Lonban mosque
Religion
AffiliationShia Islam
ProvinceIsfahan
Location
LocationLonban quarter
MunicipalityIsfahan
CountryIran
Lonban Mosque is located in Iran
Lonban Mosque
Shown within Iran
Geographic coordinates32°39′04″N 51°39′07″E / 32.651111°N 51.651944°E / 32.651111; 51.651944
Architecture
TypeMosque
StyleIsfahani

Lonban (Persian: لنبان), one of the oldest quarters of Isfahan, is famous for its mosque. Its current structure is rebuilt in the contemporary era, but some of the plaster works and paintings are from the Safavid age. Some of the inscriptions on the portal are the art works of Mohammad Reza Emami. Besides there is an extraordinary wooden minbar which is one of the most exquisite artworks from the time of the Safavid dynasty.[1]

Aboutorab Esfahani, the important calligrapher of the Safavid era, has been buried in this mosque.[2]

References

  1. ^ Hosseyn Yaghoubi (1383). Arash Beheshti (ed.). Rāhnamā ye Safar be Ostān e Esfāhān(Travel Guide for the Province Isfahan) (in Persian). Rouzane. p. 103. ISBN 964-334-218-2.
  2. ^ Ḥabībollāh Fażāʾelī (1971–72), Aṭlas-e Ḫaṭṭ : Taḥqīq dar Ḫuṭūṭ-e Islāmī [The researches of the Islamic scripts] (in Persian), Isfahan, pp. 541–542((citation)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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