Vakil Mosque
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- Best time to go
- March–May, October–November
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
The Vakil Mosque in Shiraz was built in the 1770s under Karim Khan Zand, the regent who made the city his capital, and forms part of a wider complex that includes the Vakil Bazaar and bathhouse. Its most striking feature is the night prayer hall, whose vaulted ceiling rests on forty-eight spiral-fluted stone columns. Pink-toned haft-rangi tiles decorated with flowers cover the portal and mihrab, giving the interior a soft, distinctive colouring. The mosque exemplifies the refined architecture of the short-lived Zand dynasty.
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