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Haji Piyada Mosque ḤĀJI PIĀDA or Noh Gonbad Mosque (Persian: مسجد نُهگنبد "Mosque of Nine Cupolas"), a Samanid-style building in Balkh province of northern Afghanistan. Built in the ninth century, it is thought to be the earliest Islamic building in the country.[1]
It measures 20 by 20 meters. The outside walls are of mud-brick construction. The interior is divided into nine bays, each originally covered by a dome. The columns and the arches that divide the bays are exquisitely decorated in deeply carved stucco, depicting a wide wariety of design, stylistically coparable to Abbasid decoration in Mesopotamia.[2]
The site was listed on the World Monuments Fund's 2006 World Monuments Watch list of 100 Most Endangered Sites.[3]
References
- ^ [City of Balkh (antique Bactria), UNESCO website http://whc.unesco.org/pg_friendly_email.cfm?cid=326&id=1928&]
- ^ Archaeological gazetteer of Afghanistan (Title in French: Catalogue des sites archeologiques d'Afghanistan), Warwick Ball, Volume I & II, Editions Recherche sur les civilisations, Paris, 1982.
- ^ World Monuments Fund: World Monuments Watch 1996-2006. – Retrieved on 12 November 2008.
Abdul Rahman Mosque • Friday Mosque of Herat • Green Mosque (Balkh) • Haji Piyada (Noh Gonbad) • Id Gah Mosque • Khost Mosque • Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine • Lashkar Gah Mosque • Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed • Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet • Pul-e Khishti Mosque • Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque • Shrine of Hazrat Ali
Category – Islam in Afghanistan – Mosques by country
Categories:- Mosques in Afghanistan
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