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Byzantine churches, Crusader castles, Islamic madrasas, Templer houses, Arab arches and minarets, Russian Orthodox onion domes, International Style modernist buildings, sculptural concrete Brutalist architecture, and glass-sided skyscrapers all are part of the architecture of Israel.
Domestic architecture, ancient Israel refers to the typical structures that housed most Israelite families in the Iron Age (c. 1200–587 BCE). Although some house forms that existed in the pre-Israelite periods continued into the Iron Age, mainly in enclaves of non-Israelites, one house form came to dominate in settlements identified as Israelite.
Thanks to Israel’s proximity to Damascus, the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate, the Land enjoyed a great development boom and mosques and palaces were built in the new architectural style and technique.
Archaeology has provided information about "Israelite" architectural practices from the 10 th to 6 th centuries B.C.E., and to "Jewish" styles of building and decoration from the late Hellenistic period (1 st century B.C.E.) and later.
The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE.
The appearance of Jewish art, architecture, and inscriptions increased enormously in the course of antiquity. Their use and variety were peripheral in Israelite-Jewish society of the first millennium bce and were restricted to a very small number of items and sites for much of the First and Second Temple periods.
Ancient Israel is surely not remembered for its magnificent architecture. However, it did have one structure for which it is known in the scholarly literature: the so-called four-room house. Houses of this type consisted of three long rooms and a transverse broad room.
