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Isfahan In News Environmental Central Gems : , Projects & uring the Xth century, the of the Pantheon making use of Improvement city of Bukhara in today’s pozzolana, a very effective DUzbekistan became the mortar. The Byzantine dome On Public capital of the Samanid Kingdom of Hagia Sophia was supported which included north-eastern Iran. by imposing pillars. Seljuk Transportation The Samanids claimed to descend architects found a simpler Are High On The from a Sassanid general and they solution to solve the problem only formally acknowledged the of vaulting a large space. The Agenda In The suzerainty of the Arab Caliphs square area of the Prayer Hall is Coming Year of Baghdad over their kingdom. turned into an octagonal one with They revived the use of Persian four deep niches and eventually (which was now written in the sixteen smaller niches support Arabic alphabet) at their court the circular dome. The walls of and encouraged the development the Prayer Hall are not wide and of Persian culture. They were the niches partly project from the patrons of Firdowsi, who, by them. The dome structure calls writing Shahnameh (The Book for admiration considering that it of Kings), an epic poem on pre- has withstood the ravages of time, Islamic Persian heroes, laid the including earthquakes. The secret eputy of basis of modern Persian identity. of its robustness seems to be the planning, The Samanids were replaced herringbone pattern its bricks are research and by the Ghaznavids and the latter arranged into beneath the stucco D were defeated in 1040 by the decoration. information technology of municipality: Seljuks. These were a Turkish- (I went) to Ardistan, where stucco the budget for Isfahan speaking tribe of Central Asia, is used in a new way, to form a kind municipality is 3000 but they adopted Persian as the of filigree over the brickwork. This billion Tomans, 500 official language of their empire. is Seljuk, dating from billion Tomans of which Ghaznavid and Seljuk rulers 1158, and has the same purity is allocated to Isfahan called themselves sultan, a title of form, though not in the same subway line 2, and 2500 meaning having strength/power, degree, as the small dome chamber billion Tomans of which which had a lay, rather than in the Friday Mosque at Isfahan. on the city developmental religious connotation. The decoration of the with projects. In 1071 the Seljuks defeated the its elaborate stucco carvings is Mahmud Muhammadi Byzantines at Manzikert and believed to have occurred in the said : The budget of occupied part of the Anatolian XIIIth century when Ardestan Isfahan municipality for tableland where they established and the whole of Persia were the coming Iranian year the Sultanate of Rum. In Persia, conquered by the Mongols. This 1396 was handed to the the Seljuk sultans became known decoration recalls that of Ulu Cami Islamic city council on as the Great Seljuks and they set (Great Mosque) of Diyarbakir in Saturday to be ratified in their capital at Isfahan. Eastern Turkey. mid-February after being Today Ardestan is a small town Kufic script was first developed at examined. on the Yazd-Kashan road and is Kufa, a town of today’s Iraq, and Pointing out that 2500 not too far from Isfahan. During used for writing Qur’ans in the billion Tomans will be the Middle Ages, it was one of VIIth century. The books reached espended on next year the most flourishing towns of the countries conquered by the developmental projects the region and this is attested by Arabs and the elaborate design through Isfahan, he added its large Jame Mosque. Jame of Kufic script favored its use for that the most significant means both Friday and great/ decorative inscriptions. These can projects to be carried beautiful. The Qur’an requests be seen in most Muslim countries out next year are the all male Muslims of a town to from Tunisia to Central Asia. environmental projects attend together the Friday noon Ardestan - Friday Mosque & improvement on public prayer so the large mosque where - Facilities: (left) “shabestan”; transportation including they gather is called Friday/ (right) stairs leading to a remember Noel’s* telling me he as it retains the original Kufic and kumbet in Turkish) are typical speedy buses called Great Mosque. The Seljuks were water outlet and to the “shabestan” had calculated that one-third of inscription made up of bricks, a of Seljuk architecture. Kayseri, a BRT, intelligent control followers of Sunni Islam and they Ardestan is located in the the adult male population of Persia detail of which is shown in the large city in Turkey, is known for of traffic, construction promoted the construction of proximity of Dasht-e Kavir, a is perpetually at work on these image used as background for this its many decorated kumbets and of ring road in the city, many large and schools. large desert. Its inhabitants had to underground water channels. page. nearby Nigde for that of Hudavent buying waste water to Inscriptions indicate that the face extreme heat for most of the They can construct an incline of The ban on the depiction of living Hatun. Gonbad-i Ali was built in irrigate the green belt, and Friday Mosque was completed by year and lack of water. The latter forty or fifty miles through the beings was a major limit to the 1055 by the family ruling the town constructing a network of 1158-1160, but it was most likely was available at mountain springs almost flat country without any decoration of Muslim buildings. and most likely it had a pyramidal passages. initiated in ca 1000, prior to the and long tunnels () were instruments, and at never more In its more rigid interpretation, it roof rather than a dome. Seljuk conquest. Its exterior has excavated to carry it to the town than a given number of feet below was not limited to human beings In summer temperatures in towns an irregular appearance, whereas limiting its evaporation. Towers the ground. and animals, but it included near the Persian deserts can easily Museum IRR the interior is structured around a caught the wind and pushed Zavareh is situated twelve miles flowers and trees. The decoration reach 45C/113F, but in winter they Chrhel Sotun 200000 square courtyard with four , the air downwards reducing from Ardestan on the very edge of the mihrab shown above is drop to below 0C/30F. During Vank Church 200000 gigantic niches which are a typical its temperature. Shabestans, of the desert. It was a lively town based on a floral/plant motif, but this time of the year water from Imam Mosque 200000 feature of Persian architecture underground halls built at the in the XIIth century, but today it it is difficult to exactly say which the qanats was frozen and the ice Jameh Mosque 200000 since Sassanid times. The iwans qanat level, enjoyed the cooling is almost a village. It has retained flower/plant it depicts. The town was stored in large underground Decorative Arts Museum 150000 were most likely redesigned in impact of both the water and the to some extent its original urban of Divrigi in Eastern Turkey has spaces which were covered by the XVIth century, but they were air. Contemporary Art Museum 200000 layout and its yellow color which several examples of decorations thick walls. These were made not decorated with tiles, as was The desert between Isfahan and turns pinkish at sunset. Original of the same period based on actual up of a special mortar having Currency IRR customary in that period, a sign Yazd seemed broader, blacker, urban layout and color have or idealized flowers/plants. insulating effects. The ice was

USD 32365 that Ardestan had lost importance. and bleaker than any, despite the almost entirely disappeared Abarquh is another small town used in summer to chill beverages EUR 34622 Domes had a special significance warm spring sun. Its only relief from great cities such as Isfahan, on the edge of a desert, but it is and to make faloodeh, a dessert in ancient temples and early was the ventilation-mounds of GBP 39941 Kashan, Yazd, and Shiraz. situated along the Shiraz-Yazd (frozen starch vermicelli with churches as they symbolized the kanats, strung out like bowler This mosque is dated 1135 and road. It is known for a gigantic syrup of roses and lemon) which CHF 32281 the canopy of heaven, but they hats in rows of ten and twenty it is the first one to have a four- cypress and for a mausoleum built is still very popular at Shiraz, as 4719 CNY were not easy to build. The miles, and enormously magnified layout. It does not seem to on a hill near the town. Isolated an alternative to ice cream (it does 8812 AED Romans built the large dome by the clear shimmering air. I have been significantly modified mausoleums (gonbad in Persian taste good).