Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, June 5
The images published on social networks show that the campus area of the Arg-Alishah Tabriz is in unfavorable conditions.
The majority of social networking users by publishing these pictures, write:
The Arg Ali-Shah of Tabriz is fully targeted by the mass mafia attack and Iranian regime destroys historical monuments of South Azerbaijan.
The Arg Ali-Shah is believed to have been the largest brick structure ever built which is located in South Azerbaijan. It was built in the Il-Khanid period by Ali Shah, the Turkish vizier during the reign of Oljeitu and Abu Sa’id.
Ali Shah was not only its patron but may also have been the designer of its plan.
The Arg Ali-Shah can be considered a courtyard mosque and is believed to have had a traditional layout, organized around four Iwan.
Uniquely, rather than having an additional domed structure to serve as the mosque building, the Mihrab is housed in a proportionately majestic Iwan, removing the need for a separate mosque structure.
Oriented towards Qibla, the Arg Ali-Shah was organized around a marble-paved rectangular courtyard that was 286 meters wide by 229 meters long. Entered through the Pishtaq centered on the northern wall, it had an Iwan at the center of the west and east sides and the large Iwan at the center of the southernmost wall, towards the Qibla. The mihrab, visible at the center of the only extant Qibla wall, is articulated by three relieving arches above it. On either side of the Mihrab are two windows with sills located very high above ground level.
It should be noted that the Mosalla foundation has been responsible for the construction of Mosalla and destruction of the Arg Ali-Shah of South Azerbaijan.
