Jām'eh Shushtar Mosque
The Jām'eh mosque in Shushtar is located in the homonymous city (Khuzestān region). This historic building dates back to the beginnings of Islam and was erected in the 254 year of the lunar Hegira and completed in the following years.
The original building of the mosque was built in the Arab and combined style Sassanid with a Shabestan equipped with a wooden beamed ceiling until the year 1088 in the Safavid period due to the ruin of the beams, it was covered with brick arches on bases composed of pieces of stone and on these foundations stands the current building of the mosque; most of the remains belong to the Safavid period, to the later one and to the original construction, except the planimetry, what is left of the inscription of a part of the wall adjacent to the qibla and the eastern one between goldasteh, the minaret and this same that was added to the original building in the eighth century of the lunar Hegira, there is nothing left.
Lo Shabestan It has 28 stone columns and between the columns there are domed ceilings. In this prayer room there is a minbar wood and inscriptions in characters soils, kufic e nasta'liq. Even the outer walls have polished stone columns embellished by a high Roman arch.
The remains of the beautiful minaret until the mid-twelfth century of the lunar Hegira were equal to 26 meters; today there are only 16 left and its historical inscription was placed on a stone table on top of the minaret.
It has a cylindrical trunk decorated with brick work and among these you can see drawings with turquoise majolica of the words "Allah", "Mohammad" and "Ali". At the center of the minaret is an auction around which the stairs were going.
Each Abbasid caliph who carried out work in the mosque placed an inscription and many government orders and numerous Hadith They were carved or affixed to the wall in the form of calligraphic and rock inscriptions, and at present only 19 remained, as many were lost during repairs.
The mosque has a large courtyard, thick and solid columns with a diameter of over one and a half meters and two mihrab: one inside the building for the cold seasons of the year and the other outside for the hot seasons.
This mosque has a minbar with 17 steps-in the number of rakaat, (unity that constitutes the Islamic prayer) that every Muslim during the day must recite-ancient of 700 years; in the right side of the pulpit the writings were carved into the table in Cufic calligraphy.
People because of the great faith that he puts in this pulpit, in particular days of the year by lighting the candles and expressing a wish makes a vow.
The Jām'eh mosque in the past had a large pool that was filled by an underground channel that received water from the Daryun River; behind it there was also a hammam that had been donated to the mosque.
The Jām'eh mosque of Shushtar is considered the second oldest Friday mosque in Iran after that of Yazd and one of the most worth visiting in the whole country.
