The Jāmeh Mosque of Nishapur (Persian: مسجد جامع نیشابور, romanized: Masjed-e-Jāmeh Neyshābur; Arabic: الجامع الكبير نيسابور) is a Shi'ite Friday mosque (jāmeh) located in Nishapur, in the province of Razavi Khorasan, Iran. The mosque was founded by Pahlavan Ali Karkhi in 1493 CE during the rule of Husayn Bayqarah of the Timurid dynasty, and was rebuilt during the reign of Abbas the Great, the Safavid Shah of Persia. The mosque was added to the Iran National Heritage List on 12 November 1938, administered by the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran.
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Shia Islam in Iran List of mosques in Iran
References
External links Media related to Jameh Mosque of Nishapur at Wikimedia Commons
"Samanids: History". Islamic Ceramics: ashmolean.org. Archived from the original on August 18, 2011.



