall of the alcove is a tomb, a niche with a flat bottom.

In building the party wall in France, the niche of common ownership is the signal that the ownership of this side wall stops at the bottom of the niche.

In Belgium, the niche for protecting religious name Potala ^References