Guess the type of architecture!
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Topic: Guess the type of architecture!
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Subject: Guess the type of architecture!
Date 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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Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 14:14
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no guess?!! -------------
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Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 14:28
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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? ------------- |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 14:43
Excellent guess!  but not Indian!-------------
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Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 14:57
Well if you look at it in a certain light, it could appear, maybe, Malian/Ethiopian! 
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Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 15:35
Your first guess was closer!  -------------
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Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 15:49
And more serious  ------------- |
Posted By: Akolouthos
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 17:59
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Khwarizmian? -Akolouthos |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 18:40
No! This is a Khwarizmian mosque:
 Friday Mosque of Forumad -------------
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Posted By: Slayertplsko
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 19:16
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Pakistani??
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Posted By: Suren
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 19:21
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It looks like a cheap Indian style with a Portuguese touch! Here is a more sophisticated Indian/Pakistani Style.  ------------- Anfører |
Posted By: Akolouthos
Date Posted: 06-Jun-2009 at 19:27
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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? -Akolouthos |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 07-Jun-2009 at 12:57
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That is Rangooni Mosque, built by some Burmese immigrants in the southwest of Iran, near the Iran-Iraq border. -------------
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Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 07-Jun-2009 at 17:11
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Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 07-Jun-2009 at 18:50
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and I replied: -------------
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Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 08-Jun-2009 at 02:56
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Oh! I thought you were referring to the India being an excellent guess, but not quite correct. My mistake
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Posted By: malizai_
Date Posted: 08-Jun-2009 at 02:59
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The Habashis? ------------- |