Masjed-e-Jomeh - The Dais of
Omar
The purpose of this building is not authoritatively known, but tradition has it that it was a school. This
hall with it's eighteen pillars was built during the reign of Qutb Al-Din Mahmoud Al-Muzaffar, one of two brothers
who fought for control of Isfahan during the mid fourteenth century following the fall of the Sheikh
Abu Ishaq Inju. His father, whom he blinded, had married him to the daughter of the Sheikh,
Soltan Bakht Agha. She does not appear to have taken kindly to the arrangement and
attempted to betray the city to Qutb Al-Din's brother, Jalal al-Din. Her treachery was
discovered and she was executed, but when Jalal Al-Din eventually took the city he built her a splendid monument.
The area is also interesting because it contains inscriptions and some restoration dating from the Afghani interregnum of Ashraf, which is otherwise
lacking in any architectural evidence in the city.
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Courtyard.
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29-January-95
