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AYVĀN".
Encyclopaedia Iranica.
Retrieved 7
September 2022.
Sitwell (1957) Keall...
- Taq-i
Kisra or Taq-e
Kesra (Persian: طاق کسری, romanized: tâğe kasrâ) or
Ayvān-e Kesrā (Persian: ایوان خسرو, romanized: Eivâne Xosrow,
meaning Iwan of...
-
later Islamic-era sources, the
White Palace is
often confused with the
Ayvan-e Kesra. However,
early Muslim writers such as al-Tabari and Ya'qubi, who...
- of
Shapur III. His relief,
known as the "Great
Ayvan", is in a
barrel vault carved in a cliff. The
ayvan is
split into an
upper and
lower section; the...
- high and a m****ive
ayvan (Middle Persian: āywan) was to be
hollowed out of the rock.
According to Salzmann, the
scale of the
ayvan was
probably approaching...
- example, sabz-ākhor "green stable", sabz-āshyāneh "green ceiling", sabz-
ayvān "green balcony", sabz-bādbān "green sail", sabz-bāgh "green garden", sabz-farsh...
- said to be the
largest mosque in the sub-continent, and
modeled after the
Ayvan-e
Kasra of Ctesiphon, Iraq, as well as the
Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. The...
-
Ilkhanate era. The
point of
pride for the
building was that its
vaulted ayvan was
larger than the
famous historic vault of Khosrow/Kisra, the Taq Kisra...
- said to be the
largest mosque in the sub-continent, and
modeled after the
Ayvan-e
Kasra of Ctesiphon, Iraq, as well as the
Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. The...
- semi-circular flat dome. The deep
niches on the
walls make the room look wider. The
ayvan (5.5x5.5 m) is
located on the west side of the madrasa, and the
mihrab is...
