The Dashti Mosque (Persian: مسجد دشتی; Arabic: مسجد دشتي), also known as the Dashti Dome, is a Shi'itemosque, located in the Dashti village, approximately 18 kilometres (11mi) from Esfahan, in the province of Isfahan, Iran.
The mosque is located in southern shore of Zayandeh Rood and its design is similar to Azarin and Ka’aj mosques. The mosque includes a 14-square-metre (150sqft) prayer room within a balcony that is 10 metres (33ft) wide and 5.4 metres (18ft) deep. The square shaped prayer room has three arched gateway in north, east and west sides and also a bricked mihrab in south side. The base of dome also is square shaped within eight big arches in down part and sixteen windows in up part. There had been some minarets in northern corners of the mosque which were subsequently destroyed.[1]
The mosque is one of the most famous structures of the Ilkhanid era. There is no inscription in or on the mosque, on which the construction year and the architect's name has been mentioned.[2]
↑Yaghoubi, Hosseyn (2004). Beheshti, Arash (ed.). Rāhnamā ye Safar be Ostān e Esfāhān[Travel Guide for the Province Isfahan] (in Persian). Rouzane. p.146. ISBN964-334-218-2.
