Lonban Mosque

Lonban mosque
Religion
Affiliation	Shia Islam
Province	Isfahan
Location
Location	Lonban quarter
Municipality	Isfahan
Country	Iran
Shown within Iran
Geographic coordinates	32.651111°N 51.651944°E / 32.651111; 51.651944
Architecture
Type	Mosque
Style	Isfahani

Lonban (Persian: لنبان), one of the oldest quarters of Isfahan, is famous for its mosque. Its current structure is rebuilt in the contemporary era, but some of the plaster works and paintings are from the Safavid age. Some of the inscriptions on the portal are the art works of Mohammad Reza Emami. Besides there is an extraordinary wooden minbar which is one of the most exquisite artworks from the time of the Safavid dynasty.^[1]

Aboutorab Esfahani, the important calligrapher of the Safavid era, has been buried in this mosque.^[2]

References

1. Hosseyn Yaghoubi (1383). Arash Beheshti (ed.). Rāhnamā ye Safar be Ostān e Esfāhān(Travel Guide for the Province Isfahan) (in Persian). Rouzane. p. 103. ISBN 964-334-218-2.
2. Ḥabībollāh Fażāʾelī (1971–72), Aṭlas-e Ḫaṭṭ : Taḥqīq dar Ḫuṭūṭ-e Islāmī [The researches of the Islamic scripts] (in Persian), Isfahan, pp. 541–542