Atabakan Mosque, Shahrekord

🕰️When was it built?

The mosque goes back to the early 7th century AH (13th century). It was restored in the Safavid era and given a brick face, and then repaired in the Qajar and Pahlavi eras. It has been on Iran's National Heritage List since 1972 as number 925.

🏛️What was it built for?

The mosque is built as a prayer hall, meaning the main space for prayer is under a roof held up by columns and vaults. Mud brick, clay mortar and brick are among its materials, and the plain mihrab and the lack of a minaret draw attention to the covered space itself.

👀What you will see

• Four thick brick columns with prism-shaped shafts, on which the vaults of the prayer hall rest.
• The plain mihrab of the mosque, without busy decoration, in keeping with the lightly decorated prayer hall.
• Three arched windows high on the walls, made to light the interior.
• The central dome and the passages around it, which with the brick columns form the central space of the mosque.
• The mosque's west door, which opens towards the shrines of Halimeh and Hakimeh Khatun.

💡Something interesting

The mosque was once more than the space that survives; an ablution house and several shops stood beside it. The income from those shops was set aside for the mosque's costs, but the surrounding buildings were gradually lost.

🎒Good to know before you go