부산대학교 도서관

Light, usually free-standing, roofed building, either with open sides or partially enclosed. The term derives from the Turkish köşk (Pers. kūshk), a free-standing palace structure; in the past, kiosks commonly served as garden and banqueting pavilions in such Islamic lands as Turkey, Iran and India. The form was later imitated in European and American gardens and parks, and newspaper stalls and bandstands were built as kiosks from the 19th century. Small peripteral chapels found in ancient Egyptian architecture are also known as kiosks, and the form was commonly used in East Asian gardens. See also Pavilion. Ann Bomann The kiosk, or peripteral chapel, appeared in Egypt at the beginning of the 12th Dynasty (c. 1938–c. 1756 bc) as a derivative of the peripteral temple (see Egypt, ancient, §VIII, 2, (i), (a)). The best-known early example, the White Chapel of Sesostris I (reg c....