Note: All sites may be listed as more than one type.

* Agricultural (e.g. pigeon towers, windmills, silos, barns, irrigation systems)

* Baths (hammams, spas)

* Commercial (e.g. bazaars, bedestens, caravanserais, chaikhanas, stores, shopping centers, office buildings, banks, restaurants, hotels, warehouses)

* Educational (e.g. madrasas, mektebs, sabil-kuttabs, libraries, primary schools, high schools, university campuses, training centers)

* Funerary (e.g. cemeteries, mausolea, tombs, tombstones)

* Government (e.g. city halls, parliamentary buildings, ministries, embassies, police stations, prisons)

* Health Care (e.g. hospitals [traditional and modern], clinics, health centers)

* Industrial (e.g. factories)

* Landscape (e.g. gardens, parks, agricultural field systems, terraces, views)

* Military (e.g. barracks, city walls, gates, citadels, castles, towers, rbat)

* Open/Public Spaces (e.g. streets, squares, plazas, maydans, esplanades)

* Palatial (e.g. palaces, garden pavilions)

* Public Monuments (symbolic structures, e.g. public sculpture, murals, triumphal gates, towers of victory, clock towers, non-defensive towers)

* Public/Cultural (e.g. museums, exhibition halls, art centers, art galleries, cultural centers, theaters, community centers, conference centers, expositions, world fair pavilions)

* Recreation and Sport (e.g. stadiums, sport facilities, amusement parks, playgrounds)

* Religious (e.g. mosques, shrines, tekkes/takiyas, husseiniyas, jamaatkhanas, minarets, mashhads, khangahs, churches, synagogues, temples)

* Residential (other than palatial) (e.g. private dwellings, apartment houses, housing developments)

* Social Welfare (e.g. soup kitchens, almshouses, orphanages)

* Transportation (e.g. bridges, roadworks, tunnels, bus stations, train stations, airports, port facilities)

* Urban Settlements (e.g. urban upgrading, self-help community planning)

* Waterworks (e.g. fountains, sabil-kuttabs, wells, cisterns, water towers, aqueducts, dams, qanats, irrigation systems)

* Miscellaneous
(This category will be used for sites for which none of the other categories truly apply.)