MOSQUE (from the Amble Jlaschiad or Medsched, and inter mediately the Spanish and Portuguese Ale:rialto and Mculncta), a Mohammedan place of worship, the distinctive marks of which are generally cupolas and minarets. [SARACENIC AnellITECTURE.] Inter nally the mopes exhibit nothing remarkable as to plan or acconimo elation, forming merely a single large hull or apartment, without any Poste or other fittings-up, and with no other decoration than that of pavements and carpets, or arabesques and mosaics on the walls. In regard to these latter, some of the mosques at Cairo are highly embellished. Although more famed than any other, the mosque of Santa Sophia at Constantinople exhibits nothing of ilohammedan or Arabian architecture, but was originally built as a church, and in in the Byzantine style. [Bezarerise The mosque of the Sultan Achmet, called the AteMehlan, at Constantinople, though of much later date, shows the Influence of the Byzantine model: we give an engraving of it as an excellent example of a Turkish mosque.
310TET (Me/tette, Ital.), in Music, a vocal composition set to sacred words, and used in the Roman Catholic church. The word was syno nymous with anthem, when first introduced, and signified a superior kind of hymn, accompanied only by the organ. [Aerneu.] Latterly however the Motet has lost much of its pritnitive solemnity, having been, for considerably more than half a century, written with full and florid orchestral accompaniments, and thus, like the Maas, is deprived of no small portion of its devotional character. Many attempts have been made to discover whence the word is derived, but without any satisfactory result.