Masjid-i Hakim

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dc.coverage.spatial	Site: Isfahan (Iran)	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	creation date: 1654	en_US
dc.creator	Unknown	en_US
dc.date	1654	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2010-10-29T19:53:01Z
dc.date.available	2010-10-29T19:53:01Z
dc.date.issued	1654	en_US
dc.identifier	148398	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/57042	en_US
dc.description	"The Masjed-e-Hakim was built by the doctor of Shah Abbas II (Muhamad Daoud Molagheb - otherwise known as Toghreb Khan) between 1656 and 1662 according to an inscription over the porch he built nearer the bazaar, but stands partially, at any rate, on the site of a much older mosque built under the Buyids by Sahib Ismail Ibn Abbad, during the tenth century. Local legend has it that the Sahib taught in the area which now constitutes the main sanctuary chamber of the Masjed-e-Jomeh, and whose lower half possibly rivals this in antiquity. The original mosque was built predominantly of plaster and little has survived, although the pleasant ivory tone of the remaining parts stems from the use of this material. This entrance to the mosque, which is found in a somewhat uninspiring alleyway to the north-east of the main bazaar, is known as the Portal of Jorjir and is probably the oldest religious building in Isfahan. It shows the development of a quite unique style of ornamentation under the Deylamid rulers. The archnet is particularly attractive with magnificent stucco kufic set into the simple squinches. Freed of the increasing use of pendentives which was to characterise later developments of the semi-dome, this has a transparent elegancy that rivals that of the dome of the Sheikh Lotfallah Mosque, 600 years later. The excellent state of the portal stems from the fact that it was covered with mud walls until the Department of Antiquities uncovered it in 1956."	en_US
dc.description	interior, view of mihrab, 2001	en_US
dc.format.medium	stucco	en_US
dc.format.medium	brick	en_US
dc.format.medium	ceramic tile	en_US
dc.format.medium	plaster	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	100493	en_US
dc.rights	(c) C. Hadimi 2001	en_US
dc.subject	Kufic	en_US
dc.subject	Bazaars (Markets)	en_US
dc.subject	Islam -- History	en_US
dc.subject	Four-iwan mosques	en_US
dc.subject	Isfahan (Iran)	en_US
dc.subject	Inscriptions, Arabic	en_US
dc.subject	Inscriptions, Persian	en_US
dc.subject	Architecture, Islamic --Iran	en_US
dc.subject	Religious architecture	en_US
dc.subject	Architecture, Safavid	en_US
dc.subject	Muqarnas	en_US
dc.subject	Qibla walls	en_US
dc.title	Masjid-i Hakim	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Hakim Mosque	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Mosque of al-Hakim	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Masjid i Hakim	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Masjed-e Hakim	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	All rights reserved	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	Hadimi 25	en_US
vra.culturalContext	Persian	en_US
vra.culturalContext	Islamic	en_US
vra.technique	construction	en_US
vra.technique	mosaic (process)	en_US
vra.worktype	Mosque	en_US
dc.contributor.display	Islamic, Persian	en_US