Another chapter in the restoration of the historical mosque of Adina Raqqa
According to the Arya Heritage report, citing the public relations of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of South Khorasan, Sidamir Soleimani Rabati said: In recent years, with the allocation of national and provincial funds, the restoration, strengthening and restoration of the mosque had been done, and this year, with the allocation of 4 billion Rials, The organization and strengthening of the west side of the mosque has been completed.
The person in charge of cultural heritage, tourism and handicrafts of Beshrouye city said: Raqqa village is located in Arsk district of Beshroe city, 15 kilometers west of Beshroe city. This village was one of the famous settlements of Beshroe in the Islamic era, which has important buildings and historical monuments, such as Alireza and Mohammad Forough gardens. Nasiraei, Dokhtar Castle, historical mills of Forough, Dehne and Ali Abad, the old Raqqa plantain tree are located in this village and around it.
Regarding the references of historians and travel writers, Soleimani Rabati said: Nasser Khosrow Qabadiani, an Iranian traveler and traveler (394 AH-481 AH) is the first person who refers to the existence of the settlement of Raqqa and its Adina Mosque with this interpretation:When we came twelve farsangs from Tabas, there was a town called Raqqa. It had running water, and it has crops, gardens, trees, ramparts, Adina Mosque, and all the fields.
In connection with this historical mosque, he added: the current four-porch mosque cannot be the same mosque that Nasser Khosrow mentioned in his travelogue, because the different parts of the mosque, including the porches, the type of arches used to cover the nave and the porches show that they have changed in later periods. And there have been changes that the architectural style of the Middle Ages of Islam is a clear characteristic of this building. However, in some parts of the building, especially the western porch and the nave, signs of early Islamic architecture can be seen, although there is no doubt about the actual location of the mosque mentioned by Nasser Khosrow with the current mosque.
The person in charge of cultural heritage, tourism and handicrafts of Beshroi city acknowledged the characteristics of the building: the current building of the mosque consists of a courtyard with four porches on its different sides, and the materials used in the construction of the mosque from the beginning to the later periods were raw clay, which seems It is found that the foundation of the building was created on a bed of rubble stone, the exterior is made of straw mortar and the interior facade is made of a type of mortar called Khom Ahek. Except for the qibla porch, the rest of the porches are covered with a pointed gable arch and the qibla porch with a kind of vertical oval arch. The type of arch in the main porch is in the form of two large arched arches at the beginning and at the end, and there is a round arch in the middle. But the other covering of the porches is with the arch.
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