Jameh Mosque of Kashan
The Jāmeh Mosque of Kashan is a Shi'ite Friday mosque, located in Kashan, in the province of Isfahan, Iran.
The mosque is the oldest structure in Kashan and it was added to the Iran National Heritage List on 20 June 1936, administered by the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran.
Overview
The mosque was built on the site of the 7th-century Zoroastrian fire temple that existed before the Arab conquest of Iran.The plan of the mosque is simple. There is a howz in the sahn in front of the iwan, which leads to the inner space of the dome and also two shabestans at grade of the courtyard and a winter shabestan below the surface of the courtyard. The large old mihrab-like minaret seems to belongs to the Seljuk era. It has an exquisite stucco, on which there are verses from Quran about the virtue of Friday prayer. It seems that this large mihrab was destroyed intentionally because of its false direction of qibla. Instead of this mihrab a smaller one has been built in the true direction of qibla during the reign of Tahmasp I. Its only brick minaret is located in its southeastern corner. On the bottom part of the minaret, there is a Kufic inscription made by embossed brick. On the inscription, it is mentioned the construction date of the minaret, which is 1074 CE, making it the third oldest minaret in Iran, which has an inscription.
In the book Merat ol-Boldan, the mosque is described as follows:
The mosque was extensively renovated in 2024.