Ανεγερμένο στη διάρκεια 18 ετών (1611-1629) το Τζαμί του Σάχη στην ιρανική αυτοκρατορρική πρωτεύουσα των Σαφεβιδών είναι η ιρανική 'απάντηση' στο Οθωμανικό Μπλε Τζαμί (Σουλτάν Αχμέτ) της Σταμπούλ το οποίο άρχισε να κτίζεται το 1609 κι εγκαινιάστηκε το 1617. Περισσότερα: Masjed-e Šāh (Masjed-e Jadid-e ʿAbbāsi; renamed Masjed-e Emām after the Revolution of 1978-79). This mosque marked the climax of building campaigns that transformed Isfahan into the new Safavid capital city. Built between 1020/1611 and 1039/1630-31, the massive mosque (some 19,000 square meters in area) was positioned at the southern end of the Meydān-e Naqš-e Jahān. In terms of energizing urban spaces, the positioning of the mosque at the southern end was calculated to ensure a steady flow of traffic, for prayer, through the Meydān, thus helping to redirect business and social life away from the Saljuq Meydān-e Kohna to this new urban center. The mosque stood directly across from the monumental royal Qay-ṣariya bazaar. Since it was intended to serve as the congregational mosque of the new capital city, its placement formed a visual axis between two significant facets of public life, commerce and religion. That these were further placed under and braided with Safavid protection and patronage could not have been missed for this longitudinal axis intersected with the latitudinal link between the icons of imperial authority and justice, the ʿĀli Qāpu Palace on the one hand, and of the personal piety and source of legitimacy of Safavid kingship, embodied in the Shaikh Loṭf-Allāh Mosque on the other. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/isfahan-x3-mosques Επίσης: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Τζαμί_του_Σάχη https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мечеть_Имама https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/مسجد_شاه_(اصفهان) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Mosque_(Isfahan) http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/Imam_Mosque.htm https://archnet.org/sites/1622