بررسي تزئينات آجركاري در مناره خسروجرد سبزوار

Considering brickwork decorations in Sabzevarʹs Khosrowjerdʹs minaret

Decorations are an integral and major part of Islamic architecture, and perhaps there are few religious buildings with no decorations within them. Since the | second and third centuries AH on, gradually brick decorations started appearing in Iranian building and finally it reaches its climax in Seljukʹs era. In this era the best type of brickwork for construction as well as decoration on walls, coverings, ceilings , minerates and buildings was used. But an important point in this process is the incorporation of the sub-structures and decorations in the whole buildings so that decorations are no longer something separate from the building but rather something that helped the reinforcement of the buildings. In Khorasan district | there are many buildings utilizing the best types of brickwork decorations from the seljuk era. In this article the special decoration of one of the most beautiful | buildings from that era situated in Sabzevar will be studied.