Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque

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Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque ()Also transliterated as Lotfallah, Lotf Allah, Lutfullah, Lutfallah, Lutf Allah is one of the masterpieces of Iranian architecture that was built during the Safavid Empire, standing on the eastern side of Naqsh-i Jahan Square, Esfahan, Iran. Construction of the mosque started in 1603 and was finished in 1619. It was built by the chief architect Mohammadreza Isfahani, during the reign of Shah Abbas I of Persia. On the advice of Arthur Upham Pope, Reza Shah Pahlavi had the mosque rebuilt and repaired in the 1920s. Read more on Wikipedia

type: religious building
date from: 1619

Source: en.wikipedia.org