alhambramexuar024 / Finely decorated wall with small arched windows in the Mexuar Oratory, Alhambra, Granada, Andalucia, Spain. The small oratory's orientation does not conform to the line of the battlements and adjacent rooms. The room looks like an architectural aberation in plan view. The builders went to great lengths and sacraficed space to turn to face of the oratory southeast toward Mecca.