Jame'h Mosque of Sanandaj (Dar Al Ehsan Mosque)

The Jām'eh mosque in Sanandaj, known as the "Dar Al Ehsān" mosque, is located in the old city center (Kurdistān region) and its construction dates back to the qajara era, between the 1226 and the 1232 of the lunar Hijra.

There are testimonies according to which this mosque was built on the remains of a previous one dating from the Safavid period that had been destroyed and the two minarets of the current one were placed in place of the tall ones of the previous building.

The Darolehsān mosque which is mostly the combination of the two elements of the mosque and the madrasa, is considered one of the most magnificent examples of Iranian-Islamic architecture and its architecture is influenced by the style of Esfahān with an accent on the local one.

It consists of two Iwan, two minarets that are visible from almost all points of the city, a courtyard in the center with a basin whose water was procured by a Qanat, 12 rooms around the courtyard for religious science students, the madrasa, the morgue, a large one Shabestan with 24 columns and capitals decorated with parts of the Koran.

The materials used in the construction of this historic work are mostly stone in the foundation, the floor, the wainscots and even the columns, while the decorations made use of bricks with or without enamel, stone, glazed majolica and wood.

In this mosque it is possible to admire noteworthy ornaments such as: encaustic tiles, carved marbles, stucco, rough and enamelled bricks, etc.

In addition to the Koranic verses, in the large surface of the facades, of the columns and of the internal and external walls, as in an epigraph, there are also verses by famous Iranian poets, Arabic poems, Hadith, expressions in Arabic and donations from the mosque and the madrasa, many government edicts with commemorative contents, public laws, particular political and cultural topics, etc.