Pir Bakran mausoleum

Pir Bakran mausoleum
Religion
District	Pir Bakran District
Province	Isfahan Province
Location
Location	Pir Bakran, Iran
Municipality	Pir Bakran
Shown within Iran
Geographic coordinates	32.468889°N 51.557776°E / 32.468889; 51.557776
Architecture
Type	Mausoleum
Style	Azeri
Minaret(s)	0

The Pir Bakran mausoleum (Persian: آرامگاه پیربکران) is a historical mausoleum in Pir Bakran, the capital of Pir Bakran District. The mausoleum dates back to the Ilkhanid era. The names of The Rashidun Caliphs on its inscriptions show that the building belongs the early times of the conversion of mongols to islam and they were still sunnite. The courtyard of the mausoleum is surrounded by walls, small iwans and the arched portals of the main iwan and decorated by some inscriptions with Kufic scripts and stuccoes with the form of flowers and bushes, which are the works of Mohammad Naghash. Mohammad ebn-e Bakran's grave is located behind the courtyard. On the northern side of it, there's a small closed room, which was probably his teaching place. The mausoleum is decorated with stuccoes and tiles.^[1]

References

1. Yaghoubi, Hosseyn (2004). Arash, Beheshti (ed.). Rāhnamā ye Safar be Ostān e Esfāhān [Travel Guide for the Province Isfahan] (in Persian). Rouzane. p. 144. ISBN 964-334-218-2.

Further reading

• Grbanovic, Ana Marija (2021). "Lost and Found: The Ilkhanid Tiles of the Pir-i Bakran Mausoleum (Linjan, Isfahan)". Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies: 1–20. doi:10.1080/05786967.2021.1927141.