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The Original Identity of the Safavid (Mosque) In Isfahan

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences

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Title The Original Identity of the Safavid (Mosque) In Isfahan
 
Creator Mahdinejad, Jamaleddin
Pour, Marzieh Etemadi
 
Description Kafran is among villages of the general region of Rouydasht, at the extreme eastern end of Isfahan province, having a long
past, due to it’sexisting documents. The present study, being just a part of the whole program known as development of the
history of Iranian architecture, tries to uncover the identity and development of the Mosque. Todo this, and with the aid of
librarian and field studies, we shall try to investigate this structure attributed to Safavid period, by representing a description of
its features, through maps. These are followed by some architectural analyses, according to which it is found that the southern
nave is nothing more than a later addition to the original building. This hypothesis may be proved through employing such
arguments as the "non-existence of" the mentioned space in the initial design of the structure; therefore one may conclude that
the initial using of the original building had not been religious at all. Other [visual] evidences corroborate our hypothesis; among
them one can mention the lack of form, scale and shape proportions of the main (northern)nave for performing "prayer
ceremony, unsuitability of first story spaces for usual functions of mosques, lack of historical precedence for the model in the
known Iranian History of mosque building, and etc. Ultimately it should be noted that the original nucleus of Hadji mosque is
very similar to Safavid pavilions, and thus one may put forward the proposal that the original nucleus of the structure might
have been of "formal-ceremonial, or -administrative" type.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s6p242
 
Publisher Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
 
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Date 2015-12-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier https://www.mcser.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/view/8495
 
Source Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences; Vol 6, No 6 S6 (2015): December 2015 - Special Issue; 242
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.mcser.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/view/8495/8155
 
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