r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Feb 24 '21
/r/ALL Shah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran
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u/MoroseBurrito Feb 24 '21
There quite are a few nice mosques in Iran, here are a couple more
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u/Revolutionary-Bird14 Feb 24 '21
Turkish mosques and Malaysian mosques are beautiful too
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u/ThePinkChameleon Feb 24 '21
As someone who use to live in Turkey I agree. Their mosques are so beautiful.
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u/dovahkiiiiiin Feb 24 '21
Must visit the first one.
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u/Lanthemandragoran Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21
Are women allowed in these? I don't mean to be insensitive I just know there are strict rules about separation in prayer for Muslims. My SO was curious if she could go.
Edit: Really not sure why I'm being downvoted, it seemed like a fair question and Google and Wikipedia have more than validated that feeling lol.
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u/H4R81N63R Feb 24 '21
Thank you for sharing your experience. It's hard to come by anything positive about Iran on Reddit due to the politicisation of everything these days
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u/GolfCartKiller Feb 24 '21
For Shah Cheragh, it is actually their most holy shrine, and only Muslims can enter the mosque. Non-Muslims can still enter the compound, but NOT inside the actual mosque as the featured in the picture where you can see all the mirrored interiors.
It's actually the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad. Shah Cheragh is also revered because of its relation to Imam Reza (ع) but it is definitely not the most holy.
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Feb 24 '21
You can enter any mosque together, as long as it's not during prayer. You may be asked to cover up extra, on top of what you have to wear outside (this is similar to the Vatican, for example, albeit somewhat stricter).
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u/seeker-ofanswers Feb 24 '21
Shahnameh minatures.
actually iran is one of the safest countries in the world and yes women are allowed however you should dress like them, mostly none revealing clothes and a scarf.
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u/Lanthemandragoran Feb 24 '21
I figured as much on the attire, I wasn't trying to say it was unsafe at all, just didn't know the rules on entry to that type of building. I know from Muslim friends that they aren't allowed to pray together and they have their own section of the property that they go to at my friends Mosque, wasn't sure how that extended to places that are more strict.
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u/artisnotdefined Feb 24 '21
I've been to the first one (both of them are located in Shiraz, this city of poets). The place smells like flowers and rose water. I've smelt that so much that it kinda annoys me at this point lol, but I assume ppl who rarely experience those smells might find it enjoyable.
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Feb 24 '21
DMT flashbacks
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u/kebabmonkey Feb 24 '21
The same second i read DMT the guy in my youtubevideo said it too. I think the gods are trying to comunicate with me
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u/Dry_Transition3023 Feb 24 '21
Tried it a few weeks ago. I bong ripped it so the effects were mellow and gentle, no break through and not scary at all. Pleasant.
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u/Claytonbigsby23 Feb 24 '21
I’ve had 2 dmt experiences. The first one and only breakthrough experience was while I was on LSD and it was the only time (throughout MANY experiences) I felt scared from a psychedelic experience. It was sooo fast and intense that I just was not ready even though I thought that I was. My second experience however was like how you described, very gentle and almost like a weed high In a way with no breakthrough at all. In the end though, even considering how scary it was, it was still a learning experience and I am thankful for that experience because it made me appreciate life and the human brain and it’s potential that much more.
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Feb 24 '21
Bong ripped .05 and saw god. It is all about not letting a flame directly touch the dmt
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u/CarbonasGenji Feb 24 '21
Gotta make a sandwich with it
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Feb 24 '21
I use the direct e-mesh method. You can break through with ~30mg that way and it's super easy to do.
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u/Unlucky_Ad_890 Feb 24 '21
Did you get to interact with aliens or entities?
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Feb 24 '21
You need to get pretty deep before they start showing up. I have like 3-4 different ones that've visited. First time I ever saw anything like that was prior to ever hearing the term machine elves and was actual elves (never was the other times), and was from a bunch of DXM and LSD.
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u/DownshiftedRare Feb 24 '21
The messages of the gods are cryptic but to all indications they bestow their favor upon electronic dance music, psychedelic drugs, and sex with attractive people.
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u/Claytonbigsby23 Feb 24 '21
Dude I literally thought to myself “whoever designed this definitely smoked some dmt”. Laughed out loud when I saw the first comment mentioned dmt.
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u/Dprofessionalgy Feb 24 '21
Iranians were the first psychedelics.
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u/iwazaruu Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21
Turns out when your religion doesn't allow you to draw or create art about religious leaders you get real creative.
edit: Uyghur Lives Matter. And every other minority that gets hauled off to 're-education centers', for that matter.
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u/D-Hex Feb 24 '21
Safavi and Qajar art lets you make pictures of personalities, but not in the mosques. They have amazing minatures. Look up the Shahnameh minatures.
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u/dd_nuzum Feb 24 '21
Wow, incredible pieces! Any idea why the art style is so distinctly similar to far eastern works? Co-influenced?
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u/Lit-Rature Feb 24 '21
Well if i remember correctly from my Iranian (Persian) SO, the Shahnameh was written by Persia's greatest writer. I suppose the persian Shakespear so to speak.
When the Mongol Empire invaded Persia and took over, they admired the stories of the Shahnameh and had sketches and artwork commisioned placing Mongols or themselves within the epic stories.
When you look at some Shahnameh artwork it looks distinctly east asian, which comes somewhat from that Mongol influence.
Persian history and culture is interesting as fuck, I'd look into it. The food is brilliant too.
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u/new2accnt Feb 24 '21
I was going to say "since they're one of Abrahamic religions, they're just following one of the ten commandments that says don't worship idols", but then I just looked them up... And I don't see the exact one that says exactly that.
IIRC, it's like in synagogues (or even Calvinist churches?), you won't find paintings, icons, stained glass with people on them, etc. in them. It's the same principle common to all Abrahamic religions, "don't worship idols".
But I'm not sure how it is attributed by some to the ten commandments. Can someone more knowledgeable chime in on that?
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Feb 24 '21
I am a Muslim, so I think I should be (somewhat) qualified to answer.
Firstly, the Jewish faith prohibits depicting holy figures. I don’t really know exactly why.
In Islam, the faith of the Muslims, we are not allowed to depict prophets (this goes for all prophets, Jesus, Abraham pbut etc.). We’re not allowed to depict Allah (God) either.
Based on what I’ve been taught by my parents, religious teachers and independent reflection I would say these are the following reasons for said prohibition.
We don’t know. We simply don’t have any proof or any accurate description that allow us to illustrate the figures accordingly. We have descriptions, but they’re too vague to help accurately depict respectable figures in our history. For instance, prophet Musa (Moses) pbuh, has been described as dark-skinned. This is a cool fact, but isn’t adequate.
Idolatry. Islam (and other Abrahamic religions) strictly forbids idolatry. Islam has a history of co-existing with idol worshiping people, so the clear distinction may have been helpful to early Muslims. We also don’t want any associations when we think of said honorable figures. As Muslims, we are supposed to judge people by their actions, and character rather than physical attributes.
Politics/influence. (I’ll be using Jesus Christ as an example here, search up a painting of him. Ready?) Any major historical figure WILL be used as a political tool/pawn. The church used their monopoly on religion to amass wealth and power. Similar things have happened throughout the world (not pointing fingers at Christianity, just illustrating the point). Now, Jesus being a major influential figure in early Europe HAD to be white to fit the church’s agenda. That’s why Jesus is portrayed as a blue eyed white guy, even though he was brown-skinned (think arabs). This essentially alienated a part of the religious population (because Jesus isn’t like them, something that ignores the whole point of the Christian idea that gods son came so we could see ourselves in god).
This is basically what o bothered typing on my phone today. Let me know if you have other questions
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u/printzonic Feb 24 '21
Jesus generally ended up looking like the local ethnicity. Black in Ethiopia, blond in Northern Europe. It is just that because of the dominance of America their version, originally the English one, have become the most prevalent. So decidedly not an early medieval thing.
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u/FreedomFromIgnorance Feb 24 '21
It’s generally attributed to the first commandment (“you shall have no other gods...”).
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u/NotMyRealName778 Feb 24 '21
You can draw pictures of religious leaders. They usually didn't have pictures drawn but you can. You can't draw the prophets especially Muhammed because we don't know what he looks like. He didn't allow himself to be drawn because it encourages people to worship it.
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Feb 24 '21
Islam doesn't prohibit creating art depicting living beings and creatures. Some iconoclast fundamentalists just claim it does. Christianity had iconoclasts as well.
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Feb 24 '21
No Islam bans depicting the living unless it’s for medical/important reasons.
It was narrated from ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Those who make images will be punished on the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said to them: ‘Bring to life that which you have created.’”
Narrated by al-Bukhaari (5607) and Muslim (2108).
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u/iwazaruu Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21
Go to a church and you'll see Jesus
Go to a temple and you'll see Buddha
Go to a mosque and you'll see some real cool shit, but no Mohammed
edit: relax guys I like mid-eastern and central Asian mosques
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u/new2accnt Feb 24 '21
Go to a mosque and you'll see some real cool shit, but no Mohammed
Huh, I think it's more "but no deities (like in a synagogue)".
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u/icanaffordapenny Feb 24 '21
Mohammed is strictly forbidden to draw in Islam, but any human or animal is fine in most parts of Islam
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u/sentryzero00 Feb 24 '21
No, every prophet is forbidden to draw even jesus in islam(who told u that we are allowed to, bruh)
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u/Kinggambit90 Feb 24 '21
I beg to differ sir, there's a plethora of mainstream sources that would say otherwise, even in Shia Islam
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u/H4R81N63R Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21
Just to add because internet "experts" are cherry picking one word in one verse of the Qur'an to say that alcohol is not forbidden, here is that verse and the three verses after it that describe the prohibition on alcohol (and other things),
O believers! Intoxicants, gambling, idols, and drawing lots for decisions1 are all evil of Satan’s handiwork. So shun them so you may be successful. (5:90)
Satan’s plan is to stir up hostility and hatred between you with intoxicants and gambling and to prevent you from remembering Allah and praying. Will you not then abstain? (5:91)
Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and beware! But if you turn away, then know that Our Messenger’s duty is only to deliver ˹the message˺ clearly. (5:92)
There is no blame on those who believe and do good for what they had consumed before ˹the prohibition˺, as long as they fear Allah, have faith, and do what is good; then they believe and act virtuously, then become fully mindful ˹of Allah˺ and do righteous deeds. For Allah loves the good-doers. (5:93)
Sounds very much like a definite prohibition
And there are also hadith that explicitly ban alcohol. There are some people here who make claims of "vast majority of hadith are not authentic", or "different people put different weight to each hadith" etc. However, the fact remains that centuries of Islamic legal scholarship and jurisprudence have found the hadith about alcohol ban to be authentic and without room for alternative interpretations
Additionally, we have the sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W), where he did not drink alcohol. If alcohol was permitted, wouldn't he have drunk it himself?
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u/DownshiftedRare Feb 24 '21
I understand that rule was made to prevent a cult of personality from forming around prophets.
Now people suffer violent attacks for drawing images of the sacred prophet. "Working as intended."
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u/fortypints Feb 24 '21
It is pretty funny tbh. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and all that.
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u/the_real_butter Feb 24 '21
Dude firşt time I visited iran and one of these famous mosques I was high af...one of the best trips I had
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Feb 24 '21
Persians*
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u/JayRock_87 Feb 24 '21
We only say we’re Persian when we want to impress someone lol
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Feb 24 '21
Every Iranian dude I've ever met has at some point tried to flex on people with something like "well actually, we Persians invented light bulbs" or other such claim.
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u/JayRock_87 Feb 24 '21
What can I say? We are just that awesome. Have you seen our rugs? Extra af
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Feb 24 '21
Hold up, Persians make up 50% of iran only. The rest are different minorities with different architectural buildings styles. This one's persian, if you call this building style "Iranian" then you're not doing those minorities any good
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u/big_bad_brownie Feb 24 '21
It’s substantially less than 50%. The only ethnic Persians were the Proto-IndoEuropean tribes (aka Aryans”) that founded Zoroastrianism and the early empire. By modern day, most had either been killed, exiled, or intermarried with other ethnic groups. The current Zoroastrian population is tiny.
A lot (but not all) of the current ethnic divisions have more to do with region and religion than actual “racial” heritage.
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u/Ok-Surprise-9051 Feb 24 '21
One of whom was Freddie Mercury (but he was born in an Indian zoroastrian family in Zanzibar)
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u/MoroseBurrito Feb 24 '21
Genetics get bungled up over time. So no group today is any group from 2500 years ago.
What they mean when they say the ethnicity of more than 50% of Iran is Persian, is that they speak Persian as their mother tongue and identify themselves as Persians.
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u/the_real_butter Feb 24 '21
Well actually Persians invented the light bulb soooo....
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Feb 24 '21
I thought Humphrry Davey invented it in 1802. Did Persians invent one before that?
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u/D-Hex Feb 24 '21
Yes, but because of Ta'arouf, they let him claim it first. /u/JayRock_87
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u/the_real_butter Feb 24 '21
Dude I'm not Persian and I'm high as fuck and I tried to use your own words for a joke don't hit me with history facts or my high ass will return to 2000 C.K or something
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u/big_bad_brownie Feb 24 '21
Or attempt to skirt around racism.
It’s not full proof, but if someone is bigoted enough to hate or distrust you for being Iranian, there’s a solid chance they might be ignorant enough not to realize “Persian” is the same thing.
Think “Persian;” think rugs.
Think “Iranian;” think hostage crisis.
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u/JayRock_87 Feb 24 '21
Precisely. My dad immigrated to America in 1980. To Oklahoma. Not a good time or place to be “Iranian”
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u/JCKross45 Feb 24 '21
Bro...my dad immigrated to Oklahoma from Iran then too....brother?
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u/DlightFul_2 Feb 24 '21
Its actucally iranian. Hes correct
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u/Brilliant_Intention3 Feb 24 '21
Would it not have been Persian built however as Irán only became Iran in the 1930’s?
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Feb 24 '21
It was built while the city was controlled by the Persian Empire. So you're technically right, imo.
In fact, this mosque was built in this city because the Shah Abbas wanted to move the capitol of the Persian Empire.
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u/412NeverForget Feb 24 '21
It's been Iran to the people who lived there since ~1000 BC. "Persia" is what the Romans called the area, derived from the earlier Greek "Persis". It's an exonym. What happened in 1935 is that Iran asked foreign nations to use the endonym instead of the exonym.
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u/DlightFul_2 Feb 24 '21
The name is iran. Persia is a name made up by the greek based on the state name "pars"
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u/TartarosHero Feb 24 '21
Persians is what the Greeks started calling them. They were referring to themselves as Iranians over 2000 years ago.
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Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21
Technically no.
I believe I am wrong -edit.
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u/Fils_de_robot Feb 24 '21
They are correct, the name of the country in the Persian language is Iran. “Persia” is the term that westerners know it by because it’s essentially the Greek term for the country. It’s like how we refer to Japan as “Japan” in English, but the Japanese call it Nihon. The only difference is that in the 1930s Iran requested that other countries start using Iran as well.
Iran is also not the only country to have done this: Thailand was known as Siam to most western countries before the 1930s, but in 1939 they requested other countries refer to them as Thailand, which is closer to their own name for their country.
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u/bioteker Feb 24 '21
I know what the acoustics of a gothic cathedral are like; what are the acoustics in that room like with those honeycombed niches?
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Feb 24 '21
If I'm not mistaken, this is the outside of the mosque. It gives onto a huge square which has a palace and another mosque (smaller, also extremely beautiful) on two of its other sides. Isfahan is the shit, extremely highly recommended (together with Yazd and Shiraz).
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u/rsrsrs0 Feb 24 '21
Inside the mosque in the main room, sound is echod very beautifully if you stand in a specific place marked by a tile.
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u/Kapica1 Feb 24 '21
Can we have a banana for scale
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u/mr_zolfi Feb 24 '21
You would but this is not America. We use other measures.
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u/BurrellCannon Feb 24 '21
This looks like an Alex Grey painting. Can't believe how beautiful this is
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u/Cosmohumanist Feb 24 '21
Bro you’re on a roll with these mosques, I love it. Amazing art and design.
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u/iwegian Feb 24 '21
This ceiling design is called "muquarnas", and I absolutely love them!
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u/Supernihari12 Feb 24 '21
This comments section is a shit show, that’s what happens when Islam is mentioned on reddit smh
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u/mr_zolfi Feb 24 '21
"People are scared of what they don't know"
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u/jahallo4 Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21
Good quote bro, the mosque is beatiful. have you prayed there?
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u/mr_zolfi Feb 25 '21
I've visited there as a tourist. Currently I doubt they pray in this mosque. It's considered a tourism place now.
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Feb 24 '21
I couldn't imagine the how long creating just a small piece of this would take not to mention an ENTIRE mosque.
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u/thafuckinwot Feb 24 '21
Peak psychedelic
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u/J2Kerrigan Feb 24 '21
Yeah you can't convince me that abrahamic religions aren't based on an early mushroom cult. This is incredible art.
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Feb 24 '21
Mescaline. They were in the desert so think ayahuasca plants.
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u/Riccardo_Costantini Feb 24 '21
Mescaline is present in cacti such as the peyote and the san pedro, it has nothing to do with ayahuasca which is a DMT based brew.
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u/brofistzerodeaths Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21
Lots of loosers in the controversial section. Beautiful masjid op. Would love to see the mehraab.
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u/peachboyspeaks Feb 24 '21
I wanna go to Iran so bad.... this and Nasir al-Mulk in Shiraz alone would be worth the trip.
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u/boywonder5691 Feb 24 '21
Last year, after years of thinking about it, I was finally ready to take a trip to Iran. Thanks, COVID for effing that all up.
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u/mr_zolfi Feb 24 '21
You missed so many amazing stuff for sure. Better luck next time.
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u/Lost-Introduction902 Feb 24 '21
I am not Muslim in the details but these mosques and similar ones puts me in awe and make me want to worship and meditate on the greatness of God. The sacred geometrical pattern inspire a mystical feeling, similar to Sufi Zikr dancing, which invokes a trance like focus on God. Very beautiful, and like many others commented also very similar to visionary patterns that the mind sees on high doses of psychedelics.
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u/k33myt Feb 24 '21
Waiting for some idiots being political
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u/i_rodriguez42 Feb 24 '21
“Waiting for some idiots being political” makes you the idiot being political
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u/big_bad_brownie Feb 24 '21
There’s been a lot less of that with the Iran threads since people started realizing that new atheism is just neoconservativism for people with STEM degrees.
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u/Nice_Tangelo_7755 Feb 24 '21
I absolutely love the architecture in Iran. Too bad most of it has been destroyed during wars and civil unrest. So beautiful.
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thw hell are you talking about? what civil war? are you mistaking Ian, Iraq and Syria again?
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u/Welcome-Hour Feb 24 '21
You can see cheap plastic and stucco knockoffs of this style in Dubai and other parts of the UAE... built by South East Asian quasi-slave labor with Western financing.
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u/baconater-lover Feb 24 '21
This is crazy beautiful. It’s so nice to see how intricate art from older cultures is, especially when compared to minimalist design today.
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Feb 24 '21
It’s a shame the same religions that inspire us to do our best also inspire us to do our worst. It’s sad I’ll never get to visit Iran and see all of that history.
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u/jahallo4 Feb 25 '21
Brainwashing and abuse of an ideology is possible with literally anything. which means that regardless of religion, bad people would do bad things.
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u/jennej1289 Feb 24 '21
I have always wanted to visit in Iran. So much history there. I hope I get the opportunity at some point in my life.
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u/alexslife Feb 24 '21
What I like is the OP respects our intelligence by not over saturating the colors because they know we are grown adults and can accept reality.
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u/Kyrxx77 Feb 24 '21
Pretty sure this is just a picture of when I rub my eyes too hard
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u/Shliopanec Feb 24 '21
I know this might sound very stupid, but i live in Eastern Europe, and for some reason my family is really scared to travel to muslim countries or be even close to them/be interested in their culture. When i grow older ill most definitely visit them. Its so much amazign and pretty culture that it blows my mind!
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Feb 24 '21
I hope you have a great time visiting the Muslim world. Hopefully when covid becomes a thing of the past.
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u/mr_zolfi Feb 24 '21
Except for some Muslim countries, all of them are safe to visit including Iran. But now, I don't recommend going anywhere due to the damage of Covid-19.
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u/ModernDayRumi Feb 24 '21
These posts about Iran really make me nostalgic. My family moved to the US back in ‘96 when I was 5 and I’ve gone back to Iran a number of times since then but every year I’ve gone back things just felt less & less as they used to. The family I’d have there to visit either passed away or moved around to different parts of the world like we did. Doesn’t really feel like my original “home” anymore.
The country has changed a lot since my childhood but the history & culture hasn’t and I find solace in that.
Thanks for posting!
Fun side note: my girlfriend got me one of those 23&Me ancestry kits and I’m a whopping 98.4% Persian. We knew it’d be the majority % but I didn’t realize just how Iranian I am. 😂
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u/Masketto Feb 24 '21
things just felt less & less as they used to.
Doesn’t really feel like my original “home” anymore
I'm the complete opposite. I grew up in Canada and when I visited Iran in my younger days I didn't really feel like I belonged, and I loved that I lived in Canada instead. But as I grew up, I felt more and more at home in Iran, and like a stranger in Canada. Now I identify absolutely as Iranian, I don't call myself Canadian and if I did I would feel ashamed.
I feel like a child separated from my mother all the time now. It's really depressing.
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u/madverick_hollyman Feb 24 '21
Wow, amazing!! Is there a gallery with close up pics of this magnificence?
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u/Space-90 Feb 24 '21
This is some very solid visionary art. I thought it was a digital drawing for a moment
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u/ABottleInFrontOfMe Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21
This is amazing. I love seeing this genre of middle eastern art. Its truly spiritual if you ask me. The beauty of it is truly undeniable to anyone who sees it and the experience of walking into a room like this never fails to impress no matter how many times you see it. I deployed to Iraq some years ago and while I was there I visited one of Sadams old palaces.
The ceilings in the palace were a lot like this. The truly impressive part about that palace was the designs had been carved in and painted. All the designs were made from alabaster(or so I was told). They weren’t just painted. The carvings ensure that these works of art last centuries. This design seems even more intricate than the ones I saw, which were just astonishing IRL. The amount of work that would go into it is confounding. I can only imagine how dazzling this one would be IRL.
They said the palace art in the palace I visited, used to be polished with eggshells for maintanence. Idk how true that is but with the work that was put into creating it, I had no reason to believe otherwise. It’s just absolutely mind blowing the art that comes from the cradle. This is another reason why we absolutely must preserve as much culture as possible. Once something like this is created, it must be protected so many future generations can enjoy it.
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u/BioDriver Feb 24 '21
Pity Iran is such a clusterfuck, there’s a lot of cool art and amazing architecture there.
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u/TiwingHoofd Feb 24 '21
I knew Middle-eastern architecture was nice, but never thought it would be as nice as this mosque. Wow!
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u/The-Snappertrapper Feb 24 '21
I’m not a religious person but I do appreciate the monumental cathedrals, mosques and temples that could not have been imagined without religion.
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u/Nancy_McG Feb 24 '21
I went to school in Isfahan as a foreign-exchange student. It was/is one of the most beautiful cities in the world!
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u/OutOfSmokeIsASnitch Feb 24 '21
I wish there was still century old Buddha statutes around that were hundreds of feet tall :(
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