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It is 160 metres (520 ft) wide by 560 metres (1,840 ft) long [1] (an area of 89,600 square metres (964,000 sq ft)). It is also referred to as Shah Square or Imam Square. [2] The square is surrounded by buildings from the Safavid era. The Shah Mosque is situated on the south side of this square.
Shohada Square is an old square in the city of Mashhad, in northeastern Iran. It was built in 1922 as Mashhad's first modern square in the period of the first Pahlavi shah, Reza Shah . It was called Shah's Square but became commonly known as Mojassame (meaning statue ) square because there was a statue of Reza Shah located there.
The Shah Mosque (Persian: مسجد شاه) is a mosque located in Isfahan, Iran. It is located on the south side of Naghsh-e Jahan Square. It was built during the Safavid Empire under the order of Abbas the Great. It is regarded as one of the masterpieces of Persian architecture in the Islamic era.
The Shah Abbas Mosque is located in the narrow southeastern part of the square. Here, the width of the square narrows to 54 meters, and, on the opposite side, it expands to 85 meters. All four sides of the square are surrounded by plane trees. The northwestern and southeastern parts of the square are built up with arched buildings used as shops.
The streets are oriented towards public buildings like a palace, temple, or a public square. Two main roads, ( cardo and decumanus ) cross each other at right angles in the center of the city. A few cities were founded during the early Islamic Umayyad Caliphate , the outlines of which were based on the Ancient Roman concept of the ideal city .
The imperial buildings were mostly constructed using white marble, whilst the public spaces, built away from water sources tended to use red sandstone. [5] The reconstruction of the Lahore Fort took place over 17 years, beginning in 1628. Shah Jahan ordered the immediate construction of a Public Audience Hall known as a Chehil Sutun. [5]
In addition to the bazaar's portal, three other buildings stand at the middle of each side of the square: the Sheikh Lutfallah Mosque (1603–1619), the Shah Mosque (1611–c. 1630), and the Ali Qapu, a palace gateway and pavilion begun c. 1597 and finished under Abbas II, c. 1660.
Azadi Square (Persian: میدان آزادی Meydāne Āzādi meaning "Freedom Square" or "Liberty Square"), formerly known as Shahyad Square (Persian: میدان شهیاد Meydāne Ŝahyād meaning "Remembrance of [the] Shah Square"), is a mainly green city square in Tehran, Iran. It hosts as its centerpiece the Azadi Tower.