The Sardar Mosque (; ), variously spelled as the Saat Mosque, the Saatlu Mosque, and the Saatloo Mosque, is a

Shi'ite Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political successor (caliph) and as the spiritual leader of the Muslim community (imam). However, his right is understood to ...

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, located on Imam Street, near the Menareh Mosque, in

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, in the province of

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. The mosque was commenced in CE, during the

Qajar era The Guarded Domains of Iran, alternatively the Sublime State of Iran and commonly called Qajar Iran, Qajar Persia or the Qajar Empire, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic peoples, Turkic origin,Cyrus G ...

and completed in 1912 CE, during the

Pahlavi era The Imperial State of Iran, officially known as the Imperial State of Persia until 1935, and commonly referred to as Pahlavi Iran, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty. The Pahlavi dynasty was created in 1925 and lasted ...

. The mosque was added to the

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on 1 July 1996, administered by the

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The mosque was constructed during the Qajar period. In 1951 CE, a huge clock was affixed on the entrance and was then reputedly known as the Sa'atloo Mosque. It has interesting architectural design which was constructed of brick during the Qajar period. The mosque is in two sections, the basement and a long hall. The brick mosque has a

shabestan A shabestan or shabistan (; is an underground space that can be usually found in traditional architecture of mosques, houses, and schools in ancient Iran. These spaces were usually used during summers and could be ventilated by windcatchers and ...

with twelve stone octagonal decorated pillars. The walls of the shabestan are covered in green tiles. There is a border of pink, white, blue, yellow and green colored tiles with floral motifs. A small entrance connects the large Shabistan to a smaller one that has no ornate decorations. There is a small mehrab with colorful tilework and

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ic inscriptions on the southern part of the shabastan. The other designs and beauty of this mosque, the rainbow tiles which are designed with blue, pink, green, white and brown color and Ayat-Al-Korsi is written inside one of the margins around the mehrab.

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SardAr m. 02.JPG, The mosque clocktower SardAr m.JPG,

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