Hypostyle
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In architecture, a hypostyle hall has a flat ceiling which is supported by columns, as in the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak. In this case the columns flanking the central avenue are of greater height than those of the side aisles, and this allows openings in the wall above the smaller columns, through which light is admitted over the aisle roof, through clerestory windows.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
