Clearing an already high bar Iran has plenty of mosques and almost all of them are pretty spectacular but by the time we got to the Jami (or Jameh) Mosque in Yazd we'd only seen two other mosques, neither of which was particularly typical of the Persian architectural style. The first had been the massive and as yet unfinished mausoleum to Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran which had resembled a concrete abatoir crossed with a Carpet Warehouse and the second was a tiny old and rather decrepit mosque to the Twelve Imams which we'd visited in Yazd that morning was largely undecorated. Neither had ...
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