A shabestan or shabistan (Persian: شبستان; Old Persian xšapā.stāna) is an underground space that can be usually found in traditional architecture of mosques, houses, and schools in ancient Iran.
These spaces were usually used during summers and could be ventilated by windcatchers and qanats.
During the Sasanian Empire and the subsequent Islamic periods, "shabestan" also referred to inner sanctums of the shahs where their concubines resided. Later these structures came to be called زنانهzanāneh (feminine residence), اندرونیandaruni (inner private zone) and حرمharam (from Arabic harem).[1]
A shabestan or shabistan (Persian: شبستان; Old Persian xšapā.stāna) is an underground space that can be usually found in traditional architecture of mosques...
Entrance door ceiling Facade of entrance arcade Shabestan (prayer hall) Shabestan pillars Shabestan ceiling tile work View of northern Iwan from prayer...
in architectural decorations. The shabestan of this mosque is one of the biggest shabestans in Isfahan. The shabestan, portal, iwan and outer surface of...
Tabriz and the Constitutional House of Tabriz. Recovery of main Shabestan. Main Shabestan after recovery. scholars are discussing in Jameh Mosque of Tabriz...
External View View of courtyard from the top of minar Summer Shabestan Winter Shabestan Mihrab Minar Mihrab Courtyard Courtyard Ornaments Media related...
"Kurdistan governorate". Shabestan.ir. Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013. "Lorestan governorate". Shabestan.ir. Archived from...
rule in 1322. This building consists of a shabestan, portico, large brick dome, the structure beside shabestan and ten small arches along with one large...
October 2019 Knowing dynasty of Seyyed Ali Khamenei (Iran's supreme leader) shabestan.ir Retrieved 21 September 2019 "About The Author -- Ayatollah Sayyid Ali...
2011. "Central mosque of Moscow will be inaugurated in 23rd September". Shabestan News Agency. 19 September 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2015. Media related...
richest men in Isfahan. The Shabestan of this mosque is one of the most beautiful Shabestans in Isfahan. This Shabestan has stone pillars with marble...
Boragh /Buraqpassed from this (Nodbeh) Wall. There is an Iwan and Shabestan. Shabestan is an underground space that can be usually found in the traditional...
The word Jarchi means herald in Azeri and Persian. The mosque has a shabestan and is located in the Great Bazaar (Bazaar-e-Bozorg) of Isfahan. Decorations...
Retrieved 9 February 2019. "کدام کشورها، نظام جمهوری اسلامی دارند؟". Shabestan News Agency. Archived from the original on Feb 10, 2019. Retrieved 9 February...
era. The shabestan of the mosque is behind the western iwan. There are 20 stone columns with the height of 2 m in the shabestan. The shabestan had been...
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از ۱۲ استاد برجسته حوزه و دانشگاه در ساخت برنامه زندگی پس از زندگی". Shabestan. 2 July 2020. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 29...
(1117 a.d.) A wall opposite the shabestan of Umayyad Mosque in Damascus (1109 a.d.) Like other Seljukid buildings, shabestan has no tile decoration. This...
V was the son of Khosrau II. Since his father was said to have had a shabestan with over 3,000 concubines, it is not known if one of these concubines...
Jameh Mosque of Tehran is the oldest mosque in Tehran, with its oldest Shabestan, more than a thousand years old, and is also known as the Atiq Mosque...