Mshatta Palace Facade in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin

Mshatta Palace Facade in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin

is the largest item in the Islamic Art museum and is part of a lavishly decorated dessert castle wall built in Jordan around AD 740. It is 5 m high and 33 m wide. This facade was a present from the sultan to Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1904 and led directly to the foundation of the Museum of Islamic Art – the first outside the Islamic world.

See Visit the Pergamon Museum in Berlin for more on this wonderful museum

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