The "Dos Hermanas" Hall

The "Dos Hermanas" hall presents a central square space with the function of a Mesuar or council hall for the viziers. It is covered by a cupola with "mocarabes" or "muqarbas" (decorative motif characteristic of the Moslem architecture, based on vertically juxtaposed bows or prisms) over an octagonal drum, flanked by three lateral rooms and at the rear the "Mirador of Lindaraja", used as the throne room, from which the sultan could contemplate the capital of the sultanate. http://www.alhambra.org/eng/index.asp?secc=/alhambra/alhambras_guide/the_lion_palace/the_dos_hermanas_hall