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What does a squinch support?

Column capital
Dome
Entrance portal
Nave wall

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Dome

A squinch in architecture is a construction filling in the upper angles of a square room so as to form a base to receive an octagonal or spherical dome. Another solution to this structural problem was provided by the pendentive

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