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Tomb of Sheikh Sfyaldyn Ardabil, Iran Eleventh World Heritage Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 5(8): 320-330, 2011 ISSN 1991-8178 Tomb of Sheikh Sfyaldyn Ardabil, Iran Eleventh World Heritage Behzad Jamaati-e-Somarin (Yaghish) and Reza Jamaati-e-Somarin Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran. Abstract: Tomb of Sheikh Sfyaldyn Ardabil Ardabil (Iran) having the monuments of the year 735 AH to 1038 AH as a collection of architecture, Kashykary Prhjm diaphoretic, gilded wall painting, inlay and lattice box graves, and the doors Nqrhpvsh Chynykhanh Hall of Architecture Middle Islamic period in which thirty-fourth meeting of the World Heritage Committee (UNESCO) as World Heritage of the eleventh was registered. Mausoleum of Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardabili collection of Sheikh Safi died in 735 AH. By his son Musa Sadr sepulchral building a tower called "Allah Allah" in his burial place was established. Important components of the mausoleum of Sheikh Sfyaldyn series include entrance, large yard Mshjr rectangular, central hallway or small yard in the southern corridor to the "new Chlhkhanh" or "altar" opens. The next component of the main courtyard or inner courtyard which is called the courtyard Qndylkhanh also known in the west side yard, Abbasi entrance is located on the north side of the main floor, porch with the big wooden sash windows are latticed. The north porch, built on the other sash Gnbddar and octagonal building called the "Jntsra" opens. Daralhdys or vault custodian in the southern side of the main courtyard, Mqabr some of the elders on both sides of the Safavid The eye eats. Qndylkhanh, in the main courtyard of the Eastern Front, the northern front view Qndylkhanh, Qndylkhanh vault and entrance is located. Chynykhanh monuments of Sheikh Safi primary series before construction is probably Qndylkhanh Jntsra and, perhaps even simultaneously with the dome Allhallh be made. Tomb of Shah Ismail and the Seal of Nafisi wooden box on the grave of his relief that seem Nhadhand gift is Gvrkany Homayoon Shah. Allhallh the dome over the tomb of Sheikh Safi tower located in the core collection is known. Shrine of Shah-inhabited house in the eastern side Kandil home, has space of ten square meters to the sides of a simple brick dome of the hemisphere is covered. SB 1336 on the dome in place and the main dome is made of imitation. Mhvthay today in the east and north Chynykhanh building located in the courtyard and cemetery Shhydgah known. Key words: Monument, the dome, Chinese home, the house of Sheikh Safi and Kandil. INTRODUCTION Tombs set of elders, and the Safavid kings Mashayekh and ritual and worship spaces in Ardebil. Parts of this history, according to their period of Sheikh Safi (650 735), Persian mystic name, and his sons, Sheikh Musa Sadr and Khwaja Ali Black, arrives. Nvshth to sources, home and hospice Sheikh Safi was the same place, and so will he, in a room next to his corpse Khlvtkhanh spring house and garden and buried and his tomb built building (Ibn Bazzaz, p. 986, 988). Since then the importance and sanctity of this place and found some Mashayekh and incest and the Safavid dynasty, Shah Ismail I (engraved: 907,930) and a group of war victims and Shirvan Chaldoran Jvarmrqd Sheikh were buried. Since the Shah Tahmasp (engraved: 930984), was developed and monument building safe place and shut (see close and shut Down *) were also considered for entry to its procedures and was considered far Hftganh path. Mausoleum of Sheikh Safi Ardebili series of special architectural components and elements is made up of: 1) Over the entrance. Monument entrance on East Jbhh Qapu Square is located in the timber yard Lngh opens big. The portico in front, in the same field from the West, the main entrance to the monument has been called Qapu the Shah Abbas II (engraved: 10521077) to Malik ibn Yusuf Shah Sfya was made. According to the portico Bdnh Ktybh diaphoretic, the monument is kept in stock, it Kashykary painter Ismail bin Ardebili has done in 1057. The entrance was dismantled completely in 1321 SB (Rzazadh Ardebili, p. 660; Safari, c. 2, p. 202 203). 2) large yard. In the western entrance of the mausoleum, the dimensions of a rectangular yard Mshjr and about 93 * 5.26 m is located in the buffer is located between the entrance and the central core collection. The two sides in the pool is a stone memorial that probably has Safavid period. The brick courtyard walls, which are built on rocky Azarh, niche and have Taqnmahayy. Corresponding Author: Behzad Jamaati-e-Somarin (Yaghish), Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran. 320 Aust. J. Basic & Appl. Sci., 5(8): 320-330, 2011 Fig. 1: destroyed part of the portico on the side of Monument Square Qapu Ardebil (born Glmghany principal and Yousefi, 2005). Fig. 2: Great Gate and Main mausoleum of Sheikh Safi, which was dismantled in 1321 (born Glmghany principal and Yousefi, 2005). 3) corridor middle or small courtyard. East side yard in Mshjr large entrance door and small, with brick and stucco officially classified, the dimensions of the corridor 70.5 meters 50.14 * opens. The entrance is from the Qajar period instead portico Qdymtrdvrh Safavi made. Taqnmahay porch and side walls of the courtyard with a beautiful frame and back Gchbryhay Bghlha and Lchkyhay with mosaic tiles are covered. Southern portions of this corridor to a door built into the new house also has a warp. 4) warp the new house (altar). This building is probably Qdymtryn element sets, most of the other sections damaged yard is now obsolete and is square in the West Jbhh, rooms with brick façade and arched arcades there. Warp in the northwest of the house and the roof of one of its cells are shed, stepped brick debris is seen that the upper class way to win, Azynrv warp appears that the upper class house has died. Considering the combination of name and appearance of this building it can be part of their convent Sheikh Safi knew the ritual ceremony and sit warp and has devoted Bytvth Dervishes (Safari, c. 2, p. 218). Refers to this place called the slaughterhouse there that this place also after the Safavid period and after the devastation as was slaughterhouse; as a new term refers to space that also Nrvst time warp older house there today such as two rooms floors in the main courtyard Jbhh Northwest is located. 5) the main courtyard or portico entries Abbasi. The entrance hallway in the Middle East located within, the top decorated with Mqrns·hay on time and at the end of the episode Kashykary tried to connect to the port and place a stone on Kashykary inscription, the name of Shah Abbas, and is closed on the role in 1036. 6) Main campus or the internal courtyard. The courtyard, in the name of the yard Kandil House also known as an area is rectangular with dimensions exceeding 5 R 30 * 16 m with rocks smooth and slick carpeted and is in the center of a pond stone shallow petal shape with twelve cracks (perhaps a dozen Nshanh Frqh Qizilbash or twelve Shia Imam) is embedded. In the past, a well of water wells near the pond there that had their water supplies (the same, c. 2, p. 218 219), but now well on the cover. 321 Aust. J. Basic & Appl. Sci., 5(8): 320-330, 2011 Fig. 3: part of the Western Wall, Foundation House (Glmghany principal and Yousefi Zadeh, 2005). Fig. 4: portico Shah Abbas (born Glmghany principal and Yousefi, 2005). West side of the entrance courtyard is located Abbasi, a brick wall Taqnmadar nationwide and that is decorated with mosaic tiles. The wall on the north side of the small cells with a ceiling two stories short ends that probably warp where the old house was. Tile lattice windows, Chinese lady nodes, light enough to bring into the rooms. Fig. 5: Main floor (Glmghany principal and Yousefi Zadeh, 2005). 322 Aust. J. Basic & Appl. Sci., 5(8): 320-330, 2011 7) Janet Serra. North side of the main floor, large veranda with wooden sash windows are latticed. The north porch, which Msabh throne is embedded in another sash that Gnbddar and octagonal building called Jannat Sara opens. The northern and western walls Janet Serra doors for progression to the adjacent rooms are installed (Rzazadh Ardebili, p. 658). About building the first structure and evolution and its application to accurate information is available. Some have thought that the beginning of construction (possibly 943,947) had dome (Ibid; Safari, c. 2, p. 283) and place of hearing Dervishes, but Avlyaryvs your observation of the monument in the Safavid period have accurately quoted, Janet Serra of the dome has not said word; as Dlavalh (p. 370) also in the same period saw Bqh Sheikh Safi, Janet Serra has called the roofless mosque. Janet Serra apparently after Shah Abbas precious objects and the Royal Library books donated to the monument, has been to the library (Safari, c. 2, p. 246, 284). Probably in the early thirteenth century flat roof with sixteen wooden carvings on the base is built for Jannat Sara (Rzazadh Ardebili, ibid; Torabi Tabatabai, c. 2, p. 140). Qajar period the roof completely destroyed a few decades ago and in recent years the traditional method of brick dome built over it the largest dome series is considered. Fig. 6: Map Jannat Sara (born Glmghany principal and Yousefi, 2005). Fig. 7: Janet Serra of the yard or field that has been rebuilt in 1375 (born Glmghany principal and Yousefi, 2005). Fig. 8: Janet Serra of the East (sometimes martyr cemetery) (born Glmghany principal and Yousefi, 2005).
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