The Masjid-i Pa-Guldasta is a small neighborhood mosque (masjid) located in the Dardasht quarter of Isfahan. Its most notable feature, and the element from which it derives its name, is a historic minaret (Guldasta) that sits atop its roof, rising approximately three meters above the rest of the structure, to a total height of around nine meters. In his survey of Isfahan's minarets, M. B. Smith dated this structure to the "second
Seljuk period,"
1 i.e. the twelfth century, on stylistic grounds. The minaret features brickwork in the form of a repeating square kufic inscription. Surmounting the minaret is a wooden balcony with a conical roof.
Notes:
- Smith, "Manārs of Iṣfahān," 332.
Sources:
Gaube, Heinz and Eugen Wirth. Der Bazar von Isfahan. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 1978. Cat. No. 411 (p. 260).
Smith, M. B. "The manārs of Iṣfahān." Athār-é Īrān 1 (1936): 311-365 (p. 331-2).
