Wooden Mosque is a unique mosque in near Nishapur that is made completely with wood, so named Wooden Mosque. Skeleton style of this mosque is Two by Four or Double L. Continue reading... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Choubin - The Wooden Village
Choubin, The Wooden Village, is located in Neishabour in northeast Iran. The word “choubin” in Persian means made of wood. The village has been constructed by Mojtahedi, who is the owner as well as an engineer, and the facilities include the museum, library, shop, bakery and the mosque are all made of wood. Choubin is also famous for the wooden mosque for it is the first earthquake-resistant structure in its kind in the world.
Iran Nishapur, Cheshmeh Sorkh Private protected area منطقه حفاظت شده خصوصي چشمه سرخ نيشاپور ايران
May 30, 2016 (Persian calendar 1395/3/10)
Razavi Khorasan province (استان خراسان رضوي)
Nishapur county (شهرستان نيشاپور)
Iran Nishapur, Cheshmeh Sorkh Private protected area منطقه حفاظت شده خصوصي چشمه سرخ نيشاپور ايران
Road to Marscota-Peter Walker
Road to Marascota from Peter Walker's brilliant album from 1966, Rainy Day Raga. Islamic geometry and archetecture from The Alhambra in Granada, Spain,the Islamic mosques of Samarkand, Uzbekistan and Isafahan in Iran among others.
Nishapur
Nishapur or Nishabur is a city in the Razavi Khorasan Province, capital of the Nishapur County and former capital of Khorasan, in northeastern Iran, situated in a fertile plain at the foot of the Mount Binalud. It had an estimated population of 239,185 as of 2011 and its county 433,105. Nearby are the turquoise mines that have supplied the world with turquoise for at least two millennia. The city was founded in the 3rd century by Shapur I as a Sasanian satrapy capital. Nishapur later became the capital of Tahirid dynasty and was reformed by Abdullah Tahir in 830, and was later selected as the capital of Seljuq dynasty by Tughril in 1037. From the Abbasid era to the Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia and Eastern Iran, the city evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center within the Islamic world. Nishapur, along with Merv, Herat and Balkh were one of the four great cities of Greater Khorasan and one of the greatest cities in the middle ages, a seat of governmental power in eastern of caliphate, a dwelling place for diverse ethnic and religious groups, a trading stop on commercial routes from Transoxiana and China, Iraq and Egypt.
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