Blue mosque of Tabriz
See also: blue Mosque (homonymy)
The blue mosque is a religious building located at Tabriz, built in 1465 for a dynasty Turkmène. It is currently enough ruined, but belonged to a great architectural complex including/understanding inter alia a cistern, a library, a tomb and a khanqah. The surviving part besides is not clearly identified.
The plan of this mosque was close to that of the mosque of Van (1389-1400): a room under dome surrounded on three sides of a gantry out of U and equipped with an outgrowth which was perhaps used as mausoleum. Two minarets overhung the building.
The decoration, of a rather exceptional quality, was carried out out of glaçurée ceramics of six colors and marble skirting. The decorative vocabulary of the timurides, in particular the palmettes rumies, is found there, as in the majority of constructions turkmenes.
This mosque constitutes an important stake in Islamic architecture. It could have inspired the realizers of the green Mosquée of Bush, to which worked of the craftsmen of Tabriz.
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