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    Posted: 16-May-2009 at 13:34
In a southern city of Iran there is a historical mosque which has been changed to a museum, I think this is a difficult question, but do you think who built this mosque?
 
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  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 14:14
no guess?!!
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  Quote Knights Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 14:28
Oh at the (very high) risk of making a fool out of myself, I will have a stab in the dark. South-East Asian architects? Wacky, I know.

EDIT: Maybe Indian?


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  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 14:43
Excellent guess! Clap but not Indian!
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  Quote Knights Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 14:57
Well if you look at it in a certain light, it could appear, maybe, Malian/Ethiopian! Smile
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  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 15:35
Your first guess was closer! Ermm
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  Quote Knights Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 15:49
And more serious LOL
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  Quote Akolouthos Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 17:59
Khwarizmian?

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  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 18:40
No! This is a Khwarizmian mosque:
 
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  Quote Slayertplsko Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 19:16
Pakistani??
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  Quote Suren Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 19:21
It looks like a cheap Indian style with a Portuguese touch!

Here is a more sophisticated Indian/Pakistani Style.



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  Quote Akolouthos Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 19:27
Gotcha, Cyrus. I thought if anyone in the region was likely not to use the Arabic/Turkish arch throughout, it would be the Khwarizmians. I would guess that my dating was too early, then. My next guess then would be someone influenced by European forms of architecture. Persian shahs in the 18th-19th century? Or am I way off?

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  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-Jun-2009 at 12:57
That is Rangooni Mosque, built by some Burmese immigrants in the southwest of Iran, near the Iran-Iraq border.
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  Quote Knights Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-Jun-2009 at 17:11
Originally posted by Cyrus

Burmese immigrants
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I will have a stab in the dark. South-East Asian architects? Wacky, I know.


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  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-Jun-2009 at 18:50

and I replied:

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  Quote Knights Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08-Jun-2009 at 02:56
Oh! I thought you were referring to the India being an excellent guess, but not quite correct. My mistake Smile
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The Habashis?
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