Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 Royal Mosque is registered, along with the ...
Naghsh-e Jahan square, Isfahan. Naqsh-e Jahan Square (Persian: میدان نقش جهان Maidān-e Naghsh-e Jahān; trans: "Image of the World Square"), also known as the Shah Square (میدان شاه) prior to 1979, is a square situated at the center of Isfahan, Iran. Constructed between 1598 and 1629, it is now an important historical site ...
Dome dia. (outer) 22m. Minaret (s) 0. Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque (Persian: مسجد شیخ لطف الله) [2] is one of the masterpieces of Iranian architecture that was built during the Safavid Empire, standing on the eastern side of Naqsh-i Jahan Square, Esfahan, Iran. Construction of the mosque started in 1603 and was finished in 1619.
History of Persian domes. The dome of the Shah Mosque in Isfahan (17th century) Persian domes or Iranian domes have an ancient origin and a history extending to the modern era. The use of domes in ancient Mesopotamia was carried forward through a succession of empires in the Greater Iran region. An ancient tradition of royal audience tents ...
Muqarnas (Arabic: مقرنص; Persian: مقرنس, or Persian: آهوپای, romanized:ahoopāy), also known in Iberian architecture as Mocárabe (from Arabic: مقربص, romanized:muqarbaṣ), is a form of three-dimensional decoration in Islamic architecture in which rows or tiers of niche-like elements are projected over others below. [ 1 ]
Azadi Tower in Tehran (1971), by architect Hossein Amanat.His ideas were based upon classical and post-classical Iranian architecture. [1] The ruins of Persepolis, begun in the 6th century BC during the Achaemenid Empire Example of an iwan and muqarnas decoration at the entrance of the Shah Mosque in Isfahan (17th century)
Ali Qapu (Persian: عالیقاپو, ‘Ālī Qāpū) is an imperial palace in Isfahan, Iran. It is located on the western side of the Naqsh-e Jahan Square, opposite to the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, and had been originally designed as a vast portal entrance to the grand palace which stretched from the Naqsh-e Jahan Square to the Chahar Baq ...
The first three sites in Iran, Meidan Naghshe Jahan, Isfahan, Persepolis and Tchogha Zanbil, were inscribed on the list at the 3rd Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Cairo and Luxor, Egypt in 1979. [ 3 ] They remained the Islamic Republic's only listed properties until 2003, when Takht-e Soleyman was added to the list. [ 4 ]