Hakim Mosque ( fa, مسجد حکیم) is one of the oldest mosques in
Isfahan
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...
,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. Completed in the mid-17th century, in the
Safavid
Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...
era, it is named after Moḥammad-Dāvud Khan Ḥakim (a
court physician
A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to Adjudication, adjudicate legal disputes between Party (law), parties and carry out the administration of justice in Civil law (common law), civil, C ...
) who funded the construction.
The mosque was constructed between 1656 and 1663 and retained the "standard four ''ayvan'' plan and a two-storey arcade" At the same time, however, it also bore a simpler structural pattern and brick and tile surface, compared to the ones that had been erected under
Abbas I (1588-1629).
See also
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Islam in Iran
The Muslim conquest of Persia () led to the end of the Sasanian Empire and triggered the decline of Zoroastrianism among the Iranian peoples due to large-scale persecution by Arab Muslims under the newly-arrived Rashidun Caliphate. Since its es ...
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About Hakim Mosque* Concerning the Masjed-e Jorjir, see H. Gaube et E. Wirth, Der Bazar von Isfahan, Wiesbaden, 1978, p. 203-204; O. Grabar, The Great Mosque of Isfahan, London, 1990, p. 47-48
* Loṭfallâh Honarfar, Ganjina-ye âsâr-e târikhi-ye Eṣfahân, Isfahan, 1344 Sh/1965, p. 612-620
Mosques in Isfahan
Safavid architecture
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