I believe I am the first person to have noticed the Seljuk stucco in the sanctuary Robert Byron stops in Qazvin on the 14th of April 1934. There, he visits the Friday Mosque of the town, recording his visit as follows: “Almost all visitors to Persia travel either by Resht or by Hamadan, and all…
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The ruins of Qubba-i Sabz and the doubts on its origins in old sources
It was a shrine with a tall blue dome Little can be said about the ruins of the Qubba-i Sabz. Even Robert Byron, that went to see the ruins of this monument on the 24th of March 1934, says little about it, only one sentence: “The Kuba-i-Sabz, which Sykes mentions, has fallen down. It was…
Sexual conduct and the inscription of a mosque: the case of the South Dome of the Friday Mosque of Isfahan.
Much of it is clumsy, some ugly. When Byron sees for the first time the beautiful Friday Mosque of Isfahan, he is in the car of the Hovlands, on the 11th of February 1934. After they passed by the Maidan-i Imam, they drive to the Friday Mosque, and Byron does not seem at all impressed…
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