Introducing Persian Architecture

1817 LIBRARIES Achaemenid ad-Din Ali Qapu Apadana arcades Assyrian bazaar beauty blue faience building built capital caravanserais central CHIGAN color columns construction court crowned culture Cyrus Damghan Darius decorative domed chamber earliest empire enamel tile façade faience feet high fire temple Firuzabad forms four-ivan fourteenth century friezes garden Gawhar Shad grandeur Gunbad-i-Qabus hall huge Imam Reza imposing inscription interior Introducing PERSIAN Iranian Isfahan Islamic ivan Kufic madrassa Mashhad Masjid-i-Jami Masjid-i-Shah Mausoleum of Uljaitu maydan MICHIGAN mihrab minarets Mongols monuments mosaic faience mosque of Gawhar mountain Nishapur octagonal ornament outer portal palace Parthian Pasargad patterns Persepolis Persian architecture Persian Art polychrome rival ruins sacred Safavid Samanid Samarkand sanctuary Sasanian scale Seljuk Seljuk architecture Shah Abbas Shaykh Lutf Allah Shiraz shrine splendor square squinch stalactites stone structure style Sultaniya Susa symbolic Tabriz Takht-i-Suleiman Taq-i-Kisra tenth century Timur tion tomb towers tradition UNIV UNIVERSITY walls Yazd ziggurats