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	021 of 145. The Muslims adopted the architectural features of arches into their buildings and created new variations. Pictured here in the interior are double arcade horseshoe arches with alternating red and white masonry that reach outwards above the pillars. The arches --the lower horseshoe shaped and the upper more semi-circular-- disperse and break up the sense of weight that an extended low ceiling would produce,