Dargah Construction Site Photos 2017

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Carved stone columns from India
Installing stone columns and capitals
Completed stone columns from above
Completed stone columns from below
Installing hip corbels, carved by Michael Kothrade
Hip corbels installed and aligned
Corbel detail
Close-up of corbel detail
Welding steel ring in place
Corbels and steel ring
Corbels and steel ring from above
Murshid SAM’s grave and teachings
Assembly of base of roof, with Sufi Invocation
Beginning to assemble the zome
Zome roof mostly completed, skylight ring ready
Completing the zome roof and skylight
Preparing roof structure with slings for crane
Crane begins lifting roof structure
Roof structure being moved to posts and corbels
Interior view as roof structure is lowered into place
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Dargah with roof structure
Timber frame completed
Exposed Douglas fir ceiling surface in the porch overhang (1)
Exposed Douglas fir ceiling surface in the porch overhang (2)
Exposed Douglas fir ceiling surface in the porch overhang (3)
Dargah with porch overhang completed
Exposed Douglas fir ceiling surface application begins on the zome
Plywood roofing substrate being applied to zome exterior
Exposed Douglas fir ceiling surface application on the zome interior
Panorama showing columns, corbels, and interior of zome
Completed ceiling with opening for skylight
Membrane completed in preparation for installation of copper roof
Copper roof installation begins
Dargah with partially completed copper roof
Cutting one of the many roof tiles
Installing a roof tile on the dome
Final dome roof tile
Completed floor underlayment
Stone floor pattern layout
Making an adjustment to a stone floor tile
Laying stone floor
Lightning rod
Skylight with lightning rod
Raising skylight to top of dome (1)
Raising skylight to top of dome (2)
Dome with skylight installed
View of skylight from interior of Dargah
Carved stone columns from India
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VIDEO! Watch the dome, or Zome, being lifted and placed on top of the nearly-completed structure.




















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