Masjed-e Jam’e Abbasi

Title

Masjed-e Jam’e Abbasi

Date

1611

Identifier

5991

Creator2

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Work Type

Single Built Works

Work Location

Iran (nation)
Eşfahān (inhabited place)

Style/Period

Safavid (Iranian Islamic styles)

Subject

mosques (buildings)
domes (architectural elements)
minarets

Description

View of the Imam Mosque at Isfahan in Iran with dome and 2 minarets. "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 domed sanctuary behind the southwest iwan is flanked by rectangular rooms (36 meters by 18 meters each) functioning as winter prayer halls that are entered from the domed sanctuary aligned on the northeast-southwest axis ... Both the main portal iwan, overlooking the maydan, and the sanctuary iwan are flanked by a pair of soaring cylindrical minarets 34 meters in height. These minarets are decorated with tile mosaics of epigraphic elements ("no God but God").,"--ArchNet

Measurements

minarets: 34 meters in height

Reproduction Type

jpeg

Reproduction Source

47

ID Number

GPB-ISL2-1737

Files

GPB-ISL2-1737.jpg
Date Added
August 29, 2013
Collection
LTU Digital Images
Item Type
VRA Core
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Citation
“Masjed-e Jam’e Abbasi,” LTU Digital Images, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ltuimagecollection.omeka.net/items/show/13615.