Gonbad-e Qābus
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A single brick tower is all that remains of Jorjan. Gonbad-e Qābus, 53 metres tall and built in AD 1006 for the Ziyarid ruler and man of letters Qābus Ibn Voshmgir, tapers as a geometric cylinder of unglazed fired brick to a conical roof — the mathematics of the early Muslim world made visible. Its innovations echoed through sacred building in Iran, Anatolia and Central Asia. The tower was inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage in 2012.
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