Shrine of Pir-i Bakran
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Alternative Titles
Pir-e Bakran Shrine
Pir-i Baqran Shrine
Pir-e Baqran Shrine
Shrine of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Bakran
Date
1303-1312Description
The simple cell, for example, at Linjan near Isfahan, Iran, where the Sufi shaykh Pir-i Bakran lived and taught, was transformed after his death in 1303 into a shrine by the addition of an entrance corridor and an iwan.Single, monumental, blocked-up iwan in cemetery. Elaborate carved stucco (in the bevelled Samarran style), tile mosaic and brickwork.The Pir-i Bakran at Linjan, 30 km south-west of Isfahan, is the tomb of the shaykh Muhammad ibn Bakran (d 1303); adjacent to the tomb is a single iwan with extraordinary decoration in carved stucco. plan (drawing), three different building stages
Type of Work
Shrine (structure)Subject
Shrines, Mausoleums, Sufism, Architecture, Islamic --Iran, Religious architecture, Decoration and ornament, Islamic, Decoration and ornament, Architectural --Iran
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