Friday Mosque of Kashan
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| place | Kashan , Iran | |
| Builder | Safie Chatun | |
| Architectural style | Razi | |
| Construction year | 1074 | |
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The Friday Mosque of Kashan ( Persian مسجد جامع کاشان Masjed e Daschame e Kaschan , IPA : [ mæsd͡ʒɛd ɛ d͡ʒɑmɛ ɛ kɑʃɑn ]) is the oldest historical building in the Iranian city of Kashan . The only brick minaret is on its southeast corner. On the lower part of the minaret there is a Kufi - inscription of raised bricks. The date of construction of the minaret, 466 Hijri (1074 AD) can be read on the inscription. The minaret is the third oldest minaret in Iran that has an inscription.
The mosque was probably a fire temple in pre-Islamic times and after the Islamization of Persia , the fire temple was converted into a mosque.
In the book of Merat ol-Boldan the following was written about the mosque:
- "The mosque, known in Kashan as the Friday Mosque, has a mihrab with a correct qibla and a mihrab with a false qibla. The founder of the mosque was Safie Chatun, the daughter of Malek al-Ashtar ."
The great old mihrab of the mosque, like the minaret, probably belongs to the Seljuk era. It has an exquisite piece on which one can read some verses from the Koran about the benefits of communal prayer. It appears that the great mihrab was purposely destroyed because of the wrong direction of its qibla. Instead of this a smaller mihrabs with the correct direction of the Qibla during the era of was Tahmasp I. built.
The plan of the mosque is simple. There is a Houz in the courtyard in front of a Iwan , who to the inner space of the dome leads, two large with the court par lying Schabestanen and a Winterschabestan underground.
