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Fahraj Congregational Mosque
(3,118 words)
Fahraj Congregational Mosque, is a brick and clay edifice built as a series of arcades around a small central courtyard. Fahraj is a small town in the central Iranian province of Yazd, a region of low precipitation and arid conditions, approximately 30 km south-east of the city of Yazd. The date of construction for the mosque is not clear but scholars have placed it during the early centuries of the Islamic era. Despite the fact that it was only lately discovered, the importance of the congregatio…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date:
2021-06-17
Dawāzdah Imām
(1,474 words)
Dawāzdah Imām, is a domed mausoleum or shrine (
buqʿa) in the city of Yazd which, according to the inscription of foundation, was built in 429/1038 apparently by two sons of Yināl, Abū Najam Badr and Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq, both commanders in the army of the founder of the Kākūyid dynasty, Abū Jaʿfar ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla Daylamī, who reigned in the Jibāl ca. 398–443/1008–1041 (Afshār 2/311).There is no mention of this structure in any written historical source. However, the building has been recognised in recent research on the history of Persian architecture as a struc…
Source:
Encyclopaedia Islamica
Date:
2021-06-17
