Imamzadeh Yahya

Imamzadeh Yahya امامزاده یحیی
Imamzadeh Yahya
Basic information
Location	Varamin, Tehran, Iran
Affiliation	Islam
Province	Tehran Province
Architectural type	Azeri

Imamzadeh Yahya (Persian: امامزاده یحیی‎‎ – Emamzadeh Yahya) is an Imamzadeh buried in Varamin, Iran.

Originally part of a larger shrine complex including an octagonal tomb tower and entrance portal, the remaining naked tomb shrine is victim of over one hundred years of looting. Jane Dieulafoy documented her visit there in 1881; the luster tiles and faience mihrab that she described no longer decorate the walls but may be those identified in several private collections.

The external mass of the shrine is a square, surrounded by lower, vaulted rooms that were added at a later date. The stepped dome is reached by an octagonal mass. This form protrudes from the interior, which is octagonal with deep, angled niches built into four of the sides. Above the bare dado that once held luster tilework, there remains a plaster inscription frieze and areas of carved plaster decoration. The squinches are filled with carved plaster muqarnas.^[1]

A set of 160 tiles of the tomb is now in British museum.^[2] and the tiles forming the gravestone are now in Hermitage museum in Moscow.^[3]

Gallery

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  Tile works now kept in Walters Museum

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  Tile works now kept in Walters Museum

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  Tile works now kept in Victoria and Albert Museum

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