Muqarnas at Shah Mosque

Item

Title

Muqarnas at Shah Mosque

Description

Patroned by Safavid emperor Shah Abbas in 1611, the Shah mosque is located in modern Isfahan, Iran and consists of repeated geographic patterns to create an intricate honeycomb-vaulting system.

Creator

Patron: Shah Abbas (1571-1629). Architect: Ali Akbar Isfahani (1577-unknown).

Temporal Coverage

ca. 1611-1638.

Spatial Coverage

Safavid Empire Isfahan, Iran.

Type

Image.

Date Created

1978.

Source

Photographed by: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom.
Image found on Artstor: https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/ISLAMIC_DB_1039423421;prevRouteTS=1681071005201 .

Contributor

Contributed by Giulianna Larson.

Rights

Blair and Bloom. https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/ISLAMIC_DB_1039423421;prevRouteTS=1681071005201.

Item sets

Encountering the Middle East-01H Spring '23

Site pages

Extravagance in Scale
Shah Mosque Muqarnas Object Page
Shah Mosque Muqarnas: Architectural Legacy of the Absolute Truth
Worms Eye View of a Muqarnas at Shah Mosque