Introducing Persian Architecture

Achaemenid Ali Qapu Apadana arcades arch bazaar beauty blue faience building built CALI CALIFORN capital caravanserais color columns construction court crowned culture Damghan Darius decorative DIEGO SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY domed chamber façade faience feet high fire temple Firuzabad forms four-ivan fourteenth century friezes garden Gawhar Shad grandeur Gunbad-i-Qabus huge Imam Reza inscription interior Introducing PERSIAN Iranian Isfahan Islamic ivan Kufic LIBRARY SAN DIEGO LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY madrassa Mashhad Masjid-i-Jami Masjid-i-Shah Mausoleum of Uljaitu maydan mihrab minarets Mongols monuments mosaic faience mountain Nishapur octagonal ornament outer portal palace panels Parthian Pasargad patterns Persepolis Persian architecture Persian Art rival ruins sacred Safavid Samanid Samarkand SAN DIEGO LIBRARY sanctuary Sasanian Seljuk Shah Abbas Shaykh Lutf Allah Shiraz shrine SITY splendor square squinch stalactites stone structure style Sultaniya Susa Tabriz Takht-i-Suleiman tenth century tion tomb towers tradition UNIV UNIVERSITY DIEGO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNIVERSITY SAN DIEGO walls Yazd ziggurats