Tabriziha Mosque

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Tabrisiha Mosque
Coordinates : 33 ° 59 '4.4 "  N , 51 ° 26' 53.3"  E Coordinates: 33 ° 59 '4.4 "  N , 51 ° 26' 53.3"  E
place Kashan , Iran
opening Mohammad Hosseyn Tabrizi
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The Tabriziha Mosque ( Persian مسجد تبریزی‌ها Masjed-e Tabriziha , [ mæsd͡ʒɛd ɛ tæbɾizihɑ ]) is a mosque from the Qajar -time in the Iranian city of Kashan . The mosque is located in the central Malek bazaar . Its builder Mohammad Hosseyn Tabrizi had it built in 1797.

Both sides of the portal were decorated with Haftrang ceramic tiles ( haft rang , “seven colors”, meaning polychrome in the context of a traditional “metaphysics of light”). The vestibule has a stucco inscription . The ceiling of the Schabestans is supported by 18 arcades decorated with bricks and ceramic tiles. The pillars were covered with ceramic tiles. There are inscriptions with verses from the Koran on the four sides of the Schabestans and around the pillars . The inscriptions were written in white Nashi script on the ultramarine blue background. The triangles under the inscriptions are filled with floral ornaments. The mosque's mihrab is decorated with ceramic tiles and has a stucco inscription on which a Quran verse is written in white Thuluth script on an ultramarine blue background.

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Individual evidence

  1. Karl Schlamminger: Introduction. In: Karl Schlamminger, Peter Lamborn Wilson : Weaver of Tales. Persian Picture Rugs / Persian tapestries. Linked myths. Callwey, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7667-0532-6 , pp. 9-13, here: pp. 10 ff.
  2. Hosseyn Yaghoubi: Rahnama ye Safar be Ostān e Esfahan (Guide to the province of Esfahan) . Ed .: Arash Beheshti. Rozane, 2004, ISBN 964-334-218-2 , pp. 187 (Persian).