Darb-e-Imam Shrine

The Darb-e-Imam Shrine ( Persian امامزاده درب امام), located in the Dardasht district of Isfahan in Iran , is a burial complex with a burial ground, shrine buildings and courtyard-like structures belonging to different construction periods and styles. The first structures were built by Jalal al-Din Safarshah during the reign of Jahan Shah , a representative of the Turkmen tribal federation Qara Qoyunlu , in 1453.

The facility has recently acquired particular importance when Peter Lu recognized and published the new, targeted implementation of self-similar patterns using elements from the Girih tiles , which are around 300 years older . The topic is only found more than 500 years later in independently developed findings, for example on fractal structures and especially on Penrose tiling , which was published in 1974.

literature

• Peter Lu and Paul Steinhardt : Decagonal and Quasi-crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture. In: Science . Volume 315, Washington 2007, pp. 1106-1110. ISSN  0036-8075

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• NUMERATOR Mosque builders were 500 years ahead of Western mathematicians
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Coordinates: 32 ° 40 ′ 8 "  N , 51 ° 40 ′ 37.8"  E