Manar-i Bagh-i Qush
Isfahan, Iran

A minaret atop a portal fragment is the only remaining piece of a larger structure whose remains, much more extensive at the time, were documented by Flandin in the first half of the nineteenth century. This minaret was most probably one of a pair on the monumental portal of a mosque or madrasa. Traces of the iwan entrance and a stairwell are in evidence. The north face of the portal fragment is decorated with large geometric kufic letters in blue glazed brick on a background of uncolored fired brick.

Faience decoration on the minaret dates construction to 1330-50.

Sources:

E. Flandin, Relation du Voyage, Paris 1851

Donald N. Wilber, The Architecture of Islamic Iran, (New York: Greenwood Press, 1969) 182

Location

Isfahan, Iran

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Events

1330-50/730-50 AH

Style Periods

1256-1353

Dimensions

38 meters tall

Variant Names

Bagh-i Qush Minaret
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Minar-i Bagh-i Qush
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Site Types

religious

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