Imamzadeh (Ganja)
| İmamzadə türbəsi | |
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| Location | Ganja, Azerbaijan |
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| Type | Mausoleum |
Imamzadeh Mausoleum or Goy Imam Mosque (Azerbaijani: İmamzadə türbəsi) - is located 7 km northward to Ganja. It consists of a complex including walls with entrances, small mosques and funerary monuments.[1]
Architectural features
The mausoleum is the major monument of the complex. This mausoleum shows how many mausoleums acquired cultic architectural features, losing their features of memorial monuments in the 16th-19th centuries. The mausoleum belongs to tower-cupola types of buildings. As A. Salamzadeh says, a central kernel of the mausoleum and its tower-shaped part can be dated back to the 14th century or the beginning of the 15th century. It is also assumed that volume of the tower-shaped part of the monument reminds of constructions of Central Asia, appeared in the early 15th century. Inscriptions written with kufi script and made of glazed plates of the monuments were ornamentations of the mausoleums of Central Asia. For instance, the mausoleum of Gur-e Amir in Samarkand.
A two-storeyed arch shaped the extension of the mausoleum, surrounding the central kernel from three sides, with a portal from the eastern part. This arch dates from the 17th century. A margin of lancet arches with rectangular frames is a peculiar feature of the extension. The mausoleum is built of square bricks.
Currently, the mausoleum is under reconstruction. More than 10,000 sq. meters of its territory is covered with asphalt and a 4,000,400 linear meter territory is covered with colorful sidewalk tiles.[2]
References
- ↑ К.М. Мамед-заде (1983). Строительное Искусство Азербайджана( с древнейших времен до XIX в.). Baku: Элм. p. 234.
- ↑ "İlham Əliyev Gəncədə “İmamzadə” dini kompleksində tikinti-bərpa işlərinin gedişi ilə tanış olmuşdur". president.az.
Coordinates: 40°42′54″N 46°25′29″E / 40.7151°N 46.4246°E