Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [14]

Dancing light ... 

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [13]

Light is dancing over the colorful tiles(A detailed view of picture no. 11 of these series).

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [12]

You wonder where you are standing, so you look up to find a clue and this is your sky.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [11]

The source of light from previous post and a partial view of the dome.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [10]

The main room of the mosque, which is under the elegant dome in thfirst picture of the series.
The effect of light on the glazed tiles is nothing that can be expressed in pictures.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [9]

Where you come from; looking back at the entrance door from inside.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [8]

The second hand of the L-shaped entryway which leads to the main room. The more you go nearer to the center of the mosque the more yo feel detached from daily routines.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [7]

The entryway of the mosque. The dark ambience makes you ready to enter the main room of the mosque.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [4]

Sorry, I don't know why the fourth one was not posted, si I post it again. This picture shows what you can see in the left side of the entrance porch of Sheikh-Lotfollah Mosque. One of the entranses of the great bazaar of isfahan is seen in the picture too.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [6]

Looking upward just before entering the entryway. I have posted a detail of the muqarnas (the stalactite-like geometric forms) here.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [5]

A closer look at the tile work. They are called 'seven-color" (haft-rang) tiles. Each color on the tile is baked separately.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [3]

Upward view just before the entrance porch. The dome makes a world inside the mosque within the outside world, a sky under the sky, giving you the sense of being in the world.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [2]

A closer view to the mosque with another perspective and a little bit more detail.

Sheikh-Lofollah Mosque: Outside to inside [1]

Sheikh-Lotfollah is a small mosque in the Naqsh-e-Jahan grand square in Isfahan. It's like a prayers room. However the architecture of the mosque is extraordinary. The colors and the proportions of the mosque, specially the proportions of the dome are unique. I'll post a series of pictures showing the rout from outside of the mosque to inside.

Weekly bazaar [5]

The plastic toys! Children are carefuly searching to find what they are looking for. On the opposite side was the nuts seller. 

Weekly bazaar [4]

A younger boy selling different kinds of apetizers and pickles.

Weekly bazaar [3]

Browsing through my old photos I noticed this picture from the same theme as yesterday. I like the friendly gesture in his face. I wonder if he really is as old as he looks.

Just a flower

 

Weekly bazaar [2]

Weekly bazaar

A woman selling her products in a weekly bazaar in Chaboksar. I took this picture 3 years ago with my first digital camera. 

Dancing-Minaret

This is a closer view of the minaret from my previous post. The special thing about these two minarets is that if one of them is shaken (for example if someone goes inside it and tries to shake it) the movement will shake the other one as well. This is really strange and people come to see the phenomena on daily on special hours. A masonary building dating back from 600 years ago which its minarets still dance some 10 times a day.
Nobody knows how the builders managed to do this but it's said that they made a dancing building in order to cope with earthqauke which is a very common thing in the region. 

Shadows in perspective

Wolf's yesterday picture inspired me to post this photo of Menar-Jonban (verbally meaning 'Dancing-Minaret') here. Menar-Jonban is in Isfahan. 

Under the rain

While walking in a rural lane I founfd that the rain shows us more things that otherwise were not easy to see. I found hundreds of spider webs! The architect is present too. 

Flowers

Going back to my previous theme, here I'm posting one of my old photos of beautiful flowers.
 

Saveh Jame-Mosque

Today I'm into posting pictures from this mosque! This is a wider internal view of the porch in my two last posts. Showing how the previous decorations were covered by the newer finishing. You can see a very brief view of the minaret of the mosque in the right side of the picture.
The shadows are very interesting too.