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Yazd city located in central
desert of Iran with a warm and dry climate is one of the historical cities
and the first sun dried brick in the world.
UNESCO organization has entitled the city of Yazd as the sister of
Venice (Italy).
This city is famous in the world for its historical, sun dried brick and
muddy constructions. We can see such this historical places even before
Islam.
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Yazd, a historical
City"
A historical city which regrets never having been a capital while
so many now forgotten ones were, Yazd commemorates by unusual monuments
the importance given it by scores of scientists and thinkers in past
centuries.
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Jami's Mosque
The Friday Mosque crowned by a pier of minarets, the highest in
Persia, the portal's facade is decorated from top to bottom in dazzling
tilework, predominantly blue in color. Within there is a long arcades
court where, behind a deep-set south-east Ivan, is a sanctuary chamber.
This chamber, under a squat tiled dome, is exquisite decorated with
faience mosaic: its tall faience Mihrab, dated 1365, is one of the
finest of its kind in existence. The Mosque was largely rebuilt between
1324 and 1365, and is one of the outstanding 14th century buildings
in Persia. The tilework has recently been skillfully restored and
a modern library built to house the mosque's valuable collection of
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Yazd, Bazaar
Bazaar Entrance, 19th century. This incredibly imposing bazaar entrance
was an excuse for a magnificent display of ostentation. The bazaar
itself is comparatively small, but the entrance is undoubtedly the
grandest in Iran. The twin minarets rival those of the Jami' Mosque,
while the entire facade is decorated with glazed titles and plaster
stalactite vaulting. The wooden framework is decorated and carried
during the procession for the mourning for Imam Husayn. |
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Zoroastrian Fire
Temple
This is Yazd's "Fire Temple". The institutes meet there,
but nobody apart form the Grand Priest, a descendant of the Magi,
reciting the Avesta, has access to the Saint of Saints where for the
past 3000 years a fire burns in a brazen vessel. The fire itself is
a representation of what is good. |
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Water House
Enormous domes starting at ground level and also surmounted by
arivents act as protective roofs for deep water-tanks six, eight or
ten meters below the street level, which are reached by staircases.
These buildings are so clean and well cared for that they look as
if they were build yesterday. |
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Vagt u Sa'at Square
This building is in fact the tomb of Sayyid Rukn ad-Din, and is
all that remains of a complex erected to his orders known as the Institute
of Time and the Hour whose mechanical devices made it one of the wonders
of the age. |
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