Barda Mausoleum
| Bərdə türbəsi | |
 | |
| Location | Barda, Azerbaijan |
|---|---|
| Designer | Ahmad Nakhchivani |
| Type | Mausoleum |
| Completion date | 1322 |
Barda Mausoleum (Azerbaijani: Bərdə türbəsi) – is located in Barda, Azerbaijan. It is one of the rear monuments which reached us safely. It is located in a small square-shaped territory surrounded with a cob wall.
Architecture
The mausoleum consists of a 10 m diameter cylinder, with a 14 m of height (till the upper layer of a cupola). It also consists of an underground sepulcher and inner decahedron cell with exits. Structure of the inner space of its aerial part is very interesting. Its lower part is a cylinder that becomes a decahedron with 8,7 meters high niches at a height of 2 meters. At the upper part the decahedron becomes a circle.[1]
The mausoleum was built of burnt and green-blue colored glazed bricks, which makes the word “Allah” for more than 200 times.
Like in Garabaghlar Mausoleum, unglazed red facing bricks of this mausoleum are laid horizontally, but green-blue glazed bricks – vertically.
Affluently decorated portals and the main architectural and compositional accents of the mausoleum should also be noted.
References
- ↑ К.М. Мамед-заде (1983). Строительное Искусство Азербайджана( с древнейших времен до XIX в.). Baku: Элм.
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Coordinates: 40°22′59″N 47°07′40″E / 40.3831°N 47.1278°E