Aladdin Tower

The Aladdin Tower, also known as the Aladole Tower and as Gunbad-i Ala al-Din (lit. 'Dome of Aladdin'), is a mausoleum and tower built over the tomb of its patron, located in the centre of Varamin, in the province of Tehran, Iran. The structure was completed in 688 AH (1289/1290 CE), during the Ilkhanid era. The mausoleum was added to the Iran National Heritage List on 6 January 1932 and is administered by the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran. The tomb tower of 'Ala ad-din was completed in 1289 CE during the Ilkhanid era and is located to the north of Varamin, a small town 42 kilometres (26 mi) south of Tehran. It continues a well-established Iranian tradition of funerary architecture in the form of a tomb tower, its earliest precedent being the Seluk monument Gunbad-i Qabus, completed in 1006 CE. This type of mausoleum began as a tall cylinder with a canonical roof, marking, through sheer verticality, the grave of its patron (often a minor dynast, amir, or isfahasalar). The tomb tower puts more emphasis on the exterior, as opposed to the interior, of the sacred space, in contrast to the domed square mausoleum, the other predominant type of mausoleum in Iran. The tomb is a cylindrical triacontadigonal tower in the inside and a thirty-two right-angled triangular flanges or columns on the outside. Made of high-quality baked bricks assembled in a hazarbaf (decorative brickwork, literally meaning "thousand weaving") decorative pattern, the flanges ascend from the plinth until they meet the cornice that supports the conical roof with corbelled groin arches. Between the upper end of the flanges and the small groin arches above them runs an inscription band paralleling the zigzag shape of the flanges. The cornice displays fine tile work alternating between unglazed and glazed terracotta in light blue. As with most tomb towers, the tomb tower of 'Ala ad-Din has a double-shell dome, conical on the exterior and spherical on the inside, above the circular interior plan. The structure is 26.71 metres (87.6 ft) high on the exterior and 16.11 metres (52.9 ft) inside. T

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