Masjed-e Jam’e Abbasi

Masjed-e Jam’e Abbasi

1611

5990

Shah Mosque

Imam Mosque

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Single Built Works

Iran (nation)

Eşfahān (inhabited place)

Safavid (Iranian Islamic styles)

mosques (buildings)

iwans

Detail view of iwan at the Imam Mosque in Isfahan, Iran. "Following the Iranian traditional mosque plan, the Masjid-i Shah has a court (50 by 67 meters) surrounded by a two-story arcade on four sides with four iwans, one at the center of each side, and a domed sanctuary behind the southwest iwan, oriented towards Mecca. However, the mosque's plan presents an interesting variation: behind each lateral iwan (on the northwest and southeast) is a domed chamber ... The prelude to the mosque, the main portal iwan located on the south arcade of the maydan, was finished in 1616, prior to the rest of the building, so that it could complete the southern facade of the maydan. The portal was covered with tile mosaic above a continuous marble dado, and achieved an extraordinary monumentality through its immense scale, as its arch rises almost twenty-eight meters,"--ArchNet.

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