Jām'eh Mosque of Sāveh
The Jām'eh mosque in Sāveh is located in the city of the same name (Markazi region). The date of construction of this historic mosque has not been identified accurately but the oldest object found in this complex consists of epigraph written in the fourth century of the lunar Hegira, so this mosque is at least 1000 years old.
It as a historical-religious monument built entirely in adobe e fango, unique of its kind, from an architectural and pictorial point of view, presents noteworthy tile work and decorations and is a memory of three historical conjunctions (pre-Islamic, the centuries of early Islam, and the Safavid period).
This mosque, which has undergone many changes throughout its history and suffered serious damage during the attack by the Mongols, consists of a courtyard and a dome to the south, from two Iwan tall and majestic, from a minaret, from some beautiful brick prayer hall, from numerous ancients mihrab with Kufic calligraphy and two from the Safavid period with calligraphy sols.
La Gonbad-Khaneh (main prayer hall covered by the dome) of this mosque is the oldest part of the building in which there is a mihrab with beautiful stucco work with images of leaves, flowers, shrubs, drawings iSlim and calligraphies related to the Safavid period.
Outside the mosque there is a magnificent brick minaret dating back to the Seljuq era and which preserves the earliest epigraph, a flight of spiral staircases which is adorned with various designs and in relief allows access to the top of the minaret.
In the two corners of the south wing there is a construction in adobe and cross-shaped mud that testifies to the presence of a temple of fire in the pre-Islamic era. The building of this mosque must be considered part of an architectural complex comprising religious, cultural and economic buildings, and no doubt traces of the ruins of other parts can be found nearby and around it.
A building with such magnificence and grandeur certainly could not be without a connection that linked it with adjacent buildings such as the cistern, the hammam, the caravanserai and the main axis of the bazaar.
