Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)
Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 122
ruins. The most conspic-uous of these is the Ark, or citadel, which may be seen fromalmost every part of the town. This massive structure prob-ably occupies the same position as the old building whichYakut described seven hundred years ago as the Palace of theAmir, built of red brick artistically… … THE CITADEL AND THE BLUE MOSQUE 43 was the grand vizir of the Mongol ruler Ghazan Khan, at thebeginning of the fourteenth century, and built the mosquewhich once formed a part of the structure.^ The battlementsof the Ark rise more than a hundred feet in height, and thewalls are fully twenty feet in…
Zoroastrianism
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