The Jāmeh Mosque of Ardestan ( fa, مسجد جامع اردستان – ''Masjid-e-Jāmeh Ardestan'') is a
congregational mosque
A congregational mosque or Friday mosque (, ''masjid jāmi‘'', or simply: , ''jāmi‘''; ), or sometimes great mosque or grand mosque (, ''jāmi‘ kabir''; ), is a mosque for hosting the Friday noon prayers known as ''jumu'ah''.*
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(Jāmeh) in
Ardestan
Ardestan ( fa, اردستان, also Romanized as Ardestān and Ardistān) is a city and capital of Ardestan County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 14,698, in 4,077 families.
Ardestan is located at the southern foo ...
, in the province of
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 ...
. It ranks as No. 180 in the Inventory of National Artefacts of Iran.
The oldest parts indicate a pre-Seljuk building, and it is possible the mosque was built on the site of a
Chahartaq. The structure was incorporated in a Seljuk kiosk mosque in the 12th century,
and further expanded to the classical
four-iwan plan
An iwan ( fa, ایوان , ar, إيوان , also spelled ivan) is a rectangular hall or space, usually vaulted, walled on three sides, with one end entirely open. The formal gateway to the iwan is called , a Persian term for a portal projectin ...
. The
stucco
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and a ...
decoration of the
mihrab
Mihrab ( ar, محراب, ', pl. ') is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the ''qibla'', the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying. The wall in which a ''mihrab'' appears is thus the "qibla w ...
was altered during the
Il-Khanid period.
Gallery
File:Ardestan Jame Mosque 1.jpg
File:Ardestan Jame Mosque 2.jpg
File:North Eyvan of Ardestan Jame Mosque.jpg
File:Jame-Ardestan.JPG
References
External links
12th-century mosques
Mosques in Iran
Buildings and structures in Isfahan Province
Mosque buildings with domes
National works of Iran
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