Barda Mausoleum

Barda Mausoleum
Bərdə türbəsi
Location Barda, Azerbaijan
Designer Ahmad Nakhchivani
Type Mausoleum
Completion date 1322

Barda Mausoleum (Azerbaijani: Bərdə türbəsi) – is located in Barda, Azerbaijan. It is one of the rear monuments which reached us safely. It is located in a small square-shaped territory surrounded with a cob wall.

Architecture

The mausoleum consists of a 10 m diameter cylinder, with a 14 m of height (till the upper layer of a cupola). It also consists of an underground sepulcher and inner decahedron cell with exits. Structure of the inner space of its aerial part is very interesting. Its lower part is a cylinder that becomes a decahedron with 8,7 meters high niches at a height of 2 meters. At the upper part the decahedron becomes a circle.[1]

The mausoleum was built of burnt and green-blue colored glazed bricks, which makes the word “Allah” for more than 200 times.

Like in Garabaghlar Mausoleum, unglazed red facing bricks of this mausoleum are laid horizontally, but green-blue glazed bricks – vertically.

Affluently decorated portals and the main architectural and compositional accents of the mausoleum should also be noted.

References

  1. ↑ К.М. Мамед-заде (1983). Строительное Искусство Азербайджана( с древнейших времен до XIX в.). Baku: Элм.

Coordinates: 40°22′59″N 47°07′40″E / 40.3831°N 47.1278°E / 40.3831; 47.1278

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