Kabud mosque

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Entrance to the Blue Mosque

The Kabud Mosque or Blue Mosque ( Persian مسجد کبود Masjed-e Kabud ) is a mosque in the city of Tabriz in Iran .

history

The Blue Mosque was built in 1465 by order of Chatun Dschan Begun, wife of the leader of the Turkmen tribal federation of Qara Qoyunlu, Jahan Shah , during his reign in the so-called empire of the black mutton . His empire, with Tabriz as its capital, extended over large parts of what is now Iran, Azerbaijan and Turkey . After his death in 1467, the remains of Jahan Shah were buried in the southern part of the mosque. It is widely believed that the mosque was constructed as a memorial to the victories of Jahan Shah.

The complex was completed in 1465. Originally it housed a school, a public bathing facility and a library. In an earthquake in 1779, all buildings were destroyed, only parts of the mosque remained.

The southern part of the mosque, used as a mausoleum , is covered with marble slabs in which verses of the Koran are engraved. The roof of the mausoleum was also destroyed in the 1779 earthquake, but was reconstructed in 1973. The architect Memaran Benam from Tabriz led the reconstruction. The work on the roof has not yet been completed.

Web links

Commons : Blue Mosque  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Lorenz Korn: The mosque - architecture and religious life , Verlag CH Beck, p. 86

Coordinates: 38 ° 4 ′ 24.9 ″  N , 46 ° 18 ′ 3.9 ″  E