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[[File:Great Mosque of Kairouan prayer hall.jpg|thumb|Prayer hall of the [[Mosque of Uqba|Great Mosque of Kairouan]], in [[Kairouan]], [[Tunisia]]]]
In [[architecture]], a '''hall''' is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls.<ref>Oxford English Dictionary</ref> In the [[Iron Age]] and early Middle Ages in [[northern Europe]], a [[mead hall]] was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept. Later in the [[Middle Ages]], the [[great hall]] was the largest room in castles and large houses, and where the servants usually slept. As more complex house plans developed, the hall remained a large room for dancing and large feasts, often still with servants sleeping there. It was usually immediately inside the main door. In modern British houses, an entrance hall next to the front door remains an indispensable feature, even if it is essentially merely a corridor.
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===Religious halls===
In religious architecture, as in [[Islamic architecture]], the prayer hall is a large room dedicated to the practice of worship.<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=S7iJpekO1G8C&dq=religious+architecture+prayer+hall&pg=PA477| title = Stanford Anderson and Colin St. John Wilson, ''The Oxford companion to architecture, Volume 1'', Oxford University Press, 2009, page 477| date = 23 July 2009| publisher = OUP Oxford| isbn = 978-0-19-860568-3}}</ref> (example: the prayer hall of the [[Mosque of Uqba|Great Mosque of Kairouan]] in [[Tunisia]]). A [[hall church]] is a church with a nave and side aisles of approximately equal height.<ref>Sturgis, Russell. Sturgis' illustrated dictionary of architecture and building: an unabridged reprint of the 1901-2 edition. VOl. II. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1989. 346-347</ref> Many churches have an associated [[church hall]] used for meetings and other events.
===Public buildings===
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