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Creation Year
1963
Image ID
BE.029
Alternate Identifier
B45.518
Subcollection
BE: Tehran, Qazvin, Saveh, Nein, Yazd
Description
View of the northwest iwan of the Friday Mosque at Saveh. The treatment of the transverse vault is one of the more ingenious characteristics of this mosque. The ‘vault within the vault’ gives the building an air of majesty. The interior is also richly shadowed by semi-domical vaults imposed on each other, which were at some point filled with stalactites now fallen away.
Image Notes
Creation date unknown. Photograph processed September 1963. Formerly catalogued as B45.518, K.028. Notes written on the slide or index: Saveh.
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Saveh, Iran
Keywords
Twelfth Century, Seljuk, Mosque, Stone, Masonry, Brick, Mihrab, Iwan, Vaulting, Semi-dome, Arches, Pointed Arches
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